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MENA Tour chief fires back as LIV Golf’s world ranking points plan goes up in smoke

LIV Golf looked to have finally secured world ranking points ahead of this week's event in Bangkok thanks to a 'strategic alliance' with the MENA Tour, but the application was rejected by the Official World Golf Rankings.

Daily Mirror

LIV Golf prize money: How much will the players earn in latest event?

Dustin Johnson’s 4 Aces have made it four victories in a row in the team event, while Cameron Smith was top of the players’ pile last time as the tour heads to Asia

The Independent UK

LIV Golf live stream: How to watch latest event in Jeddah

Dustin Johnson has already wrapped up the individual points race, but Jeddah is the final event before switching to the team finale in Florida

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Grief and shock over Thailand attack on 'tiny angels' at preschool

(Corrects spelling of in paragraph 7 to Uthai Sawan from Mutahi Sawant)

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Joji to perform first solo concert in Bangkok

Joji, aka The Artist Formerly Known as Filthy Frank and Pink Guy, will perform solo for the first time in Thailand, in December.

Bangkok Post

MENA Tour says golf rankings 'inaccurate' without LIV events

Bangkok (AFP) - Failure to award world-ranking points at the Saudi-backed LIV Golf event in Thailand starting on Friday renders the rankings "inaccurate", the MENA Tour said on Friday.

AFP

Thailand mourns children, others slain by ex-police officer

Friends hugged sobbing family members struggling with staggering loss in a rural Thailand community mourning the children and other victims slain by a fired police officer in the nation’s deadliest shooting rampage

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BMA aims to avoid flooding

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is stepping up efforts to prevent possible flooding along Charoen Krung Road and nearby areas.

Bangkok Post

Families traumatised by Thailand attack cling to slain children's toys

Grief-stricken relatives sobbed and clutched toys at a children's daycare centre on Friday, a day after a former policeman killed 34 people, most of them young children, in a knife and gun rampage there that has horrified Thailand.

Reuters

Thailand third in 'best country' survey

Thailand was ranked third on the "Best Countries in the World" list, while Bangkok ranked second on the "Best Big Cities in the World" list, according to Condé Nast Traveler's Reader's Choice Awards 2022.

Bangkok Post

BMA ups battle to avert river spill

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is stepping up efforts against flooding along Charoen Krung Road and nearby areas.

Bangkok Post

Meet K-drama actors in Bangkok

As the Covid-19 situation is almost over, Korean drama lovers are delighted to meet their favourite stars in person again. Local event organiser Koko Connection announced two actresses -- Park Eun-bin and Kim Se-jeong -- will hold their own fan meetings in Bangkok

Bangkok Post

'Little kids who were still sleeping' - Thailand mourns victims of mass killing

Pink and white coffins adorned with gold and bearing the bodies of the 22 children killed in a gun and knife rampage in Thailand were loaded onto a truck late on Thursday and driven away in the darkness.

Reuters

LIV Golf suffers blow as players denied ranking points

London (AFP) - LIV Golf players will not receive world ranking points for this week's event in Bangkok or the tournament in Jeddah later this month, the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) organisation said on Thursday.

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Bangkok Post

Bangkok and neighbours seek to coordinate flood fight

Officials in Bangkok, Nonthaburi and Pathum Thani have started talks on cooperation to more effectively remedy their shared flooding woes.

Daily Mirror

Dustin Johnson argues LIV players 'deserve ranking points' as controversial series denied

LIV Golf have been dealt another blow after being refused world ranking points for now by the Official World Golf Rankings, but Dustin Johnson believes the players 'deserve' them.

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LIV Golf members will not earn Official World Golf Ranking points in Bangkok or Jeddah, OWGR reviewing changes to MENA Tour

LIV Golf's workaround has been stopped, for now.

The Guardian - UK

LIV golfers will not earn rankings points at Bangkok Invitational, says OWGR

LIV golfers competing in Thailand this weekend will not earn world ranking points, in what serves as an embarrassment to the rebel tour after public claims to the contrary

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Daily Mirror

Fresh blow to LIV as world ranking points plan left in tatters ahead of Bangkok event

It was thought that LIV Golf were to be given world ranking points this week following a 'strategic alliance' with the MENA Tour, but the Official World Golf Rankings confirm that is not the case.

AFP

Gunman murders at least 35 in Thai nursery attack

Bangkok (AFP) - A former police officer shot dead at least 35 people, most of them children, when he stormed a nursery in Thailand on Thursday in one of the kingdom's deadliest mass killings.

AFP

Gunman murders at least 30 in Thai nursery attack

Bangkok (AFP) - A former police officer stormed a nursery in Thailand on Thursday, shooting dead at least 30 people, most of them children, before killing himself and his family.

AFP

Mickelson says world golf rankings need LIV events to be credible

Bangkok (AFP) - Six-time major winner Phil Mickelson on Thursday backed moves to award world ranking points for events on the breakaway LIV Golf circuit, saying it would help maintain the "credibility" of the global leaderboard.

Bangkok Post

BMA readies 2.5m sandbags

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has prepared 2.5 million sandbags to brace for the risk of high water surges from tomorrow until Oct 10 due to the release of flood water from the North, as heavy rain and high tides are forecast.

USA Today Sports Media Group

LIV Golf makes ‘strategic alliance’ with developmental MENA Tour in effort to gain Official World Golf Ranking points

LIV Golf Bangkok, the series' first event in Asia, tees off later this week.

ABC News

'It's like the new Amsterdam': The rush to cash in on Thailand's hazy cannabis laws

It was once known for its zero tolerance policy. Now it has some of the most lax cannabis laws in the world.

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