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Brazil leads on school meals, curbs processed foods
News, Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 07/04/2026
» Rio de Janeiro: Brazil's national school meal programme is being hailed as a global model for ensuring children's right to healthy food, even as the country battles industry resistance to broader regulations on ultra-processed products.
Exit the Snake, enter the Horse
News, Curtis S Chin and Jose B Collazo, Published on 30/12/2025
» As we bid farewell to 2025, and welcome 2026 -- and soon, the lunar Year of the Horse -- we once again highlight the winners and losers of the year gone by in Asia.
Asean leaders agree to admit Timor-Leste
News, Post Reporters, Published on 29/05/2025
» Leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) have agreed to admit Timor-Leste as its 11th Asean member at the next Asean summit in October, according to a senior Thai diplomat.
PM commends Miss Thailand
News, Post Reporters, Published on 20/11/2023
» Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has congratulated Anntonia Porsild, the Thai beauty queen who was named the first runner-up in the Miss Universe 2023 pageant in El Salvador yesterday, government spokesman Chai Wacharonke said yesterday.
Struggle against junta needs regional support
News, Daw Zin Mar Aung, Published on 04/09/2023
» Despite years of work to obtain a full seat in Asean, Timor Leste is now rethinking its membership because of the Southeast Asian body's failure to manage the Myanmar crisis. In August, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao announced that Asean's handling of Myanmar had caused Timor Leste to lose confidence in the grouping.
Different strokes for different folks
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 21/05/2023
» It was a bit alarming to learn the Eurovision Song Contest is still going strong, having celebrated its 67th year in Liverpool last weekend. The event had already looked the worse for wear back in the 1960s, but somehow it just won't go away. In fact it's got bigger and more brassy than ever -- an uninhibited celebration of kitsch.
Lessons from a World Cup win
News, Mario I Blejer, Published on 02/01/2023
» Much has been written, and even more has been said, about Argentina's impressive triumph in this year's World Cup tournament. Most of the media coverage, of course, has revolved around the Argentinian team's tactics and performance, the wild celebrations that followed the country's first world title win since 1986, and the potential political impact, given that the team's victory took place in an election year.
Thailand 'a model' for family planning
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 15/11/2022
» CHON BURI: Thailand's successes in implementing family planning schemes over the past few decades showed that the country could be a model for other nations which are now facing an explosion of new births, according to the director of Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Jose G Timon II on Monday.
Nations 'can benefit from global alliance'
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 21/02/2022
» The Muslim World League (MWL) secretary-general has called on all countries to promote peaceful coexistence in multicultural societies to achieve world peace.
Rescuers find missing Spanish couple
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 16/01/2021
» SURAT THANI: A Spanish couple has been found safe and well after going missing while on a walk in a forest on Koh Phangan.