Coronavirus Update for Phuket & Thailand
Friday 20th August 2021: Coronavirus domestic travel screening and control measures for Phuket, Thailand has now been extended through to 31 August, 2021. The new Phuket Provincial Orders No. 4626/2564 and No. 4627/2564 will be in effect from 17-31 August, 2021. The...
Teachers brave tough terrain to deliver milk to children in Kanchanaburi
A group of about 20 dedicated teachers and volunteers braved four hours of rain, mud and flooded dirt roads in Thungyai Naresuan wildlife sanctuary, in Thailand’s western province of Kanchanaburi, to deliver milk to 55 children at a remote school. Although the Ban Koh...
ASEAN to Exclude Myanmar’s Leader From Summit in Key Rebuke
AdvertisementSoutheast Asia’s foreign ministers decided at an emergency meeting Friday not to invite Myanmar’s military leader to an annual summit for refusing to let an envoy meet ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a senior regional diplomat said.The move by the...
Seven Hong Kong activists jailed over unauthorised protest in 2020
HONG KONG (REUTERS) - Seven Hong Kong democracy campaigners, including former lawmakers, were sentenced on Saturday (Oct 16) to up to 12 months in jail for their role in a protest last year against a sweeping national security law imposed by China. The seven had...
11 Indonesian scouts die in river trek
BANDUNG (AFP) - Eleven students have drowned and two more are in critical condition after a trekking accident in Indonesia, an official said Friday (Oct 15). Some 150 members of an Islamic scouts group, aged from 13 to 15 years old, were walking along the Cileuleur...
U.S. to lift curbs from Nov. 8 for vaccinated foreign travelers – official
Travelers queue in a security line limited to every other lane for social distancing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Washington, U.S. April 12, 2021. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) – The White House will announce on Friday it...
Bitcoin tops $60,000, nears record high, on growing U.S. ETF hopes
LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Bitcoin hit $60,000 for the first time in six months on Friday, nearing its record high, as traders grew confident that U.S. regulators would approve the launch of an exchange-traded fund (ETF) based on its futures...
ADB to increase climate finance to US$100 billion
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will expand its climate financing goals by US$20 billion to a new target of US$100 billion over the period of 2019 to 2030, the multilateral bank’s chief said on Wednesday. “The...
Two Indian soldiers killed as Kashmir tensions escalate
SRINAGAR (AFP) - Suspected rebels killed an Indian army officer and a trooper during a manhunt in Kashmir, where 22 people have died in spiralling violence in the past two weeks, officials said Friday (Oct 15). The soldiers were chasing rebels in a forested area in...
Thailand Tourism Awards 2021 honours 185 Thai tourism enterprises
Bangkok, 15 October, 2021 – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is proud to present 185 Thailand Tourism Awards that recognise contributions from Thai tourism enterprises that upgraded the quality, professionalism, and service standards of the Thai travel and...
Malaysia’s Indigenous Penan block roads to end logging in Borneo
Indigenous Penan tribespeople have set up road blocks to stop a timber company from logging on land in Malaysian Borneo that they consider part of their ancestral heritage. The Penan erected their first blockade at Long Ajeng in the Upper Baram region of Sarawak state...
Cambodian PM Orders Authorities to Hunt Down Exiled ‘Extremist’ Poet
AdvertisementJust days after its snap amendment of the constitution over an errant line in an international newspaper report, the Cambodian government is doing everything it can to reinforce its reputation for hair-trigger overreactions. Earlier this week, the...
‘Terrifying’ warming predicted as country climate vows fail to add up
The world is on track to see “terrifying” climate impacts as stepped-up emissions-cutting plans filed by countries so far fail to limit fast-accelerating global warming, analysts said on Wednesday. More than two-thirds of about 195 countries that signed the 2015 Paris...