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Drone in Chiang Mai helps solve forest carbon capture riddle
AFP, Published on 18/12/2023
» CHIANG MAI: On a hillside overlooking cabbage fields outside the northern city of Chiang Mai, a drone's rotors begin to whir, lifting it over a patch of forest.
Long-reigning Thai and British monarchs shared a bond
AFP, Published on 09/09/2022
» Their ancestors were "royal friends by correspondence" but Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Thailand's His Majesty King Bhumibol the Great developed a face-to-face bond during their lifetimes.
US rescinds order denying visas for foreign students
AFP, Published on 15/07/2020
» NEW YORK: The United States government rescinded its controversial decision to revoke foreign student visas whose courses move online due to coronavirus, a federal judge said Tuesday.
Swastikas and statues, SE Asia's fixation with Nazi iconography
AFP, Published on 03/03/2019
» Teen idol Namsai feared being booted from her band after a photo of her wearing a t-shirt with a Nazi swastika went viral, but without the uproar she says she would have remained ignorant about the offensive implications of her fashion choices.
University med students honour classroom cadavers
AFP, Published on 04/05/2018
» Medical students said prayers over the coffins of hundreds of cadavers on Thursday, in a solemn ceremony to bid farewell to the corpses that helped them sharpen their dissection and anatomy knowledge.
New spider species named after Harry Potter hat
AFP, Published on 15/12/2016
» MUMBAI - Indian scientists have discovered a new species of spider that looks "uncannily" like the sorting hat in Harry Potter and have named it after its owner Godric Gryffindor, they said Thursday.
Survivors remember Oct 6 student massacre
AFP, Published on 06/10/2016
» Buddhist monks opened an emotionally charged commemoration at dawn on Thursday, the 40th anniversary of a massacre of student protesters at Thammasat University, as survivors reflected on a battle for democracy that appears lost in junta-run Thailand.
Pattani inquest rules army killed 4 unarmed men
AFP, Published on 15/09/2016
» BANGKOK - An inquest has ruled that security forces gunned down four unarmed Muslim men in a high-profile case in the deep South, a lawyer said Wednesday.
Kabul's once battle-scarred zoo roars back to life
AFP, Published on 05/09/2016
» KABUL - Its scarred lion Marjan was for years a symbol of Afghan survival.
Sanctuary offers hope for endangered Philippine eagle
AFP, Published on 15/06/2016
» DAVAO, PHILIPPINES - Surprisingly loud chirps accompany a clumsy flurry of tiny wings as a wispy-haired chick breaks through its shell, its birth offering rare cause for celebration in the struggle to save the Philippine eagle from extinction.