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...
Landslide in India buries dozens, killing at least 18
NEW DELHI (NYTIMES) - At least 18 people were killed and more feared dead after days of heavy rainfall set off a landslide in India's remote and mountainous north-eastern state of Manipur. It is the latest tragedy in a country that has been plagued by catastrophic...
Pakistan: Reporting in a Pandemic
AdvertisementDisinformation has been growing since the outbreak of COVID-19 last December in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Social media users – including world leaders such as Donald Trump – shared false information about the virus, intensifying an already dire...
Telcos to help in properly managing overhead cables in Bangkok
Telecom service providers will be asked to tidy up their overhead cables in Bangkok, in a fresh bid to speed up the plan by the Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) and the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) to put all cables...
Myanmar Apologizes After Jet Fighter Violated Thai Airspace
AdvertisementMyanmar’s military junta has apologized to Thailand after one of its fighter jets briefly crossed into Thai airspace, on the same day that a senior Thai military delegation was paying court to the country’s generalissimo Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing.“We...
Jokowi Says Russia Agrees to Permit Vital Exports From Ukraine
AdvertisementIndonesian President Joko Widodo says that he has extracted an assurance from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin the he will permit much-needed shipments of food and fertilizer supplies to be exported from Ukraine.Jokowi, as he is commonly known, made...
In uncommon move, Apple hikes iPhone, iPad prices in Japan after yen tanks
TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) - Apple raised the prices of its iPhones and iPads in Japan in an uncommon move to account for the yen's precipitous drop in value this year. The Cupertino, California-based tech giant added as much as 25 per cent to the cost of its mobile gadgets in...
With mangrove conservation, Kenya’s coastal communities plant seeds of sustainable ‘blue growth’
Mangroves are tropical marine forests with huge potential. They protect coastlines from erosion and storm surge; and provide food and shelter for a diverse array of wildlife, and nursery habitats for commercially important fish and shellfish.They also fight climate...
New Collectors Boost Chinese Public Art Fairs
AdvertisementArt Basel, the world’s most well-known public art fair, opened for the first time in 1970 in Switzerland. Art Fairs like Basel made collections of galleries from various countries accessible to both critics and students, allowing wealthy buyers to collect...
US Supreme Court ruling on environmental protection ‘a setback in our fight against climate change’
He was responding to a question at the regular noon briefing at UN Headquarters in New York, about the ruling, which in effect strips away the power of the EPA to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.The case was brought against the US Government agency by the state of...
New UN financing initiative goes live to power climate action
The Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) is a key building block for a new initiative spearheaded by UN Secretary-General General António Guterres to ensure that early warning services cover everyone on Earth, within the next five...
Battle for Myanmar military base continues
The Oukayithta military base, located in the northern Myawaddy Township in Kayin State, came under attack on June 26th. A major offensive was launched by the Karen National Defence Organization and Karen National Liberation Army (KNDO/KNLA). So far, reports of...
Thai air force scrambles fighters after alleged incursion by Myanmar aircraft
The Royal Thai Air Force sent two F-16 jet fighters after an aircraft, believed to be a MiG 29 of the Myanmar air force, was found to have intruded into Thai airspace in the western province of Tak, according to RTAF Spokesman Air Vice Marshal Prapas Sornchaidee. He...