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Relief and despair: repeal of logging ban divides Kenya
AFP, Published on 07/08/2023
» MOLO (KENYA) - It was the news Kenya's timber industry had waited over five years to hear: a ban on logging was over, and the country's forests were once again open for business.
Preserving local culture
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 25/04/2023
» Created by Rush Pleansuk, the mythology of the goddess Mekhala being chased by the thunder deity Ramasura is depicted through nang yai, or a grand shadow play, at the art exhibition "Ramasura". Rush is best known as the winner of the 2019 Designer of the Year award from the Department of International Trade Promotion, Ministry of Commerce. He is also a co-founder of the design company Sumphat Gallery, and the architecture company Sumphat Space. The artist confessed that although he works on design for a living, his true passion is art.
Indonesia on value-adding crusade
Published on 25/02/2023
» The value of Indonesia’s nickel exports surged tenfold in five years after it forced buyers to set up refineries in the country. Now Southeast Asia’s biggest economy plans to use that blueprint to vault nto the ranks of higher-income economies by processing everything from copper to fish.
Supply-Chain Problems Show Signs of Easing
Business, Published on 23/11/2021
» Global supply-chain woes are beginning to recede, but shipping, manufacturing and retail executives say that they don't expect a return to more-normal operations until next year and that cargo will continue to be delayed if Covid-19 outbreaks disrupt key distribution hubs.
Furniture factory hit by fire
Pongpat Wongyala, Published on 08/08/2021
» PATHUM THANI: A fire broke out at a timber processing factory of Aree Aphiluck Co in Muang district of this Central province north of Bangkok. There were no reports of injuries or deaths, police said.
PJ WOOD, BETS ON THE CONSCIOUS CONSUMER
Published on 23/04/2021
» Mrs. Buse and Mr. Andrew de Jesus believes that global consumers prefers products that are manufactured the sustainable way.
Migrants face changing climate
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 01/07/2018
» The arrival of May once reminded Lin Na that the first rain of the year was on its way. The ground in her small village of Prey Veng province in southern Cambodia would start to soften, dampened by rainfall. This time each year, she would help her family cultivate a two-hectare rice field, the main source of food and income for them throughout the year.
Prison time for pay: Police can arrange it for you?
Jon Fernquest, Published on 09/12/2016
» Poor Man says hired by police to go to prison for rich factory owner but police cheated him paid half, 4 years not 4 months in jail.
Man 'was paid' to do time behind bars
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 09/12/2016
» The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) is investigating a bizarre case involving a man who was allegedly paid to serve a prison sentence, illegal wood, the bitter wife of the prisoner and a shady businessman.
NSC, rebels to talk over economic plan
News, Published on 09/08/2016
» The government's economic scheme which aims to turn three districts in the restive South into an economic triangle will be discussed with separatist groups, the National Security Council (NSC) says.