• OPINION

  On a quest to restore mountains

  News, Published on 11/12/2023

  » Mountains are not just magnificent landscapes. They are lifelines for millions.

• OPINION

  Himalayas key to climate battle

  News, Published on 15/05/2023

  » In our collective imagination, the Himalayas -- the roof of the world -- are an archetype: glistening white, distant, even otherworldly. Climbing them is proof of humanity's daring, courage and drive. And yet, despite rising 6,993 metres above sea level, the summit of Mount Machapuchare in central Nepal resembled a black rock pyramid this winter, devoid of ice and snow. Glaciers near Mount Everest have turned into large lakes.

• OPINION

  Message on the 8th Constitution Day & National Day of Nepal

  Published on 19/09/2022

  » Nepal celebrates the 8th Constitution Day and National Day today. On this happy occasion, I would like to extend greetings and felicitations to all fellow citizens living in Thailand and the accredited countries namely Cambodia, Laos, Singapore and Vietnam.

• OPINION

  Govt building Sinovac castles in the sand

  Oped, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 06/07/2021

  » What do we do when more and more medical personnel get infected with Covid-19 even though they had received two doses of Sinovac?

• OPINION

  The magical world of far away places

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 04/04/2021

  » Earlier this week I was chatting with friends about which places around the globe captured their imagination most when they were kids. One was fascinated by Mandalay, while another said Pondicherry caught his eye. Zanzibar was another name that cropped up.

• OPINION

  It's 'Sherpa time' without the mountain

  News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 31/05/2020

  » Towards the end of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's uncomfortable grilling by MPs last week he complained that preparing for the meeting had taken up a lot of "Sherpa time". As it seems unlikely Boris is planning an Everest expedition, the "Sherpas" he was referring to are apparently those people with the unenviable task of helping him prepare for such questioning, or more accurately, the ones who do all the hard work.

• OPINION

  Embedding S Korea in Southeast Asia

  News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 19/11/2019

  » For three days from Nov 25-27 in the port city of Busan, South Korean President Moon Jae-in will have a rare opportunity that eluded his predecessors -- to set in cast iron the future and shape of South Korean-Asean and Mekong riparian country relations amid the ever-changing regional and international environment.

• OPINION

  Mount Everest 'traffic jam' needs action

  News, Aditya Rana, Published on 02/06/2019

  » In 1852, Bengali surveyor and mathematician Radhanath Sikhdar, who was employed by the British under the ambitious Trigonometrical Survey of Indian subcontinent project, proclaimed "Peak XV" as the highest point on Earth at 8,840 metres.

• OPINION

  Back plastic waste-reduction pledge with deeds

  News, Published on 19/03/2019

  » Plastic pollution now litters the highest reaches of Mount Everest to the lowest depths of the ocean, with recent news documenting the prevalence of micro-plastic contamination in the Mariana Trench ecosystem. The news is a sobering reminder of the pervasive and systemic threat plastic pollution poses to the environment and the food chain.

• OPINION

  Commission on a mission

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 17/03/2019

  » "The Election Commission shall announce the result of the election", and there really hasn't been any more vast difference between the EC and the members of the public. It's not even supposed to be a worry. But everyone's worrying about the scraping of all the foreign votes and the vital gathering of all today's advance votes and the really major assembling next week of every one-person-one-vote.

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