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Climate hysteria in the media has really got to stop
News, Bjorn Lomborg, Published on 14/10/2025
» Reading the news, you would believe that the Great Barrier Reef -- the aquatic wonder off Australia's coast -- is on its deathbed, bleached beyond recognition by climate change. Recent headlines shouted in unison: "Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral decline on record." Environmental journalists are in panic mode about irreversible damage. This is advocacy campaigning, not impartial reporting.
'Future' foods to be dished out at Apec
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 02/11/2022
» Four out of 21 newly created "future" Thai dishes in the final round of the government's ongoing food startup competition will be selected to be served along with the formal menu designed by a renowned Thai chef at Apec 2022's gala dinner later this month.
Nation readies for new chapter
News, Editorial, Published on 07/11/2021
» The moment the nation has been praying for finally came last Monday after an 18-month spell where "Thainess" lost a little of its je ne sais quoi without the cacophonous backdrop of a steady stream of foreign tourists.
Plucky teens, city scrape, bike blues, ghostly flicks
News, Mae Moo, Published on 07/03/2021
» Teens with a point to prove
Cricket in Mexico, next stop the US and Canada
News, Post Reporters, Published on 18/02/2021
» Mexico is to import crickets from Thailand, after farmers and officials there struck a deal to generate revenue and elevate local dishes to global standards.
Farmers hop on to growing world trend
News, Phitsanu Thepthong, Published on 28/09/2020
» The fried crickets you buy from a roadside vendor are part of a thriving farming industry raising and exporting crickets now worth 1 billion baht a year.
US soldier returns 'home' as armies train together
News, Kornchanok Raksaseri, Published on 23/03/2020
» The ongoing Thai-US joint "Hanuman Guardian" army exercise was a good chance for Specialist Michael Lindemann, now 31, to visit the place where he lived and thinks of as "home" for the first time in eight years.
We need to look after creepy-crawlies
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 17/02/2019
» There was a disturbing report this week that the world is running out of insects, primarily due to pesticide poisoning. Having just read an article in which a scientist warned "if insects were to disappear, the world would fall apart", I suspect this is not good news. However, the world already seems to be falling apart without any help from absent insects. Admittedly the declining insect population is difficult to appreciate in Thailand where it is hard to experience a day without an encounter with some kind of bug. In my small garden there are plenty of crawling things creeping about, ready to sneakily bite me at the first opportunity.
Going in to bat for crickets
News, Post Reporters, Published on 08/03/2018
» The National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards (NBACFS) plans to support commercial cricket farms and improve the way the insects are farmed to fulfil the bureau's ambition to make edible crickets a new export product.