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...
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...
TAT introduces Sato Triplets as ‘Thailand Tourism Ambassador in Japan’
Bangkok, 10 August, 2022 – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is introducing the popular idol group from Japan, the ‘Sato Triplets’ as the ‘Thailand Tourism Ambassador in Japan’, with the official introduction set to take place at the Amazing Thailand Night...
Robot arms are replacing shelf stockers in Japan’s convenience stores
TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) - Telexistence and FamilyMart are rolling out a fleet of AI-driven robots to restock shelves in 300 convenience stores across Japan. The robot arms are designed to replenish drinks in refrigerators and are now in mass production, Tokyo-based...
The Myanmar Military’s Roadmap to Survival
AdvertisementAs expected, Myanmar’s State Administration Council (SAC), also known as the military junta, last week extended the country’s state of emergency for another six months. Along with the extension, SAC Chairman Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing delivered a public...
Tokyo Has No ‘Plan B’ for Another Olympic Postponement
AdvertisementThere is no “Plan B” for the Olympics if they need to be postponed again because of the coronavirus pandemic, Tokyo organizers said Tuesday.Masa Takaya, the spokesman for the Tokyo Olympics, said organizers are proceeding under the assumption the Olympics...
Nuclear-free Mongolia a ‘symbol of peace in a troubled world’: Guterres
Mr. Guterres was speaking to journalists at a press conference in the capital, Ulaanbaatar, following a meeting with the Foreign Minister, Battsetseg Batmunkh. My gratitude to President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa & the people of Mongolia for their generous...
China discovers potentially fatal new virus passed to humans from shrews
China has discovered a potentially fatal new virus that is believed to have been passed to humans by shrews, according to reports.The Langya Henipavirus, known as “Langya,” has already infected 35 people, although no one has died or suffered a serious illness, says...
Kuroda Seiki: Who was the celebrated painter who brought Western style to imperial Japan?
Japanese artist Kuroda Seiki is the subject of the latest Google Doodle on the 156th anniversary of his birth.An influential painter of the late 19th and early 20th century, Seiki is credited with importing Western-style (or “yoga”) art theory to his homeland after...
S. Korea, China foreign ministers discuss N. Korea, K-pop ban
SEOUL (REUTERS) - The foreign ministers of South Korea and China held talks on Tuesday (Aug 9) as Seoul explores ways to reopen denuclearisation negotiations with North Korea and resume cultural exports, such as K-pop music and movies, to China. South Korea's top...