Air India flight evacuated at Suvarnabhumi after bomb scare

Air India flight evacuated at Suvarnabhumi after bomb scare: Passengers on an Air India flight were evacuated on an emergency slide at Bangkok’s main international airport late Wednesday following a false bomb threat, according to Thai authorities.

Hun Sen Reshuffle Cambodia

Hun Sen reveals plan to reshuffle cabinet next month

PHNOM PENH — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen revealed Thursday he has submitted a proposal to the National Assembly seeking to reshuffle some of his ministers including Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, who has been in the position since the 1990s.

17 Mar 2016 at 15:54

US President Barack Obama signed an order Wednesday implementing UN-backed sanctions on North Korea, amid a series of reprisals from Pyongyang.

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama signed an order Wednesday implementing UN-backed sanctions on North Korea, amid a series of reprisals from Pyongyang.

US President Barack Obama signed an order implementing UN-backed sanctions on North Korea, amid a series of reprisals from Pyongyang

The White House said Obama had signed an executive order targeting the volatile hermit state's energy, financial and shipping assets.

The measures were agreed to at the United Nations in response to a January 6 nuclear test and February 7 ballistic missile launch.

"The order is not targeted at the people of North Korea, but rather is aimed at the government," said the document signed by Obama.

Among the entities targeted are the "Propaganda and Agitation Department" of the Workers' Party of Korea and mining firms that provide the regime with much-needed revenues.

The US Treasury Department estimates that coal revenues alone generate over $1 billion a year for the government of Kim Jong-Un.

In response to the UN sanctions and a US-South Korean drill, Kim has already ordered an upcoming nuclear warhead test and multiple ballistic missile launches.

US officials say the threats are concerning, but fit a pattern of sabre rattling by the regime.

On Wednesday, North Korea jailed a 21-year-old American student.

Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years' hard labor for stealing a propaganda banner from a hotel.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest accused Pyongyang of using US citizens as "pawns to pursue a political agenda" and called for his release.

"We strongly encourage the North Korean government to pardon him and grant him special amnesty and immediate release," Earnest said.

"The allegations for which this individual was arrested and imprisoned would not give rise to arrest or imprisonment in the United States or in just about any other country in the world."

In announcing the sentence, state news outlet KCNA said Warmbier had committed his offense "pursuant to the US government's hostile policy" toward North Korea.

Good to watch Democrat Bernie Sanders in the US and Labour Party Jeremy Corbin in the UK actually pushing a real and effective democratic socialist position. We in Australia will still have to wait for the present Labor Party Wannabe Bill Shorten to be trounced at the next election before the Australian Labor Party realises that it actually has to change, that there does have to be some serious blood-letting, and can therefore one day put someone into leadership who can actually...lead. I won't hold my breath. Bill spends an awful lot of time making sure his brighter blue contact lenses are in, and his skin is botox perfect, and his suits are appropriate, and his views are those espoused by each random poll before he actually says anything...we really can't wait for change that long. We can't just hang around waiting with baited breath for the unhappy past to re-emerge via Bill.

I see Cardinal Pell, the 3rd highest ranking Catholic on Earth now, and from Sydney, is just too sick to fly to Australia from the Vatican to answer questions regarding sexual abuse under his leadership of the Church here. Oh, how convenient a weak heart is...mind you, I never thought he had a heart anyway. Ruthless barbaric conscience-less cunt. He fits in well in the Vatican. He won't be coming home soon....and Heaven can wait.

"Rapacious Chinese Developer Sets Greedy Sights on Manunda Sewage Works." Indigenous groups complain re traditional ownershit.

"Rapacious Chinese Developer Sets Greedy Sights on Manunda Sewage Works."
Indigenous groups complain re ownership.

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Brief world news: China: China Superleague (Soccer) is now buying European players (UK & Spain) and Brazilian players, spending more on them than the English Premier League spends. Rationale: to meet the plans of the China President Mr Xi in having a football-worthy nation as soon as possible. Thailand: The opening up of Myanmar to a post-sanctions world means that Thailand's relative wealth, based upon under the counter oil and gas buying from Myanmar is basically over; with nothing to replace it in terms of making or keeping Thailand economy stable and efficient. Iran: 20 years of sanctions upon Iran have caused a remarkable period of innovation and creativity in Iran adding to the robustness of its economy and its strength for the future. With sanctions lifted, Iran will boom, but not in the nuclear way.