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    Ensuring safety and health at work

    Oped, Published on 26/04/2024

    » Climate change is having serious impacts on the safety and health of workers in the Asia-Pacific region.

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    The trials and tribulations of Melania Trump

    News, Maureen Dowd, Published on 23/04/2024

    » Outside my office, there is a picture of the Slovenian Sphinx visiting the Egyptian Sphinx, taken during a 2018 photo shoot in Giza nine months after Melania Trump was blindsided by the steamy news about her husband and Stormy Daniels.

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    Your allergies really are getting much worse

    News, Published on 23/04/2024

    » If you've sensed that your allergies are getting worse each year, it's not your imagination: Allergy season in the US is getting longer and more intense. You can thank climate change for your misery. And yet we're not doing enough -- to slow down climate change, of course, but to recognise and respond to its very clear health effects.

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    Humanising the US-China relationship

    Oped, Published on 10/04/2024

    » On a recent trip to China with my Northwestern Kellogg students, we were all struck by how few Americans had returned to the country since the end of its zero-Covid policy in December 2022.

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    Public health needs more attention

    News, Published on 08/04/2024

    » April 7 marks the founding anniversary of the World Health Organization. It was on this day, in 1948, that the WHO constitution came into force for the first time.

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    Save children from toy pods

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 06/04/2024

    » The news about "toy pods" -- a new type of e-cigarette that is proving popular among young students -- might be quite shocking for parents. The lukewarm reaction from the government is more shocking still.

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    We need climate adaptation now

    Oped, Published on 05/04/2024

    » The announcement made by the Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) is a grim warning of record-high temperatures. The entire nation is bracing for scorching hot weather this month, with forecasters saying temperatures look set to reach 44.5 degrees Celsius in some parts of the country. For example, the mercury level in the Thoen district of the northern Lampang province reached 42C on Monday and yesterday, the hottest temperatures for this year’s summer so far. Meanwhile, the TMD reported the temperature of Muang district was not far behind at 41.8C.

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    Democracies can win tech race

    Oped, Published on 04/04/2024

    » The world is on the precipice of a technological cold war. As authoritarian regimes develop new digital tools that endanger open societies and threaten democratic values, the West must decide whether to compete or concede. Today, the battle for freedom is being fought in Ukraine; but the frontline could one day be in Taiwan, a global technology hub, producing the world's most advanced microchips, and a flourishing democracy less than 160 kilometres off the coast of China, which seems bent on annexing the island.

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    How to save the pandemic treaty

    Oped, Mariana Mazzucato, Published on 03/04/2024

    » Recent drafts of a global pandemic treaty have been widely criticised as "shameful and unjust". When the latest round of negotiations opened on March 18, it was clear that a key lesson of the Covid-19 pandemic was being ignored: public health and the health of the economy are interdependent.

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    Protect migrant kids

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 30/03/2024

    » A temple raid in Lop Buri has sparked concern over forced deportations after a group of 19 stateless children enrolled in a monkhood ordination programme were ejected from their class and transferred to the border province of Chiang Rai.

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