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Apec host's budding marijuana industry faces backlash
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/11/2022
» Near the grand conference halls in central Bangkok where Asian leaders will meet this week, a plethora of marijuana shops - the Thai capital's newest tourist draw - were bustling despite a controversy that threatens the growing sector.
UK budget set to deliver more economic pain
AFP, Published on 17/11/2022
» LONDON - Britain is set Thursday to unveil hefty tax rises and spending cuts at the risk of worsening a cost-of-living crisis for millions in the recession-bound economy.
Two airlines post losses, burdened by fuel prices
Business, Molpasorn Shoowong, Published on 17/11/2022
» Bangkok Airways Plc (BA) posted a net loss of 393 million baht in the third quarter, while Asia Aviation Plc (AAV), the major shareholder of Thai AirAsia (TAA), racked up a net loss of 4.1 billion baht as the two carriers were pressured by increasing costs driven by surging fuel prices.
Nuclear power is not the answer in the real world
Oped, Antony Froggatt, Published on 17/11/2022
» Just as Russia's invasion of Ukraine has highlighted Europe's dangerous dependence on fossil fuels, increasingly frequent and intense climate-driven weather events are highlighting the death and destruction that fossil-fuel dependence has wrought.
Beko backs Thailand as production hub
Business, Published on 17/11/2022
» Beko, one of the three largest white goods companies in Europe, is promoting Thailand as a manufacturing hub for Asia-Pacific, the US, Canada, Africa and Europe, presenting its Rayong factory as a model site for the brand's leading technologies.
It's the energy system, stupid
Oped, Vanessa Nakate and Rachel Kyte, Published on 17/11/2022
» Ordinary people around the world are suffering from two massive, overlapping problems: surging living costs and the fallout from a rapidly warming climate. In the Horn of Africa, 22 million people are at risk of starvation, owing to the failure of four consecutive rainy seasons and soaring global grain prices.