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  • OPINION

    Climate change urgency grows

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 01/07/2019

    » Climate change is global in nature but it is having an especially severe impact on Asia. Chennai, one of India's largest cities, has run out of water as the summer heat intensifies. With monsoon rains below average, four lakes in the city of 4.7 million have dried up. Residents don't have enough water to drink, bathe or wash clothes, malls have closed their washrooms and restaurants are not open for customers.

  • OPINION

    Bad sign from climate change sceptic Trump

    News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 25/11/2016

    » So Donald Trump, the soon-to-be American president, is backtracking on his position about climate change.

  • OPINION

    Reckless development sows seeds of disaster

    News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 09/08/2018

    » As monsoon rains have struck the Mekong region recently, some countries have been hit hard by flooding. These disasters reflect the fact that the region's development projects have not fully recognised climate change impacts and so lack plans to deal with them.

  • OPINION

    No justification for Smith's actions

    Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 25/04/2022

    » Ironically, despite many important things happening in our world, people have spent more time in the past few weeks talking about superstar Will Smith and his "Oscars slap heard round the world" than the Russia-Ukraine war, the pandemic or climate change.

  • OPINION

    Under the weather

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 07/10/2023

    » The collapse of a fabric roof at Indoor Stadium Huamark has stoked fears about the safety of operating in public buildings.

  • OPINION

    Keep calm – and keep hands off the art

    Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 23/01/2023

    » The urban art landscape in Thailand was marred earlier this month when a popular contemporary installation of a white buffalo called Kwai Calm was broken by a drunk British tourist who attempted to climb atop the sculpture, which stands in front of Samyan Mitrtown.

  • OPINION

    Flood ritual dies hard

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 02/08/2022

    » Fears of flooding have returned again with news the Royal Irrigation Department (RID) will discharge more water from the Chao Phraya dam in Chai Nat to accommodate run-off from the North.

  • OPINION

    Time for a flood remedy

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 10/09/2022

    » Fears of a repetition of the 2011 epic flood will haunt city residents in the coming days as heavy rain leads to massive floods in the northern part of the capital and adjacent areas. While the current conditions do not match 2011's huge proportions, the reaction of City Hall does not inspire much hope. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) -- regardless of who is the elected or appointed governor -- has reacted to the flooding in the same manner that it did in past years.

  • OPINION

    UK carrier group in Indo-Pacific

    Oped, Published on 23/07/2021

    » Tomorrow, HMS Richmond will enter Thailand's territorial waters to conduct a maritime military exercise with the Royal Thai Navy. This will be the first visit of a Royal Navy ship to Thailand since HMS Daring visited in 2014, and the first engagement of the UK Carrier Strike Group with an Asean nation.

  • OPINION

    Bureaucracy still baffles

    News, Published on 25/07/2021

    » All the requirements of bureaucracy in this country have not changed in more than 100 years.

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