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AFP, Published on 20/07/2025
» HALONG BAY (VIETNAM) - Rescuers were desperately searching for five people still missing on Sunday after 37 were killed when a boat capsized in one of Vietnam's most popular tourist destinations.
AFP, Published on 19/07/2025
» HANOI - A tourist boat ferrying families around Vietnam's Ha Long Bay capsized in a storm on Saturday afternoon, leaving at least 34 people dead, according to state media reports, as rescuers scrambled to locate the missing.
Published on 19/07/2025
» HANOI - At least 27 people died after a tourist boat capsized in stormy weather in Halong Bay on Saturday, Vietnamese state media reported.
AFP, Published on 05/06/2025
» TOKYO - Athletes at next year’s Asian Games in Japan will stay on a “floating village” cruise ship and in converted shipping containers, an organising official told AFP, defending the cost-cutting move.
Oped, Rapeepat Ingkasit, Published on 05/02/2025
» Last year turned out to be one of the most expensive on record in terms of insurance payments resulting from natural disasters.
Life, Patcharawalai Sanyanusin, Published on 05/02/2025
» The largest and most-anticipated Japan expo in Asia will be back with all forms of entertainment across nearly every floor of CentralWorld, Ratchadamri Road, daily from 10am to 9pm, from Friday until Sunday.
AFP, Published on 24/01/2025
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - Extreme weather disrupted the schooling of about 242 million children in 85 countries last year -- roughly one in seven students, the UN children's agency reported Thursday, deploring an "overlooked" aspect of the climate crisis.
Oped, Published on 02/01/2025
» The news from Asia at year-end 2024 that dominated headlines here in the United States included the tragic crash landing of Jeju Air flight 2216 flying from Thailand. As hundreds of millions took to roads and to the air for the holidays, the news seemed especially close to home, even thousands of miles away.
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 31/12/2024
» Environmental issues damaged Thai society and the economy in a number of ways in 2024.
AFP, Published on 27/12/2024
» PARIS - From tiny and impoverished Mayotte to oil-rich behemoth Saudi Arabia, prosperous European cities to overcrowded slums in Africa, nowhere was spared the devastating impact of supercharged climate disasters in 2024.