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WASHINGTON – The United States Monday announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, a calibrated rebuke of China’s human rights record that stops short of preventing US athletes from competing. The decision comes after Washington …

Yuriko Koike, Tokyo’s first woman governor, wants Thais to see a “new” version of Japan’s capital city, once it is ready to receive visitors, forging people-to-people ties between both countries. Speaking virtually during the Bangkok Post International…

SET-listed retail and property developer Central Pattana (CPN) plans to spend 3 billion baht to develop six property projects next year. Kree Dejchai, executive vice-president for residential business at CPN, said the company wants to develop four cond…

LONDON: Existing Covid-19 inoculations will struggle against the fast-spreading Omicron variant, the head of vaccine manufacturer Moderna warned Tuesday, as countries ramp up vaccination programmes and impose further restrictions in an effort to curb g…

BEIJING: China warned Tuesday that the fast-spreading Omicron Covid-19 variant would cause challenges in hosting next February’s Winter Olympics in Beijing. Although China has largely quashed the coronavirus within its borders through travel restrictio…

Stunning New Senior School Opens at Shrewsbury, RiversideTHAILAND’S LEADING INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL Shrewsbury International School Bangkok Riverside has set a new benchmark with its ambitious 1.1 billion Thai baht senior school. The culmination of Projec…

TOKYO – The new-look European Tour will make its first foray into the lucrative Japan golf market in 2022 after adding the ISPS Handa Championship to next year’s recently announced schedule. The rebranded DP World Tour will make Japan the 51st country …

BEIJING: China on Tuesday said the controversy surrounding Peng Shuai was being “maliciously” hyped up, after the Chinese tennis star made sexual assault claims against one of the nation’s most powerful politicians. Peng, a Wimbledon and French Open do…

At the start of 2021, UOB’s outlook for the regional economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic hinged on three things — the wide availability of vaccines, aggressive fiscal stimulus and accommodative monetary policies. As the world approaches a thir…

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden said Thursday he was considering a US diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, in what would be an attempt to show toughness over China’s rights abuses without impacting US athletes. That is “something we a…