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By Jove, it's the bycatch
Postbag, Published on 10/08/2025
» Re: "The human toll behind your seafood", (Opinion, July 28).
Smart tax move
Postbag, Published on 24/05/2025
» Re: "Department to amend tax on foreign income remittance", (Business, May 19).
Recover Mekong's forgotten fish
News, Lan Mercado, Published on 04/03/2024
» Fish that walk, and even ones that talk, stingrays the size of cars, minnows smaller than your fingernail, snail-eating pufferfish and ghostly salmon carp. These are just some of the 1,148 extraordinary fish species hidden beneath the surface of the Mekong river's murky waters for millennia.
Live to swim, and swim to live
News, Editorial, Published on 17/07/2023
» Friday was Shark and Ray Awareness Day, an annual reminder to raise awareness of these incredible creatures that roam the oceans. Sharks and rays belong to a group of fish known as elasmobranchs, which includes over 1,200 species.
Lake bridge needs review
News, Editorial, Published on 24/10/2022
» The cabinet last week approved 6.6 billion baht for construction of two bridges in southern region -- one of which raises fears about its impact on rare and endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in Songkhla Lake.
Stingray tale harks to Mekong risks
Oped, Johanna Son, Published on 15/06/2022
» Before she helped to release a 181-kilogramme giant stingray back into the Mekong River in May, Chea Seila had only seen parts of the pancaked-shape fish before -- sliced and being sold at local markets in Cambodia.
Asean must save its biodiversity
Oped, THERESA MUNDITA S LIM, Published on 08/03/2022
» Approximately 20% of the planet's vertebrate and plant species are found only in the Asean region and nowhere else in the world. Home to four biodiversity hotspots and three of the 17 megadiverse countries in the world, Asean has extraordinarily high levels of richness of species and endemism.
Becoming Long John Silver just for a day
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 19/09/2021
» Important news. Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, on which everyone is encouraged to speak in the manner of a buccaneer, sea dog, corsair, picaroon or whatever you wish to call them. If you are desperate Captain Jack Sparrow impersonations will suffice.
Are we ready for the first real automatons?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/01/2021
» They were planning to put on a play written by an artificial intelligence programme in Prague, capital city of the Czech Republic, this month, to mark the invention of robots (or at least the idea of robots) in the same city exactly one hundred years ago. The coronavirus pandemic got in the way of that, and it will now only be available free online late next month. Kind of symbolic, really: the future is quite different than what they expected.
The future is not mass tourism
Oped, Adis Israngkura & Kanjana Yasen, Published on 23/09/2020
» A huge challenge awaits Thailand as plans are afoot to open up the country to rescue the tourism industry: How to prevent a new round of environmental onslaught from mass tourism.