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Experience Japan in Bangkok at Thaniya Japan Days
Published on 24/01/2025
» Discover the essence of Japan in the heart of Bangkok with the highly anticipated “THANIYA JAPAN DAYS” at Thaniya Shopping Center, Silom. This year’s event, running from February 6-17, 2025, offers a perfect fusion of sport and culture, highlighting Thailand’s first “Japanese Golf Fair” alongside the return of the “YATAI MURA” food festival.
Treaty could end our plastic crisis
Oped, Salisa Traipipitsiriwat & Penchom Saetang, Published on 29/11/2024
» On Nov 13, a coalition of 160 civil society organisations in Thailand made a historic plea, submitting a joint statement urging the Thai government to champion a strong Global Plastics Treaty at the upcoming fifth and final negotiations in Busan, South Korea. This treaty, initiated in 2022, aims to establish a legally binding global framework to address plastic pollution across its entire life cycle.
Treaty a chance to solve plastic crisis
Oped, Salisa Traipipitsiriwat and Penchom Saetang, Published on 21/11/2024
» Plastic pollution is a massive problem that needs to be solved collectively at the global level.
Civil groups urge govt to back global plastics treaty
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 14/11/2024
» Civil society organisations (CSOs) have called on the government to take action against plastic pollution and show its support for a global treaty on plastics.
Divers take on 'ghost gear' threatening marine life
Reuters, Published on 20/04/2024
» PHUKET - Beneath the surface of the turquoise waters off a beach on this southern resort island, divers laboriously collect abandoned fishing gear, much of it made from plastic, that is tangled on coral and trapping sea life.
Towards a greener future
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 10/04/2024
» Plastic pollution has a negative effect on the environment, ecosystems, wildlife and human health. To reduce this scourge, 175 nations agreed to develop a legally binding agreement to address such pollution within the marine environment, known as the Global Plastic Treaty, during the 5th United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya. A draft of the treaty is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
Woman badly injured after train-pickup truck crash
Nujaree Rakrun, Published on 10/09/2022
» NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: A female university student was seriously injured when her car was hit by a passenger train at an unmanned railway crossing in Thung Song district on Friday evening.
Top of the (T)-Pops
Guru, Suthivas Tanphaibul, Published on 18/03/2022
» Taking most of the limelight in the Asian music industry is the K-Pop wave or Korea pop music. The genre has successfully connected people who are poles apart in origins while also shedding light on non-Western music and pop culture. Thai pop music, in particular, has flown under the radar for quite some time, with only a few names appearing on and off on global stages. However, with the power of social media, T-pop has become a rising tide during the last couple of years. Guru presents a quick look at up-and-coming Thai pop artists along with quick interviews with them.
Women's work
Asia focus, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 18/10/2021
» Amid wave after wave of Covid-19 in Japan, Mariko, a college lecturer and mother, has been working and raising her four-year-old daughter in an apartment shared by a family of four in Tokyo.
SCB opens investment centre at Sasin
Business, Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Published on 03/10/2018
» Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) launched its 12th SCB Investment Center at Chulalongkorn University's Sasin School of Management yesterday, with a plan to increase branches to 50 units next year.