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3 major narcotics busts hailed at Suvarnabhumi
News, Post Reporters, Published on 28/06/2024
» The Customs Department announced its recent successes yesterday, with arrests made in three major narcotics cases.
Solar geoengineering won't help
News, Yacob Mulugetta & Dean Bhekumuzi Bhebhe & Niclas Hällström, Published on 15/04/2024
» At the most recent United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), held in Nairobi, African countries took a strong stand against potential new technologies that, if developed, could tip an already disrupted climate into chaos.
There are rays of hope in Bangkok
News, Nicky Davies, Published on 30/10/2023
» It's not been widely covered, but the world is making progress in significantly reducing plastic production. This was on display at the Economist Impact's Global Plastics Summit in Bangkok this month and will continue in Nairobi next month.
Abandoned trawler crew on way home
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 08/08/2019
» The Thai fishing crewmen abandoned on a vessel in the sea off Somalia on the Horn of Africa are on their way home, according to the Foreign Ministry.
Reproductive rights must be the new reality for all
News, Bjorn Andersson, Published on 11/07/2019
» About 25 years ago, a sweeping consensus on population and development was reached at a landmark meeting in Cairo -- the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, or ICPD.
Democrats' 'Green New Deal' isn't global enough
News, Mihir Sharma, Published on 18/03/2019
» At the fourth United Nations Environment Assembly in Kenya this past week, experts and officials from around the world debated how to come up with the investment and innovation needed for countries to grow without dooming the planet. National leaders, NGOs and others discussed how to create more "sustainable patterns of consumption and production". What really struck me in Nairobi, though, was what wasn't discussed: the "Green New Deal" being pushed by Democratic Party politicians in the US.
Defence is no joking matter
News, Editorial, Published on 23/01/2019
» Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon has been rightly pilloried in both local and foreign media lately. He has shown himself to be lacking in a too-long series of events. These have run from his luxury watches to last weekend's tasteless feast of mangoes and sticky rice. Still, there was something especially disconcerting and disappointing in his offensive and supremely unfunny "joke" about last week's terrorist attack on the Thai-managed DusitD2 hotel complex in Nairobi.
Prawit maintains media silence after Kenya 'joke'
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 19/01/2019
» Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon has not spoken to reporters for two days, since being criticised for treating the deadly terrorist attack on a Nairobi hotel as a joke.
Prawit's joke in bad taste
News, Editorial, Published on 18/01/2019
» As one of the country's leaders, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon should be keen to avoid bad jokes, especially ones that -- due to a lack of sensitivity -- could hurt the feelings of people in mourning, not to mention embarrass Thailand diplomatically.
Animal welfare key to Dusit Zoo move
News, Editorial, Published on 12/08/2018
» At the end of this month, Bangkokians will bid farewell to Dusit Zoo, as the final curtain falls for the site, treasured by many not just as a recreational edutainment place, but also as a vast green space in the heart of the capital.