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Thai national parks boss honoured at Cites
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 04/12/2025
» Atthapol Charoenchansa, director-general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, has received an award for his work in wildlife protection at the 20th Conference of the Parties to Cites, held in Uzbekistan.
AI set to replace most humans
News, Stephen Jen, Published on 22/08/2025
» Is technology more job augmenting or job replacing? This has been a long-standing debate. But recent academic work suggests that technology has been a net destroyer of jobs for decades.
Thai students win medals at International Nuclear Science Olympiad
News, Online Reporters, Published on 07/08/2024
» Four Thai students won one gold medal and three silver medals at the first International Nuclear Science Olympiad 2024 (INSO 2024) which concluded on Wednesday.
Financing childhood growth
News, Joel E Cohen & John E Rogers, Published on 18/07/2023
» In 2020, chronic undernutrition stunted the growth of nearly a quarter of the world's children under five years old. Being too short for one's age, as a result of chronic undernutrition, can cause irreversible physical and cognitive damage and increases the risk of dying from common infections.
Reforms 'can't end' with legalised cannabis
News, Anucha Charoenpo in Melbourne, Published on 18/04/2023
» MELBOURNE: Former New Zealand prime minister and current member of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty, Helen Clark, has praised Thailand for decriminalising cannabis, but has also called on the country to end capital punishment, especially for those convicted of drug offences.
Parents mourn loss of daughter in quake
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan and Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 10/02/2023
» Grief-stricken parents are having a hard time accepting the loss of their 29-year-old daughter, who was found dead early Monday morning after the major earthquake in Turkey.
Time to act on conflict's impact
News, Helen Clark & Supachai Panitchpakdi, Published on 16/11/2022
» It is now nearly nine months since Russia invaded Ukraine. A war that should never have happened, and which Moscow hoped would be over in a matter of days, threatens to drag on endlessly. Estimates of military and civilian deaths vary wildly but are in the tens of thousands on each side. Over thirteen million Ukrainians have been displaced, about half of them across Europe and the other half internally. There has been inestimable damage to infrastructure and property. The approaching winter threatens to multiply misery many times over. As if the human suffering already experienced is not enough, the nightmarish spectre of the use of nuclear weapons lurks in the background.
Renewables key to 'independence'
News, Helen Clark & Dan Smith & Margot Wallstrom, Published on 13/04/2022
» Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shaken many long-held Western assumptions about the foundations of peace in Europe. Among other things, it has renewed policymakers' focus on energy dependence as a key strategic issue.
It all began with Rhett and Scarlett
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 27/03/2022
» With the Oscars upon us this weekend it seems an apt time to recall choice lines from past films.
Spivs, wide boys and dodgy kipper ties
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 22/11/2020
» Every now and again a word pops up which I have not heard for ages. That was the case recently with an email from a London-born friend who complained about "spivs" who had contributed to ruining his local football club's finances.