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Only compassion can douse the fires
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 11/05/2019
» The bushfires that have ravaged parts of northern Thailand this year have been unusually fierce.
Cash crop policy a recipe for floods
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 24/08/2018
» Like several cities in Thailand, Nan, an increasingly popular tourist town in the northern region, has been devastated by floods since July.
Dam disaster a damning indictment
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 27/07/2018
» The spirit of volunteerism is running high among Thais as was recently demonstrated during the mission to rescue the 12 "Wild Boars" and their coach in the flooded Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai earlier this month.
'Organic' food can still bedevil your health
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 02/03/2018
» Despite all my self-indulgences such as my habit of going on binges, I consider myself a health conscious person. I swoon over the word "organic." Organic rice. Organic coffee. Organic eggs... sometimes I have even sipped organic wine, out of conscience.
Can Thailand meet the challenges of 2018?
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 06/01/2018
» The military government ended 2017 by saying that this year -- supposedly its last in power -- it will wage war on poverty.
Thai innovators get helping hand
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 08/10/2017
» Minister of Science and Technology Atchaka Sriboonrueng said she believes innovation is not an ideology that should remain exclusive to academic researchers or scientists.
Typhoon and cyclone risk on the rise
Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 21/08/2017
» Asia and the Pacific will face more intense typhoons and tropical cyclones, with rising global mean temperatures as climate change impacts become more pronounced, a recent report warns.