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Blackpink back to dominate global charts
News, Online Reporters, Published on 12/07/2025
» Blackpink’s comeback track, “JUMP,” has claimed the number one spot on major charts across regions, with its music video amassing over 30 million views on YouTube following its release on Friday.
Vapes ape comics to lure kids
News, Onnucha Hutasingh, Published on 23/03/2024
» Academics are warning about a new type of e-cigarette called "toy pods", which are presented like replicas of popular cartoon characters to target school and university students.
The rise of consumer cryptocurrency
News, Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers, Published on 26/02/2024
» Since its inception with the launch of Bitcoin in 2008, blockchain technology has gone through numerous cycles of public attention. Over time, growing interest and investment in the best-known cryptocurrencies has led to greater acceptance, as highlighted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission's approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF (exchange-traded fund) in January. While blockchains and their associated "crypto" assets have yet to be adopted by a truly broad base of consumers, that is starting to change, owing to a shift in how these technologies are being used.
Three orangutans heading back to Indonesia
News, Oraphin Phangyang, Published on 12/12/2023
» National parks staff will return three smuggled orangutans to Indonesia under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wildlife Fauna and Flora (Cites) next Thursday.
Pata Zoo denies acquiescing in deal to sell prized ape
News, Post Reporters, Published on 23/10/2022
» Pata Zoo has denied there is a deal in place to sell the country's last gorilla, Bua Noi, for 30 million baht so she can be relocated to Germany, saying her management never thought of putting a price on the cherished animal to gain profit.
'Bua Noi' may finally make ape escape
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 22/10/2022
» After three decades in captivity at a private zoo in Bangkok, the well-known gorilla, Bua Noi, may finally be granted a return "home" to where she was born in Germany, if the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment's plan to repatriate her is a success.
SCB 10X’s ‘moonshot’ mission
News, Published on 14/01/2022
» Established in January 2020, SCB 10X, a holding company among other subsidiaries of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB Group) was given a “Moonshot Mission” to achieve exponential growth through technology innovations and investments beyond banking via its three arms: Venture Builder, Venture Capital, and Strategic Investment & Partnership.
2 orangutans going home to Indonesia next month
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 09/11/2019
» The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation will repatriate two orangutans to Indonesia under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites) treaty by the end of December.
Creatures great and small, bless them all
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 02/09/2018
» At the end of this month Dusit Zoo, better known as Khao Din, is shutting its gates after 80 years. Its 1,300 residents are moving to temporary accommodation in six provincial zoos until their new home opens in Pathum Thani in another three years. Moving can be quite a traumatic experience for animals, and we wish them all well.
Driving in reverse
News, Published on 28/07/2018
» Comparatively speaking, the conscripts/servants issue in the Thai armed forces is only adding to the military junta's declining image. Its continued existence only benefits a few thousand "generals", not the majority of the Thai armed forces or the country at large. In short, they are driving a car in reverse gear. It is clearly a conflict of interest, an important principle which should be tackled and utilised in the military junta's "reform policy".