Usa Somboon, president of the International Schools Association of Thailand, gives a speech during its General Member Meeting 1/2023 about children’s safety in schools yesterday. (Photo: Somchai Poomlard) A network of international schools has provided active shooter preparedness training as part a crisis management course for […]
Three new cases of mpox have been detected in the kingdom. All three of the cases are male patients, and they are now being treated by the Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute, a medical institution specialised in treating infectious diseases, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) […]
Inflation in the United States hit a 40-year high over the past 12 months and the Federal Reserve raised interest rates eight times to rein in price increases. But the policy depresses the value of the bonds on banks’ balance sheets and it has been […]
Tourists enjoy Mai Khao beach in Phuket on Feb 13, 2023. An influx of foreigners has propelled the real estate market on the island. The Phuket property market surge is expected to continue for at least two more years, buoyed by the strong growth of […]
Motorcyclists in Bali, where locals are upset with Russian and Ukrainian tourists dressing scantily, causing collisions and illegally taking jobs. (Nyimas Laula/The New York Times) For most of last year, thousands of Russians and Ukrainians flocked to the Indonesian island of Bali to escape the […]
France has banned the “recreational” use of TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and other apps on government employees’ phones because of concerns about insufficient data security measures. The ban is to come into force immediately, the Ministry of Public Sector Transformation and the Civil Service wrote on […]
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted countries such as Finland and Sweden to apply for NATO membership. Austria, however, has shown no interest in joining the alliance. It has been neutral since gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1955. In fact, Austria’s law of […]
Jet fuel for Myanmar’s armed forces has been targeted in the latest sanctions imposed by the United States on the country’s military regime and crony businesses. The US Treasury Department said on Friday that it had imposed sanctions on two people and six entities connected […]
Air force commanders from Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark have said they have signed a letter of intent to create a unified Nordic air defence aimed at countering the rising threat from Russia. The intention is to be able to operate jointly, based on already known ways […]
A large asteroid will safely zoom between Earth and the Moon on Saturday, a once-in-a-decade event that will be used as a training exercise for planetary defence efforts, according to the European Space Agency. The asteroid, named 2023 DZ2, is estimated to be 40 to […]
