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Patama hosts FIVB chief during Bangkok visit
Sports, Published on 06/09/2025
» International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) president Fabio Azevedo was welcomed to Bangkok this week during the Women’s Volleyball World Championship 2025 at Indoor Stadium Huamark.
Plenty in store for sports fans in 2025
Sports, Published on 01/01/2025
» Los angeles: There may be no Olympics or Paralympics in 2025 but the sporting calendar is still steeped in high quality tournaments.
Bangkok named to host Nations League Finals in June
Sports, Published on 03/02/2024
» Thailand will host the women's Volleyball Nations League 2024 Finals for the first time in June.
Climate health needs forest care
Oped, Tasso Azevedo & Ilona Szabó, Published on 10/05/2023
» Even before taking office in January 2023, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva promised to end illegal deforestation in the Amazon. He also revived partnerships to amplify financing of forest protection and announced a presidential summit of Amazon Basin countries to be held in Belem in August. Mr Lula is determined to accelerate global cooperation to protect the world's largest tropical forest, including by leveraging the newly capitalised Amazon Fund which is supported by Norway and Germany. President Lula and his environment minister, Marina da Silva, have made the protection and preservation of the Amazon a priority.
Tax havens are fuelling autocracy
Oped, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Ilona Sologoub, Published on 23/02/2023
» People have been trying to dodge paying taxes since time immemorial, but globalisation has turned tax avoidance and evasion, as well as money laundering, into a lucrative business model. Over the past few decades, offshore tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Cyprus, and Ireland have enabled corporations and wealthy individuals to conceal profits and private wealth on an unprecedented scale.
Cuisine in the dark as power cuts grip Kyiv
AFP, Published on 11/11/2022
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - The place goes dark at 6:00 pm as scheduled but customers at this upscale Kyiv restaurant are unfazed, happy to continue their meal and conversations.
Miners unearth pink diamond believed to be largest seen in 300 years
AFP, Published on 27/07/2022
» SYDNEY - Miners in Angola have unearthed a rare pure pink diamond that is believed to be the largest found in 300 years, the Australian site operator announced Wednesday.
Hope fades as belongings of two men missing in Amazon found
AFP, Published on 13/06/2022
» ATALAIA DO NORTE (BRAZIL) - Brazilian authorities say they have found a backpack and personal effects of a British journalist and an Indigenous expert who disappeared in the Amazon last week, with the Briton's mother-in-law saying she has lost hope that they will emerge alive.
Top oil producers may freeze output amid Omicron concerns
AFP, Published on 02/12/2021
» LONDON - Major oil producers are due to meet Thursday to decide on output levels from January onwards, which could be frozen as the new Covid variant Omicron sparks turmoil.
WHO warns virus quicker than vaccines after G7 doses pledge
AFP, Published on 15/06/2021
» GENEVA: The WHO warned Monday that Covid-19 was moving faster than the vaccines, and said the G7's vow to share a billion doses with poorer nations was simply not enough.