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Journalists shouldn't be neutral on climate change
Oped, Perry Parks, Published on 30/08/2024
» Last year was the hottest summer on record in the Northern Hemisphere. Earth's ocean surfaces were warmer in the first month of 2024 than any previously recorded January. And by the end of this year, global climate-related deaths since 2000 could exceed 4 million people, according to one estimate.
Mushrooms make their presence felt
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 16/10/2022
» The most exciting news of the week is that mushrooms were found growing on a seat of an active Bangkok bus. In addition to carrying passengers on the No 82 route from Phra Pradaeng to Phahurat, the bus featured a battered seat covered in newly sprouted mushrooms. Alas, the seat has now been replaced by spoilsport officials following complaints from passengers unimpressed by sitting next to a seat covered in fast-growing fungi.
If Roe goes, the end is nigh for women's rights
Oped, Antara Haldar, Published on 11/06/2022
» It used to be that who you were at birth defined who you were for the rest of your life: slave or owner, emperor or subject, aristocrat or serf, man or woman, black or white. But, over time, moral revolutions have chipped away at the idea that we simply inherit our identities.
South Korea: an example for Asean
Oped, Thanapat Pekanan, Published on 12/08/2021
» In late January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the outbreak of a new and deadly form of coronavirus in China, marking the pandemic as a global health emergency. Because of its close proximity to China and the contiguous nature of the regional landscape, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) was among the first regions of the world to be affected by the freely-moving virus.
The sorry plight of the bumblebee
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 29/03/2020
» A welcome distraction from the Coronavirus crisis came this week from a most unlikely source. Over the wall at the back of my Bangkok abode there is a drainage ditch which also hosts a couple of trees providing welcome shade for the rear of the house. On Thursday my wife summoned me to the back of the house. She pointed at one of the trees in animated fashion -- all I could see was leaves.
Score gold by protecting activists, not mine operators
News, Sutharee Wannasiri and Amy Smith, Published on 02/10/2018
» Thai authorities and a local gold mining company have targeted and violated the rights of environmental defenders involved in opposing a gold mine in northeastern Thailand for more than a decade, a new report conducted by Fortify Rights has found.
Tribalism and the politics of World Cup football fever
News, John Lloyd, Published on 02/07/2018
» Would fans lay down their lives for football? Bill Shankly, the legendary football player and Liverpool manager, once famously said he was "disappointed" with the idea that the sport was a matter of life and death. "I can assure you," he said, "it is much, much more important than that."