By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN as a final touch of the People’s electoral campaign a few days prior to the upcoming Sunday’s election, gigantic roadside signs are drawing attention among passers-by in Bangkok and the provinces as well as online viewers simply with a one-word message – Change. The People’s gigantic
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Somsak tightens control of cannabis distribution
PUBLIC Health Minister Somsak Theopsuthin today (June 24) signed an announcement to control distribution of cannabis ensuring it is no longer freely available and emphasizing “medical use only”, Amarin TV said this evening. The key point of the announcement is cancelling the ministry’s announcement issued in 2022 and now making cannabis, specifically the flowers/buds,
Read morePay to skip army draft idea floated
AN ARMY GENERAL has come up with the idea of allowing young men to pay to a fund in exchange of skipping compulsory army conscription with the cash to be used to increase compensation for volunteers, TV Channel 7 said this morning (Jan. 9). Lt. Gen. Thaweepol Rimsakorn, head of the Territorial Defence Command,
Read moreClimate change could force Bangkok to move, official warns
By AFP and published by CNA THAILAND may have to consider relocating its capital Bangkok because of rising sea levels, a senior official in the country’s climate change office told AFP on Wednesday (May 15). Projections consistently show that low-lying Bangkok risks being inundated by the ocean before the end of the century. Much
Read moreG7 holds ‘strategic’ talks in climate hotspot Italy
By AFP and published by CNA Turin, Italy – G7 ministers meet for environment and climate change talks in Turin today (Apr. 29), with experts urging the highly industrialised countries to use their political clout, wealth and technologies to end fossil fuel use. The Group of Seven meeting in the northern Italian city is
Read moreUN sounds clarion call over humans ‘irreversible’ impact on climate
By Reuters Staff, published by Channel NewsAsia THE UN panel on climate change sounded a dire warning today (August 9), saying the world is dangerously close to runaway warming – and that humans are “unequivocally” to blame. Already, greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere are high enough to guarantee climate disruption for decades if
Read moreMore countries hike climate pledges, piling pressure on major emitters
By Reuters Staff, published by US News & World Report Brussels – A group of mostly smaller countries submitted new, more ambitious climate pledges to the United Nations this week, raising pressure on big emitters including China to do the same ahead of a major UN climate summit in November. UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa
Read moreClimate change linked to 5 million deaths a year, new study shows
By Bloomberg, published by The Straits Times Sydney – The extraordinarily hot and cold temperatures that are becoming more common as climate change accelerates are responsible for five million deaths globally every year. Extreme weather accounted for 9.4 per cent of all deaths globally between 2000 and 2019, according to researchers who on Wednesday (July
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