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Food chain 'must change'
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 29/04/2022
» The government is investing to accelerate food system transformation with a focus on knowledge and technology-based investment in a bid to ensure the country's food security, while reaffirming its commitment to the UN's framework through the Bio-Circular-Green Economy (BCG) model.
Tourism banking on digital realm
Business, Dusida Worrachaddejchai, Published on 11/04/2022
» The Covid outbreak has been a catalyst for disrupting the tourism and digital landscapes, hastened when social media giant Meta (formerly Facebook) announced a rebranding towards the metaverse last year.
The crisis of unintended pregnancy
News, Published on 11/04/2022
» Mother and daughter, Liza and Agnes, living in a small seaside community of St Bernard in the Philippines, recalled the day Super Typhoon Rai made landfall. When I visited them, they told me that when the typhoon hit, the wind sounded like a thousand horses thundering through the community and ripping houses and families violently apart, destroying thousands of lives, and disrupting access to critical health services.
CEO Pay Increases and Heads for New Record as Pandemic Recedes
Business, Published on 05/04/2022
» Pay increases for U.S. chief executives have gained steam, putting compensation on pace to set a record amid a tight labor market that is also driving pay higher for many of their workers.
Industry urges longer-term solutions
Business, Published on 04/04/2022
» The government should come up with not only short-term measures, but also medium and long-term plans to cope with the impact of the global oil price surge and the Russia-Ukraine war, according to industrialists in various sectors.
Groundwater: Making the invisible visible
Asia focus, Published on 28/03/2022
» Climate change is causing global temperatures to rise, putting our most visible sources of water at risk. From Spain to parts of the African continent, droughts are being experienced at unprecedented levels. Madagascar last year faced a food crisis that left 1.3 million people facing severe hunger following the worst drought in four decades.
GCNT presents SDGs Mega Trends 2022: New trends for private sectors to transform business and tackle climate change
Published on 25/03/2022
» Thailand’s largest sustainability network, Global Compact Network Thailand (GCNT), has published the “SDGs Mega Trends 2022” report as a sustainable development framework focusing on transformation for protection and solutions to climate changes, vital for businesses to start reformation.
Tech platform Primero launched in Thailand to help social workers better protect children
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 24/03/2022
» Unicef and the Ministry of Public Health recently launched an innovative platform to protect vulnerable children from physical and emotional violence.
Fee schools feel chill
News, Published on 13/03/2022
» Few sectors have escaped the havoc wrecked by Covid-19 and privately run education is no exception.
Closing the global childcare gap
Oped, Published on 11/03/2022
» When Covid-19 lockdowns began, the importance of affordable childcare suddenly became a lot clearer to many more people, especially working women. Last year, women worldwide spent three times as many hours as men providing additional unpaid childcare, losing an estimated US$800 billion (26 trillion baht) in income as a result. The gender gap in childcare provision is even wider in low- and middle-income countries. In India, for example, women provided ten times as much unpaid childcare as men.