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    Taylor Swift's Eras tour confronts climate crisis

    News, Published on 22/11/2023

    » Taylor Swift, one of the world's most successful and wealthiest pop stars, has come face to face with the climate crisis in Brazil during her global Eras tour.

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    Reviving Indonesia

    Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 24/08/2020

    » Despite being hit hard by Covid-19, Indonesia is keen to show the world that it remains firm in its commitment to structural reforms that will address fundamental issues triggered by the pandemic, improve confidence and the ease of doing business.

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    Moving forward, together

    News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 10/08/2020

    » Five decades have gone by, but the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is still standing. That said, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the coronavirus crisis is a clarion call for increased cooperation in what some observers have described as the age of "deglobalisation".

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    Consultancy 'warp' drive deepens crisis of capitalism

    News, Published on 13/03/2023

    » In recent years, McKinsey & Company has become a household name -- but for all the wrong reasons. One of the "Big Three" consulting firms, its work for major corporations and governments has increasingly become a source of scandal and intrigue around the world.

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    Laughing and learning

    Life, Published on 01/06/2020

    » The Banlue Group, publisher of the popular Thai comic magazine Kai Hua Ror (Laughter For Sale), has recently launched a special edition comic book to show families nationwide how to protect themselves from the new coronavirus.

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    Grim logic

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 12/11/2022

    » Re: "Financial injustice" and "What a cop out", (PostBag, Nov 11).

  • News & article

    Emerging monkeypox threat

    News, Published on 07/08/2022

    » Thailand has now found four monkeypox patients, including the first Thai woman last Friday. Given the apparent rise in infections, the Ministry of Public Health has come under pressure to formulate control and treatment measures.

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    The varieties of climate-driven medical risk

    Oped, Published on 04/08/2022

    » When natural disasters force people to pack a bag and flee to safety, important items are often forgotten. Following California's 2007 wildfire season, estimates were that for every household at least one person left behind prescription medication during evacuation. Likewise, when Hurricane Harvey threatened to flood my own mother's Texas home in 2017, she forgot to grab her medication in her rush to escape the storm's path -- even though she was normally meticulous when packing for a trip.

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    Superbugs lurk in local food systems

    Oped, Published on 06/04/2022

    » When you think of antibiotics, the first thing that probably comes to mind is a doctor prescribing treatment to a sick person. But the vast majority of antibiotics used are actually given to animals on factory farms. This overuse of antibiotics in the agricultural sector is fuelling a global health crisis, with antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" killing more than one hundred Thais every day.

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    2020: The year virtual concerts took off

    Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 22/12/2020

    » International concerts were absent for much of 2020 as every tour and festival was postponed or cancelled due to the pandemic. While there was not much to look forward to, one ray of hope we had amid the absence of live music was to see the number of artists around the globe covering all genres turning to the virtual world as a new medium to engage with their music fans. They took to social media live-streaming to give fans a much-needed virtual music fix and while the novelty of DIY online concerts filmed in artist's living rooms and home studios via Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube wore off after a few days in quarantine, many musicians and music labels quickly became even more creative in lockdown and evolved a whole raft of innovative and all-round entertaining virtual concerts bringing the new experience of live music into people's homes.

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