• OPINION

  A time for giving

  Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 07/01/2019

  » 'Please don't post them," I told my wife as I saw her taking pictures of me and my sister on New Year's Eve. It was a family activity and I have no time for social media drama. People's attitudes differ. Some might be supportive, others can be nasty.

• OPINION

  Bracing for the storm

  News, Editorial, Published on 04/01/2019

  » People across Thailand are praying for the southern region as Tropical Storm Pabuk, which originated in the South China Sea, inches closer to the coastline.

• OPINION

  Weathering the Covid storm

  Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 02/03/2020

  » The novel coronavirus outbreak has become a hot topic at home and in the office, something we've talked about almost every day as the health authorities try to educate people how to protect themselves from infection. Specialists have suggested that people shouldn't panic, but I can't help feeling nervous.

• OPINION

  Weathering the storm of flood, disaster response

  News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 11/01/2019

  » When Tropical Storm Pabuk hit last week, did you notice what element of Thailand's typical disaster response was absent in the rescue mission?

• OPINION

  Protecting Asia’s coastline from super-storm damage

  News, Published on 07/01/2019

  » Super storms fuelled by climate change are costing Asian countries money and lives. Thailand is the latest country to deal with the threat to both lives and property, with Pabuk being the first tropical storm in 2019 to hit the country's southern resort islands outside of the monsoon season for around 30 years.

• OPINION

  Hard lessons from Podul

  News, Editorial, Published on 03/09/2019

  » The serious damage to vast areas of the North and Northeast from Tropical Storm Podul is a testament to the country's water management failure.

• OPINION

  Freak storm a wake-up call

  News, Published on 26/03/2015

  » Bangkok was partly turned into a waterlogged city on Tuesday afternoon after just two hours of heavy rain. The unseasonal flooding in the middle of the hot summer has brought back painful memories of the severe flood in 2011 in the minds of quite a few Bangkokians, though this time around, the flooding was short-lived.

• OPINION

  Advancing environmental justice

  Oped, Published on 02/09/2023

  » Climate change is undoubtedly the defining challenge of our time, but its effects are not equally distributed. In both developed and developing countries, environmental degradation disproportionately affects communities marginalised because of race, ethnicity, religion, and poverty. More often than not, these communities are already confronting systemic inequalities such as water scarcity and greater exposure to pollution and extreme weather events -- all of which are exacerbated by the climate crisis.

• OPINION

  Cyclone season shows dire need for preparation

  News, Published on 15/01/2019

  » When reports of tropical storm Pabuk first emerged, there were initial concerns that it could become a repeat of tropical storm Harriet, which killed roughly 900 people in 1962, or killer Typhoon Gay which caused 833 deaths in 1989.

• OPINION

  Climate change hits southern part of Africa

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/04/2022

  » Tropical Storm Ana in January, Tropical Cyclone Batsirai in February, then Dumako, Emnati and Gombe in quick succession: three cyclones and two "tropical storms" in six weeks hitting the coasts of southeast Africa.

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