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Mobile disaster alert test in Bangkok, 4 other provinces on Tuesday
Online Reporters, Published on 11/05/2025
» The Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department will carry out another cell broadcast test at 1pm on Tuesday in five Thai provinces, including the capital.
When disasters create unlikely alliances
Oped, Published on 15/03/2025
» Disasters are tragic and frightening events, whether emerging from the climate crisis, armed conflict, or health catastrophe. They reveal deep social inequalities and compel fear and insecurity. But times of catastrophe can also serve as opportunities to turn toward collective resilience and mutual aid and build unlikely alliances between communities.
Unfazed devotees shrug off stampede at India mega-festival
AFP, Published on 30/01/2025
» PRAYAGRAJ (INDIA) - Swarming throngs of devotees bathed in rivers at the world's biggest religious gathering in India on Thursday, undeterred by a stampede a day earlier that killed at least 30 people.
Vintage tonnage keeps Russian oil flowing
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/01/2025
» The name is brilliant: "vintage tonnage". It evokes 17th-century pirate vessels flying the skull-and-crossbones, 18th-century ships-of-the-line bristling with cannons, or even 19th-century clipper ships in full sail bringing tea to England and America. The images are always romantic and often beautiful.
Are Russian sanctions working? Debate takes new urgency with Trump
Published on 02/01/2025
» LONDON — Thousands of far-reaching sanctions have been imposed by dozens of countries on Russian banks, businesses and people since Moscow ordered tanks to roll across the border into Ukraine in the winter of 2022.
Zelensky vows Ukraine will do everything in 2025 to stop Russia
AFP, Published on 01/01/2025
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday vowed that his country would use 2025 to fight for an end to Russia's nearly three-year-long invasion by any means necessary.
Russian state owner says cargo ship blast was 'terrorist attack'
AFP, Published on 26/12/2024
» MOSCOW - A "terrorist act" sank the cargo ship that went down in international waters in the Mediterranean this week, the Russian state-owned company that owns the vessel said Wednesday.
Treaty a chance to solve plastic crisis
Oped, Published on 21/11/2024
» Plastic pollution is a massive problem that needs to be solved collectively at the global level.
Tankers ‘covering up’ visits to Russia
Published on 31/10/2024
» HELSINKI - Finland’s Coast Guard says it has detected constant disturbances to satellite navigation signals in the Baltic Sea since April and in recent weeks has seen tankers “spoofing” their location data to cover up visits to Russia.
We must not lose sight of Myanmar
Oped, Published on 20/09/2024
» Three years on, there remains no end in sight to the crisis in Myanmar. As the international community is increasingly beset by the gridlock in Myanmar and instead drawn towards conflict elsewhere in the world, there is a real concern of a "Myanmar fatigue" setting in. Be that as it may, Thailand cannot afford to lose sight of the dire situation in its immediate neighbour.