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Grok, is that Gaza? AI image checks mislocate news photographs
AFP, Published on 07/08/2025
» PARIS - This image by AFP photojournalist Omar al-Qattaa shows a skeletal, underfed girl in Gaza, where Israel's blockade has fuelled fears of mass famine in the Palestinian territory.
Like Escobar, Ecuador's drug lords build 'narco-zoos'
AFP, Published on 20/10/2023
» QUITO - A pair of jaguars discovered in a cage on a ranch exposed a cruel new fashion among Ecuador's drug lords. In the style of Colombian cocaine baron Pablo Escobar, they are erecting private, illegal zoos as a status symbol.
Fighting two pandemics in Asia and the Pacific
Oped, Published on 04/09/2020
» Global hunger has been on a regrettable rise in recent years, and despite Asia's economic clout, the continent -- home to more than half of the world's undernourished -- has not been spared. Now Covid-19 is leading to a slowdown of regional economic growth and further threatening food security.
Hungry and in chains, Thailand's tourist elephants face crisis
AFP, Published on 31/03/2020
» Underfed and chained up for endless hours, campaigners warn many elephants working in Thailand's tourism sector may starve, be sold to zoos or shifted into the illegal logging trade as the coronavirus decimates visitor numbers.
From low to high
Life, Father Joe Maier, Published on 12/11/2018
» Seventeen years ago, Mum gave birth to a healthy son in a provincial prison hospital two hours outside of Bangkok. She named her son Ake. To avoid the nightmare of trying to remember who might have been the actual father of her child, she had blessed him with her own last name.
Govt mulls more carers for the elderly
News, Post Reporters, Published on 05/07/2018
» The government is considering investing two billion baht a year in hiring certified carers to provide basic care to the estimated 300,000 bedridden patients living at home nationwide.
Grow-it-yourself school leads the way on lunches
News, Published on 24/06/2018
» School children can eat hearty and healthy meals without having to rely much on the state subsidy if they grow and raise their own food, as the Ban Koke Chamroen School in Prasat district of Surin has found.
Tiger temple animals now 'starving'
News, Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 04/02/2018
» Hundreds of animals, including a lion, are being underfed at Kanchanaburi's Tiger Temple, according to a recent visitor who posted his concerns on Facebook.