Coronavirus Update for Phuket & Thailand
Thursday 13th of January, 2022: As of January 12th Phuket has had 452 new local infections confirmed across the island, but no new deaths, bringing the total number of people recognised as infected with COVID-19 in Phuket since Apr 3 to 24,968. Phuket is still open to...
Sri Lanka’s ousted president arrives in Thailand for temporary stay
Former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrived in Thailand on Thursday, as he seeks temporary shelter in a second Southeast Asian country after fleeing his island nation last month amid mass protests. Rajapaksa...
Google opposes Facebook-backed proposal for self-regulatory body in India: sources
NEW DELHI (REUTERS) - Google has grave reservations about developing a self-regulatory body for the social media sector in India to hear user complaints, though the proposal has support from Facebook and Twitter, sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters....
The Taiwan Crisis Could Spill Over Into Southeast Asia
AdvertisementEven after her departure from Taiwan, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi controversial trip early this month has revived tensions in the Taiwan Strait, escalating the already tense relationship between China, Taiwan, and the United States. The visit to...
Pro-democracy activists reiterate demands at Wednesday’s rally after long hiatus
Pro-democracy groups have reiterated their core demands, for monarchy reform, the resignation of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his clique and the drafting of a People’s Constitution, at a rally yesterday at Thammasat University’s Rangsit campus in Pathum Thani,...
TAT co-hosts Thailand gastronomy networking event in India
Bangkok, 11 August, 2022 – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) recently co-hosted the ‘Amazing New Chapters: Thailand Gastronomy Experience Networking Lunch’ to promote and reiterate Thailand’s growing status as a world-class gastronomy tourism destination....
Former Workers Sue Multinational Firms Over Alleged Malaysian Labor Abuses
AdvertisementFormer workers at the Malaysian rubber glove maker Brightway Holdings have sued two foreign companies in a United States court, accusing them of “knowingly profiting” from the supplier’s alleged use of forced labor.The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday by...
The high price of a Sri Lankan family’s bid to flee crisis
KUDAMADUWELLA, SRI LANKA (REUTERS) - As anarchy gripped the Sri Lankan city of Colombo in May, Meenu Mekala and Nirosh Ravindra gambled their family's life savings on a two-week, 4,700km voyage aboard a rusting trawler with their two young sons. The decision ended in...
Belarus: Rights experts denounce withdrawal from key environmental agreement
The Aarhus Convention, adopted in 1998, also requires that individuals exercising these rights are not persecuted, penalized or harassed for doing so. Belarus’s President Aleksandr Lukashenko signed a decree on 18 July effectively ending the country’s...
Thailand agrees to allow former Sri Lankan president to take temporary shelter
More than eight months before an economic crisis and mass protests prompted him to flee Sri Lanka, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa presented his national statement during the World Leaders’ Summit at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain...
Like a scene from Parasite: Floods lay bare social disparity in South Korea
SEOUL (REUTERS) - Using a plastic bowl, Mr Ha In-sik bailed water out of his lower ground apartment in the low-income housing district of Sillim in southwestern Seoul on Wednesday (Aug 10), where flooding caused by torrential rain forced his family to sleep at a...
Hong Kong’s Domestic Workers: When ‘Stay at Home’ Means ‘Live at Work’
AdvertisementA typical Sunday in Hong Kong involves a sea of migrant domestic workers gathering in Central and Victoria Park. That has disappeared since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the city. The number of domestic workers who go out on Sundays, their usual rest day,...
DPM Prawit claims Prayut may be able to stay on as Thai PM for 2 more years
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha may be able to remain in office for two more years, if the Constitutional Court rules that his 8-year term does not come to an end by August 24th, as posited by opposition parties and anti-Prayut political groups, said Deputy Prime...