Month: July 2022

Thailand’s hotels, businesses and private hospitals should refrain from offering big discounts to lure tourists and focus instead on raising the country’s value as a premium travel destination, government ministers said on Monday.

The UK government should undertake a net zero tax review to establish how the tax system can best support the transition to net zero, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has recommended in a report to parliament.

The movie is set to be Malaysia’s highest-grossing film, and has even drawn the attention of royalty like the influential Sultan of Selangor.

The book delves into Onghokham’s struggle to come to terms with his sexuality, his advocacy of Chinese assimilation in Indonesia, and his love for Javanese culture.

Commentators complain that ‘Ticket to Paradise’ was filmed in Australia, and criticise casting of mixed-race actor amid accusations of ‘perpetuating colonial gaze’.

Mahathir said in 2004 that Australia could not join an East Asian diplomatic group because ‘they are Europeans, they cannot be Asians’; now, soon after Australian FM Penny Wong visited Malaysia, where she was born, he said all nations will be multiracial.

While the Kremlin has remained largely silent about the moves by Asian states to impose sanctions on Russia, analysts say the region is not ruling out the possibility of a reprisal.

A Court of Appeal ruling confirming that affected parties cannot bring English private law actions against sewerage companies in relation to unauthorised discharges will allow the industry to focus on “improving the quality of our rivers and seas”, according to one legal expert.

One of the German government coalition partners, the liberal Free Democrats (FDP), has proposed lifting the 2017 ban on unconventional fracking in Germany in response to the current low level of gas reserves.

‘My presence here represents a new start for our countries’ relationship,’ Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said during a meeting with the French leader in Paris.