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Energy strategy pivot wins 'overwhelming support'
News, Alastair Marsh, Published on 21/04/2025
» Most banks in the industry's biggest climate alliance endorsed a proposal that will refocus the group on providing financial support for the energy transition and also hold signatories to a less stringent standard for reducing the emissions enabled by their lending.
Why banks keep lowering their climate targets
News, Alastair Marsh, Published on 12/03/2025
» When Morgan Stanley moved the goalposts back on its climate targets in October, members of the industry's biggest climate alliance were caught off guard.
Japan faces upheaval as LDP bloc loses majority
News, Alastair Gale & Yuki Hagiwara & Yoshiaki Nohara, Published on 29/10/2024
» Japan faces a period of political instability after the ruling coalition failed to win a majority in parliament for the first time since 2009, setting up a race among two main blocs to form a government.
Former Merkel rival aims to become chancellor
News, Sarah Marsh, Published on 24/09/2024
» Squeezed out of top-level politics by his arch-party rival Angela Merkel more than two decades ago, Friedrich Merz is on course to land his first-ever government job as Germany's next chancellor. The conservative Christian Democrat Party (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, which together are topping nationwide polls, last Tuesday agreed to nominate Mr Merz, 68, as candidate for chancellor in next year's federal election.
'Khok Nong Na' to help farmers facing drought
News, Published on 19/07/2024
» His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajiraklaochaoyuhua has created the "Khok Nong Na" (Mound, Marsh and Rice Field) model to help convey the true meaning behind his father's sufficiency philosophy and demonstrate how farmers can adopt it.
Promoting service through practical actions
News, Published on 10/07/2024
» The Khok Nong Na Model ("Mound, Marsh, and Rice Field") is an agricultural model invented by His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajiraklaochaoyuhua, which adapts sustainable economic principles for the people's happiness.
Heavy rain causes flooding in Yala and Narathiwat
News, Waedao Harai, Published on 26/12/2023
» Narathiwat: Two days of heavy rain in the South has caused widespread flooding in Narathiwat and Yala provinces, affecting 67 tambon (subdistricts) in 16 districts.
Cultural looting still a persistent crisis in SE Asia
News, Daoud Bouledroua, Nisit Intamano and Montakarn Suvanatap Kittipaisalsilp, Published on 14/11/2022
» The Nepalese conservationist Rabindra Puri, directing his own construction of a new Museum of Stolen Art in eastern Kathmandu speaks passionately about how he will feature replicas of stolen Nepalese antiquities, the originals having long ago been shipped overseas and since displayed in tourist attractions, art museums, or private residences, like hunting trophies.
P knowlesi malaria 'on the rise'
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 07/05/2022
» The government is warning that cases of malaria stemming from the Plasmodium knowlesi (P knowlesi) parasite are on the rise, leading to more than 70 cases in five months, about seven times the yearly average.
Hi-so marriage swindle unravels, runaway bride returns
News, Mae Moo, Published on 12/01/2020
» Hi-so conman from the slum