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Thailand, Australia boost pharma ties
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 28/03/2026
» Thailand and Australia have strengthened cooperation on regional health security through a jointly funded biopharmaceutical initiative combining investment, technical exchange and institutional partnerships.
Rural school funding reforms piloted
News, Published on 21/03/2026
» The Equitable Education Fund (EEF) is piloting a new budget allocation formula to support small, remote schools, aiming to improve access, efficiency and student outcomes.
Terminal volunteers can save lives
News, Peter Singer & Benjamin L Sievers, Published on 13/09/2025
» At the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), a programme called Last Gift offers terminally ill patients the opportunity to help create more effective treatments. Their special circumstances transform the usual risk-benefit calculus of joining a clinical study of an untested drug. Researchers can ask them to consider consenting to being research participants in ways that they would not ask healthier people with long life expectancies, and terminally ill patients may choose to give that consent when others would be less likely to do so.
Ukraine books in the spotlight
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 05/06/2025
» The Ukrainian Embassy and Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) have launched the first "Ukrainian Bookshelf" at Bangkok City Library on Ratchadamnoen Klang Road, aiming to strengthen cultural and literary ties.
Time to let Afghan women lead
News, Palwasha Hassan & Shafiqa Khpalwak, Published on 10/03/2025
» This year's International Women's Day is marked by a sense of foreboding, even despair. Progress on women's rights and representation is stalling: the number of women in parliaments grew last year at the lowest rate in a generation, and the global financing gap for gender initiatives remains wide. At a time of widespread democratic backsliding -- and with US President Donald Trump freezing foreign aid, including for gender initiatives -- the prospects for improvement appear bleak.
War 'no obstacle' to ramping up relations
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 19/11/2024
» The war between Ukraine and Russia officially enters its 1,000th day on Tuesday, but despite the ongoing conflict, Kyiv remains committed to strengthening ties with countries in Southeast Asia to create new partnerships for mutual growth and secure additional assistance to end the war and get justice for its citizens.
AI's brain fog no defence for arts
News, Parmy Olson, Published on 05/07/2024
» Ever notice how science fiction gets things wrong about future technology? Instead of flying cars, we got viral tweets that fuelled culture wars. Instead of a fax machine on your wrist, we got memes. We're having a similar reality check with artificial intelligence. Sci-fi painted a future with computers that delivered reliable information in robotic parlance. Yet businesses who've tried plugging generative AI tools into their infrastructure have found, with some dismay, that the tools "hallucinate" and make mistakes. They are hardly reliable. And the tools themselves aren't stiff and mechanistic either. They're almost whimsical.
Pattaya facelift prompts switch to one-way traffic
News, Chaiyot Pupattanapong, Published on 02/03/2024
» Chon Buri: Pattaya City began directing vehicles from March 1 to move in one direction on a 3.7-kilometre section of its beachfront street in preparation for a landscaping facelift in the Jomtien Beach area.
Musk must be more transparent about Neuralink
News, F D Flam, Published on 05/02/2024
» When researchers with Elon Musk's company Neuralink implanted a chip in someone's brain, they were working under a Food and Drug Administration clearance. But that doesn't mean this experiment was safe or ethical.
Pure science research 'worth it'
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 16/11/2023
» A Nobel Prize awardee says putting more money on pure science research and development is worth it due to the unexpected results that could end up changing the world or, in the very least, turn out to be a good commercial business.