Catalan Parliament approved this Friday with 70 votes in favor, ten against and two blank votes the motion for a resolution that assumes the declaration of independence signed on 10 October by the independentist deputies and that affirms that “the Catalan Republic is constituted as an independent and sovereign state.” The proposal of Junts pel […]
BANGKOK, 27 October 2017 (NNT) – This morning the King of Thailand, His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn, presided over a ceremony to transfer the royal relics and royal ashes of the late King Rama IX from the Royal Crematorium to the Grand Palace. At approximately 8am, His Majesty led members of the royal family to […]
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha thanked the Thai people in Thailand and throughout the world for their spontaneous show of respect and loyalty for His Majesty the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej on the occasion of the Royal cremation ceremony on Thursday (Oct 26). He also thanked foreign dignitaries and the international community for joining the Thai […]
Sweden yesterday held a ceremony to honour HM the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who received the Knight of the Swedish Royal Order of the Seraphim on April 5, 1950. The order is the foremost honour in Sweden. The ceremony, traditionally held when a Knight of the Order dies, was held in Stockholm the same date […]
In a national outpouring of grief, Thais across the country turned up late on Thursday night to bid a tearful and final farewell to their beloved King Bhumibol Adulyadej in solemn, centuries-old royal ceremonies. At 10pm, His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun presided over the royal cremation for the late King at the royal crematorium […]
BANGKOK, 27 October 2017 (NNT) – The ASEAN Secretariat and other ASEAN organizations in Jakarta, Indonesia, have lowered their flags to half-mast in honor of His Majesty the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs was told by the Permanent Mission of Thailand to ASEAN that all ASEAN institutions in Indonesia […]
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev inked an executive order on Friday telling his government to prepare the Kazakh alphabet for a transition to Latin letters from Cyrillic ones by 2025. ALMATY (Sputnik) — “The government of Kazakhstan is to set up a national commission to change the Kazakh alphabet to Latin script; organize a gradual switch […]
India is investigating the whereabouts of dozens of its citizens who allegedly left for the Middle East to fight alongside Islamic State (IS), an official said Thursday, almost a week after U.S.-backed forces declared the “total liberation” of the terror outfit’s stronghold in Syria. The National Investigation Agency (NIA), India’s top counter-terror unit, has launched […]
