Search results for ‘Thailand’
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Pizza adverts beckon for England (but no lynch mob)
England’s inability to convert penalties has become a national phobia, writes John Anderson, but Roy Hodgson’s men leave Poland and Ukraine without the usual media lynch mob waiting at home.
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‘Oil shock’ hitting demand, says former Tesco boss
With Tesco reporting a 1.5 decline in sales, former chief executive Sir Terry Leahy tells Channel 4 News a doubling in the price of oil has hit UK consumers “more than anything else”.
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Aung San Suu Kyi welcomed by Thai crowds
Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi receives a rapturous reception in Thailand by crowds celebrating her first trip outside Myanmar in nearly a quarter of a century.
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Briton faces death penalty over Bali drugs ‘smuggling’
A British housewife could face the death penalty after being arrested in Bali over a £1.6m cocaine haul.
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£1bn revamp for Tesco, but will customers buy it?
Britain’s biggest retailer has unveiled its new strategy to ‘put the love back in’ for customers. But can Tesco prove it can provide value for money, and a more positive shopping experience too?
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Indonesian tsunami warning lifted
A tsunami warning for the Indian Ocean, issued after a massive 8.7 magnitude earthquake off the western coast of Indonesia this morning, has been lifted.
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Fears grow over drug-resistant malaria strain
Evidence suggests the great killer malaria is developing greater resistance, as Channel 4 News hears it could mean many more cases across south east Asia.
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Burma: where are all the cops?
Imagine our surprise on arrival at Rangoon’s airport, when a plain clothes operative came back with our press cards and passports with a watery smile and a (barely-audible) ‘welcome to Myanmar’
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Antibiotics warning from WHO chief
The World Health Organisation is warning that the overuse of antibiotics means that in the near future something as simple as a scratched knee or a sore throat could kill, writes Victoria Macdonald.
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Will Bangkok bombings truth ever emerge?
Channel 4 News Asia Correspondent John Sparks asks what Thailand has to gain from proving the innocence or guilt of the Iranian state following the Bangkok bombings?
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Face to face with a terrorism suspect
John Sparks on developments in Thailand’s international terrorism saga.
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'When terror isn't terrorism'
Thailand’s politicians are struggling to explain to its public why it unwittingly played host to a botched bombing, writes Jon Sparks.
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Iran behind Thai bombings, says Israel
An Iranian man has been badly wounded after a bungled bombing in Thailand. Israel’s defence minster described it as an attempted terrorist attack.
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Israel blames Iran for attack on embassy in Delhi
After bombers attacked staff at Israeli embassies in India and Georgia, injuring four people, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of being involved.
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Tears and fears: the death of Kim Jong-il
Channel 4 News Asia Correspondent John Sparks blogs on the North Koreans’ response to the death of their ‘dear leader’, Kim Jong-il