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Kids bear brunt of climate change
Oped, Published on 20/12/2022
» Rise in temperature and weather shifts due to climate change have a gruesome effect on human life and health globally. It is less known, however, that children are disproportionally affected due to climate change. Around 2.2 billion children are at extremely high risk of being affected by climate change, according to the assessment made by Unicef in 2020. Even the levels of violence and exploitation against children tend to increase with the impact of the ensuing disasters, as documented in a recent white paper by Barnfonden, a member of the ChildFund Alliance in Sweden.
Bangkok Glass stands up for Typhoon Noru victims
Published on 23/11/2022
» The recent attack by tropical typhoon Noru caused heavy continuous downpours from September to October 2022, resulting in massive flooding in many areas nationwide where the public suffered such disasters.
2011 floods unlike current crisis, says PM
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 25/10/2022
» This year's floods should not be compared to the floods of 2011, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Monday.
Floods likely to set back main rice harvest
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 18/10/2022
» Floods ravaging vast plots of farmland in many areas nationwide are likely to delay by two weeks harvesting of the main crop of the country's 2022-23 season, limiting output for the season which usually gets underway in early November.
Committee forecasts at least 3% GDP uptick
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 06/10/2022
» The Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry and Banking (JSCCIB) has inched up its 2022 GDP forecast, expecting the economy to grow by at least 3%, driven by the gradual recovery of the tourism industry.
Flooding damages crops, risks tourism recovery
Bloomberg News, Published on 04/10/2022
» Thailand is battling the worst flooding in years with a large swathe of its crop land inundated by seasonal storms and swollen rivers, threatening to fuel food prices and hinder a nascent tourism recovery.
Prawit issues orders to protect capital from surge
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 04/10/2022
» Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon has ordered that surging floodwaters from the North be retained in upstream provinces and diverted to a canal to Bangkok's east so as to protect the capital from flooding.
The soggy socks and sandbags month
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 02/10/2022
» Judging from the pervading sense of dampness experienced during the past week we are entering the annual soggy socks season so beloved by the populace. The meteorological office has been getting into the spirit of things with forecasts of heavy rains brought by what began as Typhoon Noru.
Riverside communities told to brace for floods
News, Post Reporters, Published on 01/10/2022
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has warned people living along the Chao Phraya River to brace for possible floods, while more than 500,000 rai of rice fields in the Northeast have been inundated by Tropical Storm Noru, formerly a super typhoon.
VIDEO: This Week's Top Stories
Gary Boyle, Published on 30/09/2022
» This week: Typhoon Noru, beauty queen asylum, baht freefall and Chiang Mai wall collapse