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Lung diseases kill yet remain overlooked
News, Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 18/11/2025
» A senior representative from the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged all stakeholders -- governments, clinicians, journalists and advocates -- to confront chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs), particularly Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), in the lead-up to World COPD Day on Wednesday.
China expands grip on wind energy
News, Ron Bousso, Published on 30/10/2025
» European governments seeking to expand offshore wind power are increasingly wary of Chinese companies' involvement. Countering China's dominance will be time-consuming and expensive, but political pressure and national security concerns may give the region little choice.
Missing pieces in clean power bid
News, Areeporn Asawinpongphan, Annop Jaewisorn & Korn Amnauypanit, Published on 30/07/2025
» Two missing pieces in Thailand's clean energy sector cast doubt on whether Thailand can reach its ambitious goals of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 and net-zero emissions by 2065.
Summer storm alert issued
News, Published on 25/03/2025
» Summer storms are expected to hit the country at the end of the month, as a cold air mass is forecast to sweep across the Northeast starting on March 29, according to the Thai Meteorological Department.
Time to let Afghan women lead
News, Palwasha Hassan & Shafiqa Khpalwak, Published on 10/03/2025
» This year's International Women's Day is marked by a sense of foreboding, even despair. Progress on women's rights and representation is stalling: the number of women in parliaments grew last year at the lowest rate in a generation, and the global financing gap for gender initiatives remains wide. At a time of widespread democratic backsliding -- and with US President Donald Trump freezing foreign aid, including for gender initiatives -- the prospects for improvement appear bleak.
Qatar seeks release of last Thai hostage
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 07/02/2025
» Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday stressed its commitment to helping secure the release of the last Thai hostage still held captive by Hamas.
Cues from Iran on who to vote for
News, Marc Champion, Published on 03/07/2024
» The opposition just won a first round of elections, forcing a runoff in which everything depends on where third-party votes go. No, not in France -- in Iran. You could be forgiven for missing it amid all the excitement over the advance of the French hard right, President Joe Biden's car crash debate in the US and the coming immolation of the UK's Conservative Party. Yet Iran's experience is worth attention, not least as a reminder of what to vote for and why. Iran, to recap, is having a snap contest to replace President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a May helicopter crash. Raisi was also being groomed to succeed the 85-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, the unelected post that -- as the title suggests -- matters most in the Islamic Republic.
Mass Thai evac plan readied
News, Wassana Nanuam and Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 03/11/2023
» The government is planning a mass evacuation of Thais in Israel as the Israel-Gaza war is expected to escalate, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said.
Tourist figures soar over long weekend
News, JAKKRIT WAEWKLAIHONG AND PRASIT TANGPRASERT, Published on 23/10/2023
» TRAT: A large number of visitors flocked to the island of Koh Chang over the three-day holiday this weekend.
UK mansion once occupied by Rama VII goes up for sale
News, Published on 30/07/2023
» A British mansion where King Prajadhipok once lived in the late 1930s following his abdication from the Thai throne has gone on the market for a sum of £5.5 million (or about 240 million baht).