New Cold War tests Thai choices
A new Cold War is emerging as the United States and China compete from trade and finance to outer space, scholars and senior journalists have warned, urging Thailand not to pick sides too soon.
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Boxer Somluck cleared of girl's rape, gets 2 years for lewd abduction
KHON KAEN – The Appeal Court on Tuesday cleared Olympic medallist boxer Somluck Kamsing of attempted rape, but sentenced him to two years in prison for abducting a minor for lewd purpose.
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French protests seen threatening Thai tourism
Tourism operators are worried about the mass protests in France, which could eventually affect its economy and further weaken inbound travel to Thailand from Europe, already affected by the persistent unrest in the Middle East.
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It took me longer than I'd like to admit to realise something obvious about Star Wars Zero Company. The fate of its eponymous crew – short of cash, betrayed by the shifting sands of circumstance in a tumultuous wider world, scrambling to just about get the job over the line – is really a lot like that of its developers at Bit Reactor. Furloughed for about a month before the game was released, those staff have clearly hustled and scrapped and fought to the last. And so Zero Company the game bears the signs of its development. In places it feels a little patched together, a little under-ready, a game that launched into the world like a roguish pilot might launch a half-repaired starfighter. The windscreen's rattling, warning lights are flashing, one particularly hirsute engineer is deeply unimpressed at the decision to take off, and nobody knows where that ominous groaning noise is coming from. But somehow she's up. And in the end that's all that counts. Read more
Good news, people who figure they are going to die of old age before they get another Dino Crisis! Good news also, people who can't get enough throwback immersive sims! Even as Capcom forge ahead with their Resident Evil remake ouroboros, plucky Momentum Games and horror publishers Black Lantern Collective are releasing Athanasia – a first-person homage to both Dino Crisis and System Shock, in which you play intrepid researcher Carmen Flores, who has been sent to an ominous abandoned scientific facility in South America.
One of these days, I'm going to turf up to a collapsing laboratory complex in a game and discover nothing but stationery, old rubber gloves, and unfiled expense claims. I imagine a lot of laboratories are abandoned not due to (for example) gene-modded dilophosaurus outbreaks, but because the funders got cold feet long before Project X reached the prototyping stage. But that day is not this day. Today, there are dinosaurs! Argh, my face and/or intestines! Here's a trailer. Read more
Japan just launched an epic mission to Mars' moons that could make history as the first spacecraft to return to Earth from the Red Planet — and it plans to come back with samples onboard.
Source: www.space.com
