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Thailand's China-built high-speed rail on track but delayed
AFP, Published on 12/04/2023
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: One of Thailand's oldest railway stations is facing demolition as the kingdom presses ahead with a long-delayed Chinese-backed high-speed line that has caused unease about lost heritage and closer ties to Beijing.
Thai elephants 'broken' for lucrative animal tourism
AFP, Published on 23/12/2019
» SURIN: Separated from their mothers, jabbed with metal hooks, and sometimes deprived of food -- many Thai elephants are tamed by force before being sold to lucrative tourism sites increasingly advertised as 'sanctuaries' to cruelty-conscious travellers.
Warming forcing Arctic animals to change feeding habits
AFP, Published on 06/03/2019
» TOKYO: Seals and whales in the Arctic are shifting their feeding patterns as climate change alters their habitats, and the way they do so may determine whether they survive, a new study has found.
World to miss 2020 climate 'turning point' - analysis
AFP, Published on 22/01/2019
» PARIS: The world is on course to miss its "best chance" of preventing runaway climate change with a key milestone in limiting greenhouse gas emissions likely to fall short in 2020, researchers warned Tuesday.
Leicester rename foundation in honour of late owner
AFP, Published on 07/11/2018
» LONDON: Leicester City's Foxes Foundation will be renamed The Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha Foundation in honour of the club's chairman, who tragically died in a helicopter crash, the Premier League side announced on Tuesday.
Death of King Power boss Vichai confirmed
AFP, Published on 29/10/2018
» LEICESTER, England: The billionaire boss of King Power and Leicester City football team was among three Thais and two foreigners killed when his helicopter crashed and burst into flames in the Premier League side's football stadium car park moments after taking off from the pitch, the club said on Sunday.
Helicopter owned by Leicester City's Thai chairman crashes
AFP, Published on 28/10/2018
» LEICESTER: A helicopter belonging to Thai billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha crashed on Saturday near the stadium of his Premier League club Leicester City.
Beware of fraudsters, Chilean miners tell Thai boys
AFP, Published on 13/07/2018
» SANTIAGO, Chile: Guard against exploitation: that's the message Chilean miners have offered the 12 Thai boys and their football coach following the harrowing ordeal of spending 18 days trapped in a cave.
'Hottest Arctic ever' triggers massive ice melt
AFP, Published on 14/12/2016
» MIAMI - The Arctic shattered heat records in the past year, as unusually warm air triggered massive melting of ice and snow and a late fall freeze, US government scientists said Tuesday.
Indonesia expands protection for peatlands
AFP, Published on 06/12/2016
» JAKARTA - Indonesia has extended legal protection for its wetlands and peat bogs by expanding a ban on the conversion of these carbon-rich swamps into plantations.