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Dugong decline spurs seagrass efforts
News, Post Reporters, Published on 17/10/2025
» The Thai Coral Reef and Marine Life Conservation Foundation is stepping up its efforts to restore seagrass beds across the Andaman Sea, following reports of a drastic decline in dugong populations caused by food shortages and deteriorating marine ecosystems.
Time to boost South-South ties
News, Jong-Jin Kim, Published on 12/09/2024
» In the Asia-Pacific region, countries are turning increasingly toward their neighbours for ideas on sustainable development.
Every child deserves hope and a future
News, Kyungsun Kim, Published on 20/11/2023
» Today, countries around the world are honouring World Children's Day by celebrating and focusing on the rights of children. In 2023, this day carries particular weight and meaning, with so many children around the world dying and suffering as a result of heartbreaking disasters, including armed conflicts.
Act now to end food insecurity
News, Kate Hampton & David Miliband, Published on 20/11/2023
» In London today, the United Kingdom hosts the Global Food Security Summit and launch a new strategy for international development. Despite pressing crises like the conflict in Gaza, we must stay focused on other parts of the global system, where ongoing crises of hunger, malnutrition, and food insecurity demand an urgent response. Faced with immense suffering around the world, we need a UK government that is willing and able to offer solutions.
Financing childhood growth
News, Joel E Cohen & John E Rogers, Published on 18/07/2023
» In 2020, chronic undernutrition stunted the growth of nearly a quarter of the world's children under five years old. Being too short for one's age, as a result of chronic undernutrition, can cause irreversible physical and cognitive damage and increases the risk of dying from common infections.
Afghan humanitarian crisis widens
News, John J. Metzler, Published on 12/09/2022
» One year after the appalling collapse of Afghanistan in August last year into the hands of the Taliban insurgents, the humanitarian crisis in that beleaguered South Asian country has gone from bad to worse.
Porn on the streets
News, Postbag, Published on 26/03/2022
» Along Sukhumvit Road from Nana junction towards Asoke are many roadside shops selling sex toys, pornographic movies and related items.
Get your boots on
News, Postbag, Published on 31/01/2022
» Re: "Oil spill last straw for Rayong tourism", (BP, Jan 30).
Why go silent on singer
News, Postbag, Published on 09/01/2022
» Re: ''Covid measures in place for Phuket's NY countdown", (BP, Dec 30).
Do you suffer from malnutrition? Quite possibly
News, Kundhavi Kadiresan, Published on 18/10/2019
» The word "malnutrition" tends to evoke images of starving children in refugee camps, fleeing conflict or drought in faraway lands. While that image does reflect a reality of hunger, it does not solely define malnutrition or those who suffer from it.