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Car bomb injures 2 soldiers, damages houses
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 30/09/2024
» NARATHIWAT: A car bomb injured two soldiers and set houses ablaze when it was detonated near the Tak Bai district chief’s house in this far southern province late Sunday night.
Dugong population increasing
News, Post Reporters, Published on 08/12/2022
» The dugong population in the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea appears to be on the rise as indicated by the latest count this year, according to the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources.
Hi-so clubbing, Covid explosion: Krystal clear
By Hannah Beech and Muktita Suhartono, The New York Times, Published on 06/06/2021
» When the VVIP customers disembarked from their limousines at the Krystal Exclusive Club, young women in tiaras, angel wings and not much else sometimes greeted them.
Poor communities take virus fight into own hands
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan and Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 04/05/2021
» The air is thick with fear of contagion in the slum of Klong Toey, where many people live eave-to-eave in its densely populated neighbourhoods.
Jumbo death spurs call to shun plastic bags
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 12/07/2020
» The latest loss of a wild elephant which died with plastic bags in its intestines and stomach showed the public campaign to reduce plastic bags was "falling on deaf ears", Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Minister Varawut Silpa-archa says.
Bags of opportunities
News, Published on 01/10/2019
» A whale found in Songkhla last year and a baby dugong Mariam are among the victims. Two million tons of plastic debris is tossed away into the ocean each year, killing an uncountable number of marine creatures. Thailand ranks the world’s sixth-biggest generator of plastic waste into the sea but now the tragic deaths of marine life are alarming and waking us up to the need to protect and rehabilitate the environment - not only for animals, but for our own descendants.
Collaboration key to ending plastic waste
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 30/09/2019
» Environment Minister Varawut Silpa-archa’s asking 43 giant retailers, major plastic manufacturers and leading department stores to stop handing out single-use plastic bags starting January next year is a game changer in Thailand’s ongoing campaign to end plastic waste.
Young dugong Marium dies in nursery tank
Published on 17/08/2019
» Marium, the baby dugong whose fight to recover from illness won hearts and cast a spotlight on ocean conservation, has died from an infection exacerbated by bits of plastic lining her stomach, officials said on Saturday.
Baby dugong Mariam is ill, condition 'worrying'
Published on 12/08/2019
» Mariam the baby dugong has developed a serious illness after being attacked by an adult dugong while swimming in the Andaman Sea.
Mounting dugong deaths cause alarm
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 15/07/2019
» Two more dugongs were found dead on Sunday, one off the coast of Krabi and the other in Trang, bringing the death toll to five in four months, said Kongkiat Kittiwatanawong, director of Phuket Marine Biological Centre.