PATTAYA: Three foreigners have been detained for violating the emergency decree after they were found swimming at a closed beach behind a hotel in this resort city on Saturday.

SURAT THANI: A Spanish man has allegedly stabbed a Chilean man to death on Koh Phangan in this southern province.

Five teachers at a public school in Mukdahan have been suspended after being charged in connection with repeated sexual assaults against a 14-year-old girl. Two school alumni are also accused of having taken part, and all are said to have taken video of the acts.

Women Deliver Young Leaders perform vital work on the frontlines of the pandemic response

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The international community is developing policy measures and actions to help the people most vulnerable to drought to take early action to avoid loss of life, and the heavy and growing losses of livelihoods and damage to property and ecosystems following droughts. The Intergovernmental Working Group on Drought (IWG) that is leading this initiative is […]

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Water security and profitability are the Achilles heels of the plan to modernise 60 hydroelectric plants in Mexico, drawn up by the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Most of them are power plants built more than 50 years ago, so the upgrading plan poses technical and feasibility challenges. López Obrador has insisted on […]

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Vanessa Nakate of Uganda may have been cropped out of a photograph taken at the World Economic Forum, but she along with Swedish activist Greta Thunberg have made the climate crisis centre stage. Women Deliver Young Leader Jyotir Nisha discusses with Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada on how to harness young people to overcome […]

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Leonardo Beltran is Non-Resident Fellow of the Institute of the Americas, Member of the Board of SEforALL, and former Deputy Secretary at the Mexican Department of Energy

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Dr Mah Hui Lim has been a university professor and banker, in the private sector and with the Asian Development Bank.
Dr. Michael Heng, Former professor in Management Science.

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The mining sector in Africa is facing radical change as youth activists take action against the environmental degradation caused by mining industries. Tensions between activists and the mining industry have raised, however, concerns over human rights abuses. Kenya’s National Coalition for Human Rights Defenders reported, for instance, cases of harassment and intimidation “against at least […]

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Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ESCAP

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Rosa Manzano carefully arranges pieces of wood in a big mud igloo that, seven days after it is full, will produce charcoal of high caloric content. “Our forest also produces oak, which in the past was only sold as firewood and had little value. But with forest management and the work of women who have […]

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Savio Carvalho is a Global Campaign Leader at Greenpeace International. Twitter: @savioconnects

 
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it
                                                                                                               ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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Sexual and reproductive health and pandemics might seem to be unrelated topics, but large and dense populations are drivers of the high velocity transmission of COVID-19, and there are lessons to be learned for the future. Gains made in women’s sexual reproductive health and rights just took several steps backward in the midst of the […]

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WHO has warned that Africa could be become the next epicentre of the pandemic.

Ethiopia is set to begin filling GERD reservoir in June and July raising serious concerns.

Country hit series of riots in the last two weeks resulting in over a dozen and a half deaths.

The 234 passengers are expected to undergo quarantine for 14 mandatory days.

Ten of the patients are in Nairobi, three in Mombasa and one in Machakos.

The state-owned carrier has been fighting for its survival since December.

Soldiers say they suspected aircraft was on suicide attack mission at the airstrip.

Govt says there were confrontation between ruling party supporters and opposition.

At least 200 people have been killed in Kenya and 10,000 people displaced.

All cargo destined for neighbouring countries will now be loaded onto the SGR.

The govt says it is facilitating those whose travel plans were disrupted by pandemic.

Wealthier African countries tend to impose more stringent rules, which have cost the continent $65 billion.

Efforts include trimming of non-core expenditures such as travel and trainings.

SGR allocated almost half of the development budget of the Ministry of Works.

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, there are no allocations for additional food relief

Kenya reports a total of 649 cases, 207 recoveries and 30 deaths.

It’s always worth listening to smart people with ideas that go against the grain.

Most candidates won’t work, but it’s essential to be ready to mass-produce the one that does.

The pandemic has ratcheted Sino-American tensions up to 11.

NGOs and trade unions played a vital role in complementing government testing and tracing.

Will Japan end up in the group of countries that is on the way to successfully containing the virus or in the group that experiences ...

The coronavirus crisis has exposed grave vulnerabilities in the nation's medical services.

The U.S.-Japan relationship is going to come through this pandemic even stronger than before.

Monetary easing measures adopted by the Bank of Japan lack boldness.

The U.S. needs a more expansive strategy to maintain its lead in this field, and that means working closely with its allies, especially Japan.

The notion of testing COVID-19 vaccines by deliberately infecting volunteers with the novel coronavirus — something that’s now on the table — isn’t necessarily crazy ...

Rokuro Inui uses familiar elements of Japanese culture and history to build the world of his 2019 novel “Automatic Eve” (originally published in Japanese in ...

From exotic animals to spectacles and chandeliers, Michael Laver’s “The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan” shows how well-placed gifts were essential in ...

Many anime releases have been delayed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 outbreak, but in the meantime, with their vast libraries of anime films and series, ...

For the first time ever, Japan's national broadcaster, NHK, will show a condensed version of its famous year-long period drama in English.

After 40 episodes, “Terrace House Tokyo 2019-2020” has gone on hiatus to protect the cast and crew amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s still unclear when, ...

A.L. Sadler examines in minute detail the origins of tea drinking and the rich and complex components of its ritualization.

As the pro-democracy movement has roiled Hong Kong and people worldwide lament China’s lack of transparency surrounding the coronavirus outbreak, it seems like auspicious timing ...

“Breasts and Eggs” emerges as a triumph of storytelling that champions the power of storge (Greek for familial love) — between sisters, between father and ...

The Fukuoka group has released its first major-label mini-album, and is firmly looking forward.