Sustainable Development Goals
Needed: an ecosystem of partners to support ocean health
It is estimated that approximately three billion people around the world rely on seafood for their primary source of protein, making flourishing oceans an integral part of the global commons and healthy living worldwide. There has also been a paradigm shift in consumer attitudes to ...
Thailand tops development index in Southeast Asia
Thailand ranks top among Southeast Asian nations in an annual report gauging progress toward achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs.The SDGs are 17 goals set for 2030. They aim to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity. This year’s report shows Thailand ...
Income inequality, debt, climate change and plastic waste the main issues – BOT governor
Bank of Thailand Governor Veerathai Santiprabhob, in his speech entitled “Formulating for the Future of Corporate Governance”, delivered at the Finance and Beyond National Director Conference 2019 in Bangkok today (July 24th), said Thailand faces four challenges that require good governance in businesses to address.Keep ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs co-hosted the 6th Green Mekong Forum
On 8 July 2019, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand and the Embassy of Japan in Bangkok co-hosted the 6th Green Mekong Forum at Pullman Bangkok King Power Hotel. Approximately 100 representatives from Mekong countries, Japan and relevant agencies, private companies, ...
34th ASEAN Summit Marks a Milestone in Thailand’s ASEAN Chairmanship
Nowhere else on earth could shadow puppets, Khon, Chinese opera, contemporary dance with Hanuman riding a Segway with an Ipad in his hand, be so harmoniously combined together in one single performance than a show presented in an ASEAN Member State. That was how “Vivid ...
6th Green Mekong Forum
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand and the Embassy of Japan in Bangkok will co-host the 6th Green Mekong Forum on 8 July 2019 at Pullman Bangkok King Power Hotel, Bangkok. The Forum will be co-chaired by Mr. Nikorndej Balankura, Deputy Director-General, Department of ...
Strawberries and child support; a Thai partnership
Mother of three, Mhee Saesong, a strawberry farmer from Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand, has always struggled alongside her husband to provide for her family. She describes how, in the past, when her two older children became sick, she was unable to afford ...
Sights set on Indo-Pacific
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has finally offered its own version of the Indo-Pacific Strategy, which includes the bloc’s own vision for cooperation in the Indian Ocean, as well as Asia and the Pacific region, which it calls the “Asean Outlook on the ...
Kornchanok Raksaseri & Thana Boonlert
REPORT: Plight of citizens PUSHED ASIDE by progress
Advocates of sustainable development call on Asean countries to look deeply into problems that mega-projects cause for people.Looking from the West to the East, the North to the South, large-scale development continues apace across Southeast Asia, leaving a toll on people_whether or not it is ...
Piyaporn Wongruang
Princess named as UNAids envoy
Her Royal Highness Princess Soamsawali Krom Muen Suddhanarinatha has been appointed as the UNAids Goodwill Ambassador for HIV Prevention in Asia and the Pacific, according to a press statement released by the United Nations body on Saturday.At the appointment ceremony, which was held at Chulalongkorn ...
Bangkok Post Reporter