91 - 100 of 106 results for "dawei project"

  1. 91. news | 22 May 2013

    Cabinet diverts housing fund for landless farmers

    PMOVE PROTEST

    By Patsara Jikkham, Newspaper section: News

    » The cabinet yesterday agreed to divert 167 million baht in budget money from the low-cost Baan Mankong housing project to buy about 800 rai of land as temporary compensation for landless farmers now protesting in Bangkok...

  2. 92. news | 10 May 2013

    Ang Lee excited about TV directing debut with 'Tyrant'

    By AFP

    » Oscar-winning Taiwanese-American director Ang Lee said Thursday he is excited to be working on his first TV project "Tyrant", but dismissed reports he would stay away from movies to focus on television.

  3. 93. news | 11 Apr 2013

    'No obstacle' to Laos-China rail link

    By dpa

    » There are "no obstacles" to Laos' planned high-speed rail link from China, the country's transport minister was quoted as saying Thursday, days after the Asian Development Bank called the project "unaffordable" f...

  4. 94. news | 08 Apr 2013

    Taiwan man's tree-top protest goes into 11th day

    By AFP

    » A Taiwanese activist's unusual tree-top protest went into its 11th day Sunday and Pan Han-chiang vowed to continue until a local council drops a controversial development project.

  5. 95. news | 05 Apr 2013

    Malala, Angelina fund Pakistan school project

    By AFP

    » A fund set up by Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, is to send 40 girls to school in her home region with the support of US actress Angelina Jolie...

  6. 96. news | 09 Apr 2013

    Swiss Kempinski ditches N.Korea 'Hotel of Doom' project

    By AFP

    » The Swiss luxury hotel chain Kempinski said on Tuesday that it was dropping plans to open a huge pyramid-shaped hotel that has stood half-built for decades in North Korea amid escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula.

  7. 97. tech | 30 Apr 2013

    World's first web page recreated 20 years on

    By AFP

    » The world's first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored for today's Internet browsers as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the Web, organisers said on Tuesday.

  8. 98. opinion | 08 Apr 2013

    Stuck on the tiger's back

    EDITORIAL

    Newspaper section: News

    » The government's programme to buy rice from farmers is a political dream and a practical, economic nightmare. Paying premium, fixed prices for paddy seemed like a good idea at the time. But the Pheu Thai government n...

  9. 99. opinion | 20 May 2013

    Government shows its intractability

    EDITORIAL

    Newspaper section: News

    » When Deputy Prime Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi referred to criticism of his anti-flood schemes as "garbage", it was - pardon the expression - a watershed. He brought down a curtain between him and citizens seeking hones...

  10. 100. news | 14 May 2013

    Small schools unite to survive

    » AYUTTHAYA - Given a choice to unite or die, three small schools in tambon Thai Noi of Bang Ban district have launched a programme to join classes, improve education quality and survive the education ministry's projec...

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