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US TikTok ban not the right move
Oped, Published on 27/03/2024
» On March 13, the United States House of Representatives passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. It is no secret that the bill takes aim at TikTok. The massively popular video-sharing platform is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance and is thus subject to the laws of the People's Republic of China and potentially to the control of the Communist Party of China (CPC), despite assurances to the contrary from company executives.
Climate wake-up call
Oped, Editorial, Published on 03/01/2024
» As the rest of the country celebrated the festive season, people in the deep South provinces struggled with the effects of severe flooding.
Revisiting Prayut govt's farm policies
Oped, Published on 12/10/2023
» This article aims to appraise part of the farm policies that the Prayut Chan-o-cha government implemented from July 2019-July 2022.
Under the weather
Oped, Editorial, Published on 07/10/2023
» The collapse of a fabric roof at Indoor Stadium Huamark has stoked fears about the safety of operating in public buildings.
Women bearing disasters' brunt
Oped, Published on 03/10/2023
» Of the many natural disasters that afflict India each year, floods are by far the most prevalent. This is no surprise, given that around 40 million hectares of land in the country are prone to flooding, and nearly 75% of the annual rainfall comes in the space of a few months.
Time runs short in India's climate crisis
Oped, Published on 09/08/2023
» 'I have never seen climate carnage on the scale of the floods here in Pakistan. As our planet continues to warm, all countries will increasingly suffer losses and damage from climate beyond their capacity to adapt. This is a global crisis, it demands a global response," wrote UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in his tweet at the end of his two-day solidarity trip to Pakistan in September last year.
Laos' heritage town needs preservation
News, Tom Fawthrop, Published on 27/05/2023
» Few sites anywhere in Asia can match the charm and cultural importance of Luang Prabang, the old royal capital of Laos situated on the Mekong River. With a legacy dating back some 800 years, the town and its verdant riverside surroundings were inscribed as a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1995.
A new weapon against malaria
Oped, Published on 03/05/2023
» Over the past three years, the Covid-19 pandemic has dominated headlines and spurred scientific research, with experts around the world focusing resources and any potentially useful technology on the problem.
Trucks, haze and action
Oped, Editorial, Published on 10/03/2023
» The high levels of PM2.5 air pollution seen this month revive the question of what national and local governments could have done but failed to do. Within this, the proposed relocation of Bangkok Port out of the capital city -- part of the national master plan to reduce PM2.5 -- attracted media attention.
Coral reefs face new health threat
Oped, Editorial, Published on 01/01/2023
» The end of the year is a time for rest, reflection, and hope of a better future, whether for our family and friends, or for the planet we live on. Unfortunately, this year has continued the trend of climate-linked disasters and as the year comes to an end, disturbing news closer to home has surfaced.