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Peace on Earth? Democracy everywhere?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/12/2025
» Democracy is in retreat or at least on the defensive almost everywhere, while wars are getting bigger and more frequent. The trend lines are frighteningly bad.
Jane Goodall and the chimp wars
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/10/2025
» Jane Goodall died last week, still on the road at the age of 91 and still advocating for biodiversity in general and the welfare of chimpanzees in particular. She was a hero to me and millions of others for her courage, her wisdom and her compassion. She was also one of the greatest self-taught scientists in history.
Park ranger shot dead by pig hunter
News, Nujaree Raekrun, Published on 13/05/2025
» NAKHON SI THAMMARAT – A national park ranger was shot dead on Monday night by a local hunter who later explained that he mistook the ranger for a wild boar.
The crisis in West's AI industry needs attention
News, Charles Ferguson, Published on 10/02/2025
» The release of the Chinese DeepSeek-R1 large language model, with its impressive capabilities and low development cost, shocked financial markets and led to claims of a "Sputnik moment" in artificial intelligence. But a powerful, innovative Chinese model achieving parity with US products should come as no surprise. It is the predictable result of a major US and Western policy failure, for which the AI industry itself bears much of the blame.
Experts in medicine and public health honoured
News, Onnucha Hutasingh, Published on 23/11/2024
» Two winners of the Prince Mahidol Award this year in the fields of medicine and public health were announced on Thursday.
Calls for Maniq tribe to get their own patch
News, Post Reporters, Published on 11/09/2023
» A group of conservationists are calling for areas to be designated as conservation areas for the Maniq tribe, a group of hunter-gatherers commonly known as Sakai.
A resurgence of alliances is an echo of past wars
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/01/2023
» Alliances are as old as civilisation. Older, actually: almost every hunter-gatherer band that anthropologists have studied, from the New Guinea highlanders to the Yanomamo in the Amazon, made alliances with other groups to try to protect themselves.
Xi to attend Apec summit
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 29/09/2022
» Chinese President Xi Jinping has verbally confirmed his participation at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Bangkok on Nov 18-19, but no final decision from United States President Joe Biden has been received, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It all began with a soapy TV 'moustache'
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 18/09/2022
» With Liz Truss becoming the 56th British prime minister, it got me thinking about how many PMs there have been in my lifetime. The answer is 16, going back to Clement Atlee, which is a bit scary. In fact, while I was still residing in the UK there were only six PMs.
Indigenous rights bill languishes
News, Editorial, Published on 21/08/2022
» Thailand is home to over 6 million indigenous people. Yet many are outlawed, denied basic rights, and subject to many forms of oppression. This must change.