Thai PM Srettha to miss ASEAN Summit

Thailand’s new Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin/ Reuters BANGKOK: Thailand’s new Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin will miss a regional meeting of Asia’s leaders in Jakarta next week, the foreign ministry said on Sunday.Srettha won a parliamentary vote to become prime minister last month and his cabinet was endorsed by the king on Saturday. The prime minister…

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A woman paid about £80 for a Dior bag in a Cotswolds charity shop without knowing if it was genuine; experts identified it as a rare 2003 Koi Saddle Bag, and it later sold for £7,870 | World News

A woman paid about £80 for a Dior bag in a Cotswolds charity shop without knowing if it was genuine; experts identified it as a rare 2003 Koi Saddle Bag, and it later sold for £7,870/Image: Kinghams Auctioneers A Dior handbag bought for about £80 in a Cotswolds charity shop has sold for £7,870 at…

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Meet Lillie: The 7-year-old British student who copied a puffer fish’s trick to design a jacket that can puff up | World News

Puffy Coat drawing. Image Credit: Little Inventors A 7-year-old British student has seen her ocean-inspired idea move from a child’s drawing towards a real prototype. Lillie’s Puffy Coat was one of four inventions selected from hundreds of entries in the Little Inventors programme, supported by Dogger Bank Wind Farm and South Tyneside Council. Inspired by…

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Exchanged views on issues of common concern’: Senior US, China diplomats hold phone call

US deputy secretary of state Christopher Landau (left), Chinese foreignj minister Wang Yi (AP) Beijing and Washington sustained high-level engagement on Thursday through a call between senior diplomats, indicating that both sides are keeping diplomatic channels open after reaching a trade truce earlier this month. US deputy secretary of state Christopher Landau and China’s executive…

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In 2015, a Canadian aunt helped launch a hockey fundraiser inspired by her nephew’s cancer diagnosis; an event that raised C$10,000 in its first year went on to collect over C$1 million across a decade

For Andernacht, the tournament has become an example of what can happen when people turn personal hardship into collective action. A hockey tournament born from a family cancer diagnosis has grown into a decade-long fundraising effort, turning a group of friends, a few teams and a shared love of the game into a million-dollar community…

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