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CHON BURI: An injured Russian woman flagged down a motorist and asked for help after she was attacked in Bang Lamung district, near Pattaya, on Wednesday night, police said yesterday. Elena Zyalkova, 38, was found in a confused and distressed state walking on the road heading towards Mab Prachan reservoir in tambon Nong Prue around 9.30pm, police said. Police and rescue workers called to the scene said Ms Zyalkova, who was wearing a jogging suit, had head injuries, bruises to her neck and abrasions all over her body. When asked about the injuries she said she could not remember what happened. Police later found a blood trail leading 10 metres into woodland beside the road, along with a pair of running shoes and a mobile phone, both hers. Motorist Kosol Chomchuen, 36, told police he was going home when he came across the woman walking on the road calling for help. She was bleeding, so he immediately called police. The injured woman was taken to Bang Lamung Hospital. Local … [Read more...] about Russian woman presents cops with attack mystery

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 5 SLIDELL, La. - Tuesdays she asked for the needle in her left arm, and one afternoon in late April, Christina Seal, 41, arrived at the clinic after work. The parking lot was almost full, as usual. She had been giving plasma for nearly six months, and she had a routine locked in place. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Two Sam's Club protein shakes and an iron supplement a day to keep herself serviceable. Afterward, vitamin E oil on her skin to prevent needle scars. The routine had helped tame into normalcy what at first had felt so bizarre. "I never thought I would be in a position where I would have to sell my plasma to feed my children," she would say later. This was where inflation had driven Seal. A month earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics had announced that prices had risen 8.5% over the past year, the largest annual jump since December 1981. Fuel, food and housing costs … [Read more...] about A Louisiana teacher seeks to survive inflation, one plasma donation at a time

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 3 Miriam Makeba was one of Africa's first global stars. Her debut in Lionel Rogosin's "Come Back, Africa" in 1959 garnered critical acclaim and top honors at the Venice Film Festival and brought worldwide attention to her and her native South Africa. Her eponymous release a year later also allowed Makeba to push African identity to the forefront of world music, from donning natural hairstyles to popularizing Xhosa with her rendition of "Qongqothwane (The Click Song)." Widely known as "Mama Africa," she made music to directly tackle the plight of Black South Africans. As her political activism grew (she made an impassioned speech before the United Nations in 1963), Makeba continued to use her stardom as a platform to call out injustice against Black people everywhere. This, however, came at a considerable price. Not only was she exiled from South Africa until apartheid's dissolution, but a … [Read more...] about Somi pays tribute to Miriam Makeba, on album and on stage

For almost three months, President Joe Biden and his top foreign policy aides have been immersed in the Russian war in Ukraine, wrestling with how to punish Moscow and bolster the beleaguered Ukrainians. On Thursday, Biden embarks on his first trip to Asia, hoping to reassure Asian allies that the United States is not too preoccupied with Ukraine to take a leading role in blunting the influence of China. Biden has called China America's chief global competitor. As the war in Ukraine settles into what may be a long slog, Biden is seeking to show that his administration can multitask when it comes to leading coalitions against aggressive superpowers. Biden lands in South Korea on Friday and heads to Japan three days later. "I think both countries are naturally worried - not because they doubt U.S. desire or U.S. aspiration, but more about the bandwidth the U.S. really has," said Yun Sun, co-director of the East Asia Program at the Stimson Center, a foreign affairs think tank. … [Read more...] about Biden, after months focused on Ukraine, makes first trip to Asia

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Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, centre, and leaders from the public and private sectors pose for a photograph at the Better Thailand Open Dialogue seminar. The two-day seminar on May 19-20 presents an opportunity to address key issues for Thailand's economic development. Nutthawat Wicheanbut Thailand's economic recovery is relatively slower than that of its Asean peers because the domestic economic structure in the country is reliant on conventional industries. Danucha Pichayanan, secretary-general of the National Economic and Social Development Council, was speaking on Thursday at the opening of the two-day Better Thailand Open Dialogue. The event is co-hosted by the Chulalongkorn University Engineering Alumni Association, Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy Alumni Association, and Economics Alumni Association, in collaboration with the Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry, and Banking. The forum allows leaders from the public and private sectors to share ideas … [Read more...] about Shift in economic structure urged