SUDAN: Preparing vegetables in a quiet Khartoum neighbourhood, pharmacist Omer Eltigani hopes not just to serve up the dish an aunt is teaching him, but also the first cookbook to bring Sudanese cuisine to the rest of the world.
PHUKET: A large number of Thalang residents on Thursday (Feb 4) voted in favour of two flyover being built on Thepkassattri Rd despite previous objections to the projects.
BANGKOK: Driving to a Buddhist temple on the northern fringes of Bangkok, beauty salon owner Natsuda Jantaptim is running through her youngest daughter’s likes and dislikes.
RUGBY: France and Italy kick-off the Six Nations today (Feb 6) under a massive security operation as international sport returns to Paris’s Stade de France for the first time since suicide bombers targeted the city on November 13.
PHUKET: The Ministry of Tourism is asking for those from the private sector to join the tourism registrar committee to help them crack down on illegal nominees on the island.
FOOTBALL: Jose Mourinho’s representatives have held talks with Manchester United about replacing Louis van Gaal as manager of the Premier League club, according to reports yesterday (Feb 5).
UNITED KINGDOM: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange yesterday (Feb 5) urged Britain and Sweden to let him walk free from the embassy of Ecuador in London after a UN panel found that the anti-secrecy campaigner had been “arbitrarily detained”.
TAIWAN: A 10-month-old baby was among three dead after a 16-storey tower block was toppled by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in southern Taiwan today (Feb 6), with rescuers battling to free residents still trapped inside.
PHUKET: A German man and woman were taken to hospital this morning (Feb 5) after the motorbike they were riding crashed into the back of the tour bus in Rawai.