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Tropical forest loss eases after record year: researchers
AFP, Published on 29/04/2026
» PARIS (FRANCE) - The pace of tropical forest destruction slowed in 2025 after record losses the year before but remained at worrying levels equivalent to 11 football fields per minute, researchers said Wednesday.
New releases for your streaming pleasure: April 29-May 5
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 29/04/2026
» Looking for a title to binge-watch this weekend? Here's our pick!
GSB targets huge increase in low-income borrowers
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 29/04/2026
» Government Savings Bank (GSB) aims to let an additional 1 million low-income Thais access formal credit, representing a total loan value of about 100 billion baht, says the bank's new chief.
AI fakes of accused US press gala gunman flood social media
AFP, Published on 29/04/2026
» WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - Facebook has been overrun with low-effort AI fakes inventing biographical details and celebrity connections for the man charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump at a Washington press gala Saturday.
Japan arrivals to dip during Golden Week
Business, Narumon Kasemsuk, Published on 29/04/2026
» The Japanese market is expected to drop during the Golden Week holiday this week as seat capacity to Thailand plunged by 6%, with hotel operators viewing flight cancellations as having a more severe impact on Thai tourism than high airfares.
IOC panel visits Bangkok sites
Sports, Tor Chittinand, Published on 29/04/2026
» The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Youth Olympic Games 2030 Working Group has begun a three-day inspection mission in Thailand, with visits to proposed venues in and around Bangkok.
Navy backs B434m funding for new tanker
News, Published on 29/04/2026
» The Royal Thai Navy has approved a budget of 434 million baht to procure a new oil tanker to replace the ageing HTMS Chula, in a bid to lift its maritime logistics capabilities and support domestic shipbuilding.
New stimulus to help consumer stocks
Business, Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Published on 29/04/2026
» Retail, food & beverage (F&B), finance and transport stocks will receive a bump from the "Thai Help Thai Plus" co-payment stimulus when it jump-starts domestic consumption, according to analysts.
Donald Trump and his tragedy of errors
Oped, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Published on 29/04/2026
» It is true, as Alexander Pope once said, that to err is human. But while everyone is fallible, some humans are more prone to error than others. The history of authoritarian and absolutist political rule is rife with figures whose mistakes proved calamitous not just for themselves but for the societies they ruled.
A bridge too far
Oped, Postbag, Published on 29/04/2026
» Re: "Singapore eyes bridge potential", (BP, April 28) & Land Bridge plan due for cabinet", (BP, April 26). PM Anutin Charnvirakul says the proposed southern Land Bridge project is suddenly vital due to a temporary shift in global trade routes. Of course, such a quickly grabbed upon straw is put forth by politicians in their blind adoration of public–private partnerships, the mother of all graft mechanisms. What else have they got?