enlarge This file photo shows a potential buyer admiring one of the most important Chinese modern oil painting "Put Down Your Whip" by Xu Beihong during a spring sales preview by auction house Sothebys in Hong Kong. A rare painting by Xu Beihong was to go under the hammer in Hong Kong on Saturday.//AFP
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YouTube offers to 'educate' Thai authorities about site
YouTube said Saturday it has offered to "educate" Thai authorities about how the popular video-sharing service works in the hope of ending a ban on the site over videos mocking Thailand's revered king.
Doubts rise over secret CDC voting on charter
The Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) will go ahead with its planned closed-door meeting and secret vote on some 20 divisive issues for the new charter on Tuesday, committee chairman Prasong Soonsiri said yesterday.
NDWC to sound-test Phuket towers
The National Disaster Warning Centre (NDWC) has announced that at about 9am each day - starting today - it will audibly test its 79 tsunami-warning towers along the Andaman Sea coast.
TRT convinced another coup on the way
The Thai Rak Thai Party will launch a nationwide campaign against another possible coup, saying that its political analysts have found evidence that clearly supports the theory that one will take place.
Is the Thai government right to protest Cambodia's appointment of Thaksin as its economic adviser by recalling Thai ambassador and suspending all cooperations?