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.