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  • LIFE

    The coming storm

    Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 20/02/2023

    » Climate change is an invisible killer. A family that lived in a hill station in India, an area known for its colder climate, took their sick child to the hospital. Nobody thought of dengue until a diagnosis confirmed it. Warmer temperatures in India and elsewhere make conditions more favourable for mosquitoes.

  • THAILAND

    School 'failed to get nod' for foreign pupils

    News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 25/07/2019

    » The Office of the Private Education Commission (Opec) has confirmed that International Hotel and Airline Business School (I-HABS) failed to seek permission from the Ministry of Education to enrol foreign students on an eight-month hotel management course in Bangkok following reports that Nepali students ended up working and living in subpar conditions.

  • OPINION

    The right to clean air

    Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 05/06/2023

    » In 2009, Smog In The City envisioned a not-too-distant future for Chiang Mai. Set in 2019, Fah returns home to find her family and villagers suffering from air pollution. Following a critical level of toxic haze, the government orders a state of emergency and immediate evacuation. After her mother dies of smog-induced acute coronary syndrome, she rushes to take her family to an airport like other evacuees. While her father and brother deteriorate, a couple approaches her car for drinking water.

  • LIFE

    Give mental health a chance

    Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 18/10/2022

    » A string of mass shootings by officers in recent years may involve many factors, but they highlight the need for an improvement in mental health services, experts say, following the nursery massacre in Nong Bua Lam Phu's Na Klang district that left 36 people dead, mostly young children, and others injured.

  • LIFE

    A hundred baht and a dream

    Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 14/06/2022

    » Before a lucky draw this week, a middle-aged woman stared intently at a stall in front of Bangkok's shopping mall. She prayed and plucked three lottery tickets, 100 baht each, out of endless possibilities. "I hope you will win the prize," Sudta Tamnudee, a vendor, told her first customer.

  • LIFE

    Point of no return

    Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 01/03/2021

    » The world has about six years and 10 months left before its carbon budget -- the amount of carbon dioxide that can be released into the atmosphere at the current rate -- will be completely depleted. Unless human beings join hands to limit global warming under the 1.5C safe threshold, they will face worsening famines, disasters, and displacement. The climate clock by two artists, Gan Golan and Andrew Boyd, in Manhattan's Union Square, is a stark reminder of how destructive and fragile we are.

  • THAILAND

    Govt gets low scores for gender parity

    News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 05/03/2020

    » The government has been criticised by female activists for restricting their access to justice and silencing rights advocates, ahead of this year's International Women's Day which falls on Sunday.

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