Eating Thai Fruit Demands Serious Effort but Delivers Sublime Reward
BANGKOK — All across Bangkok, fruit juice is dripping off chins, dribbling down arms and splashing onto the city’s sidewalks. This is peak fruit season...
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In Every Corner of Bangkok, Spirits Need a Home and Maybe a Strawberry Fanta
BANGKOK — These spirits were not wearing face masks. They appeared well fed, untroubled by the hunger pangs that have afflicted some Thais during the...
Elephants, Long Endangered by Thai Crowds, Reclaim a National Park
KHAO YAI, Thailand — For as long as the elephants could remember — and that is a long time — the path to the river...
Prophet TB Joshua: Hardship virus more dangerous than coronavirus
Prominent Nigerian Pastor TB Joshua has again waded into the contentious issue of the worldwide coronavirus outbreak, calling on world leaders to reopen the economy....
WHO: Coronavirus cases and deaths in Africa soar
The World Health Organization reported Friday that COVID-19 cases in Africa have increased 51 percent and deaths have jumped 60 percent. Speaking at a conference...
South Africa: US decision to suspend funding for WHO ‘regrettable’
South Africa on Thursday expressed concern over U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to halt funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO). “The South African government...
WFP: Medical supplies airlifted to Ethiopia for distribution in Africa
Pure Cycles A first “solidarity flight” of medical supplies from the World Health Organization (WHO) landed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Tuesday for distribution in...
China Limited the Mekong’s Flow. Other Countries Suffered a Drought.
BANGKOK — As China was stricken by the coronavirus in late February, its foreign minister addressed a concerned crowd in Laos, where farmers and fishers...
Madeleine Albright: The Best Response to the Coronavirus Is Resilience
My first memories are of an apartment in London on Kensington Park Road, with a tiny kitchen and two small rooms in the wartime 1940s....
Coronavirus Finds Fuel in a World of Migrants
BANGKOK — His whole family back in Myanmar depended on him. But Ko Zaw Win Tun, one of an estimated 4 million migrant workers in...