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Spike in Covid-19 cases sparks concerns
News, Post Reporters, Published on 17/06/2025
» A sharp rise in Covid-19 cases has been reported nationwide over the past week, with 76,161 new infections and 40 additional deaths, sparking renewed concerns over the ongoing outbreak.
Researchers find new fern species in Loei park
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 23/05/2025
» A team of researchers from Chulalongkorn University has discovered three new plant species during a survey of Phu Kradueng National Park in Loei, which they hope will be accepted as new entries in the world's botanical records.
Korat Zoo has Thailand's first Aldabra giant tortoise hatchlings
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 21/05/2025
» Korat Zoo has welcomed the arrival of 11 hatchlings of the Aldabra giant tortoise, the first zoo in Thailand to successfully breed the species.
Phu Kradueng cable car edges closer
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 17/05/2025
» The long-debated cable car project in Phu Kradueng National Park, Loei province, has once again come under public scrutiny, raising concerns about its alignment with sustainable development goals.
Victims of the violent South speak up
News, Published on 10/03/2025
» An ambulance bomb attack erupting in front of a pub beside the packed 80-room Southern View Hotel in Muang district of Pattani almost a decade ago has remained in the memory of Saibua Kaewmanee.
Health chiefs quell fears over recent flu spate
News, Post Reporters, Published on 23/06/2024
» Influenza has killed 14 people and sickened more than 180,000 others nationwide since the beginning of this year, according to the Department of Disease Control (DDC).
No need for Covid boosters
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 05/06/2024
» Most people do not need to get a booster against the latest strain of Covid-19, except for vulnerable groups and the unvaccinated, as the symptoms are relatively mild and the vaccine must be paid for, according to virologist Yong Poovorawan.
A 14th century warning for the 21st century
News, Max Hastings, Published on 12/02/2024
» A history student told me recently that he loves researching the 20th century but can't see the point of the Middle Ages. I responded that it can be a big help to understanding our own times -- very troubled times -- to view them in the context even of the remote past.
Why malaria still persists in much of Africa
News, Bjorn Lomborg, Published on 12/06/2023
» We think of malaria as a problem faced only by humid, hot countries. But just over a century ago, the disease thrived as far north as Siberia and the Arctic Circle, and was endemic in 36 states of the US. We don't have specific data that far back for Thailand, but back then, malaria is estimated to have killed 2.5 million people each year in the Western Pacific, Middle East and South Asia.
The only way to eliminate polio
News, Florence Gyembuzie Wongnaah, Published on 23/05/2023
» When Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was found to be safe and effective in 1955, following a successful trial involving nearly two million American children, it marked a turning point in the fight against a highly infectious disease causing incurable paralysis or even death. Prior to Salk's discovery, between 25,000 and 50,000 cases were recorded each year in the United States alone, and little was known about how the virus spread.