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Summer sojourns in and out of Thailand
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 16/07/2025
» With the onset of the monsoons, coupled with the heat in the Thai capital (and yes, we are talking about the weather, for once), it is time to experience the onslaught of milder summer. Guru By Bangkok Post lists places where you can chill in the cool summer breeze.
Competence needed
Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/09/2024
» Re: "New-look cabinet to set policy agenda", (BP, Sept 5).
Seed bomb threat to forest ecology
Editorial, Published on 01/09/2024
» Despite public concern over invasive species like the blackchin tilapia, which is rapidly spreading and threatening river and marine ecosystems nationwide, forest authorities are now putting rainforests at risk by seed bombing with non-native species. This reckless action must stop.
CP Foods Advances Sustainability with Smart Broiler Farms
Published on 12/07/2024
» Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CP Foods) is enhancing agricultural efficiency and environmental sustainability through the implementation of a "Smart Farm" system across its broiler farms nationwide. These advanced facilities employ intelligent technologies and eco-friendly solutions to strengthen biosecurity and optimise resource management. Additionally, the company is transforming vacant spaces on its farms into greener areas by planting trees.
Brewing innovation
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 09/07/2024
» As Thailand Coffee Festival 2024 approaches, anticipation is brewing among enthusiasts, professionals and stakeholders. Changnoi Kunjara, managing director of Cloud and Ground, is leading one of Asia's most interesting coffee events alongside collaborator Nutrada Kunavivattananon, president of the Specialty Coffee Association of Thailand.
Reforestation seen as only viable smog solution
Dave Kendall, Published on 01/04/2024
» Northern Thailand's chronic smog problem is usually blamed on burning crop waste, villagers burning wooded areas to pick mushrooms and vehicle emissions. The solutions, we are told, involve regulations and enforcement.
Climate health needs forest care
Oped, Published on 10/05/2023
» Even before taking office in January 2023, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva promised to end illegal deforestation in the Amazon. He also revived partnerships to amplify financing of forest protection and announced a presidential summit of Amazon Basin countries to be held in Belem in August. Mr Lula is determined to accelerate global cooperation to protect the world's largest tropical forest, including by leveraging the newly capitalised Amazon Fund which is supported by Norway and Germany. President Lula and his environment minister, Marina da Silva, have made the protection and preservation of the Amazon a priority.
36 hours in Bangkok (and the world’s your oyster)
Published on 12/02/2023
» Bangkokians have been busy: Travellers returning to “the City of Angels” after even a few years will notice changes.
Subarctic boreal forest, vital for the planet, is at risk
Published on 14/11/2022
» FORT MCMURRAY, Canada: It burns, it drifts, it falls victim to insects. And it's shrinking.
The woman bringing forests back to life
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 18/09/2022
» She has walked for kilometres, deep into tropical rainforests, carefully cutting healthy branches from hundreds of trees and replanting and grafting them. Her eyes light up when she talks about rare seeds or a sapling. And when she dies, she would like to be reborn, she said, as a big tree.