Deforestation and the killing off of the wildlife
Be it for selling in the pet or meat trade, killing for ridicules stone age minded health benefits, deforestation or use in hard labour, the exploitation of animals in the world, has a long, long history. It's not just the big named wildlife that are being effected....
Corona Virus Update for Phuket & Thailand
Wednesday 23rd September, 2020 (Covid-19 Update): People who like to live long term in Thailand will be happy to hear that long stay tourist visas will soon be available on Phuket and Thailand. On 15 September, the Thai Cabinet approved a proposal to issue long stay...
Students’ push for monarchy reform graduates to new level
Like other new graduates of Chulalongkorn University, probably Thailand’s most prestigious education institution, Aomtip spent the afternoon happily posing with family and friends during commencement day early this month. But as her classmates lined up for what...
Questions persist over giant Chinese soy trader’s traceability
The Chinese agribusiness giant COFCO International released plans in July to achieve full traceability of its direct soy suppliers in Brazil by 2023, an effort that could help curb the devastation of the Cerrado savanna biome. However, environmentalists say...
Malaysia’s king rejects PM’s proposal to declare emergency
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s king on Sunday rejected a proposal by embattled Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to declare a state of emergency to fight a new outbreak of the coronavirus. The plan by Muhyiddin, which involves suspending Parliament, has...
Three illegal immigrants caught at Thai-Myanmar border with ฿8m cash
Thai security officials seized about 8,000,000 baht in cash from three Chinese nationals today. They had slipped across the porous Thai-Myanmar border, in Mae Sot district of Thailand’s northwestern province of Tak. The man and two women were spotted by a Thai patrol...
COVID-19 virus found on fitness gear of hotel where infected French woman was quarantined
Health investigators have found COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) on the surface of a piece fitness equipment in the gym of a hotel in Samut Prakan province, where an infected French woman was quarantined, said Dr. Opas Karnkawinpong, Acting Director-General of the Disease...
To cut plastic packaging waste in cities, curb air pollution
Plastic waste is a growing environmental problem, with over 300 million tonnes consumed a year and an estimated eight million tonnes entering and polluting the seas and oceans each year.China alone discharges between 1.3 million and 3.5 million tonnes of plastic waste...
Four new COVID-19 cases recorded in Thailand on Saturday
Medical staff wait for people wishing to perform a free test in a mobile Covid-19 novel coronavirus swab testing site on Khao San Road in the famous backpacker district of Bangkok on October 12, 2020. Thailand today recorded four new COVID-19 cases, including a French...
North Korea is lonelier than ever
Oct 24th 2020SEOULIT WAS SATURDAY morning on the Korean peninsula and Friday evening in America when pundits and policymakers around the world tuned into North Korean state television. They had hoped to watch a military parade in Pyongyang, the capital, to mark the...
The pandemic has exposed South-East Asia’s poor governance
Oct 24th 2020IT HARDLY FOLLOWED the script intended by Thailand’s army-backed government. In the face of growing demonstrations calling for the resignation of the prime minister, a new constitution and a reformed monarchy, on October 15th the government imposed a...
A hard task ahead for Jacinda Ardern’s new government
Oct 24th 2020SYDNEYEVERYONE KNEW that the Labour Party would win. But even its leader, Jacinda Ardern, seemed startled by its landslide victory in New Zealand’s general election on October 17th. Ballots must still be counted from prisoners and expats, but so far...
ABN Amro Asia Pacific sustainability chief departs as bank cuts non-European corporate finance business
The Asia Pacific head of sustainability of ABN Amro has left the business, as the Dutch multinational bank scales back its operations in the region in the wake of the economic turmoil caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. ABN Amro exited the corporate and...
Malaysian PM Muhyiddin seeks king’s assent to declare emergency: sources
Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin / REUTERS Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin is seeking the king’s assent on Friday for the monarch to declare a state of emergency, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. The proposed emergency will...