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Tambon polls hold promise

BangkokPost.com 

After a long wait, voters are set to be able to exercise their political rights, this time at the tambon level, the smallest but a crucial unit for politics.

FAO ready to act on food systems

BangkokPost.com 

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has entered a new era with a new structure and new dynamics.

KTIS revenue hit by double whammy

BangkokPost.com 

Kaset Thai International Sugar Corporation Plc (KTIS) has seen its revenue over the past nine months decrease by 26.7% to 8.2 billion baht year-on-year due to the combined effects of the prolonged Covid-19 outbreak and drought in Thailand.

Hopes high for Expo's economic benefits

BangkokPost.com 

Thailand's participation in the World Expo, which will kick off in Dubai on Oct 1, will provide an economic boost and bolster investor confidence, according to the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (DES).

Supachai pushes green economy for the region

BangkokPost.com 

Asia-Pacific is being advised to beef up green economy development and adopt a sufficiency economy to help recover the regional economy once the pandemic eases.

CKP moves forward with planned Laos hydro plant

BangkokPost.com 

CK Power Plc (CKP), a power generation arm of CH Karnchang Plc, is going ahead with its feasibility study to build a hydroelectric power plant near Luang Prabang on the Mekong River in northern Laos following a delay caused by the impact of the pandemic last year.



Pokémon Unite Players Sure Don't Like Surrendering

Kotaku.com 

Picture this: You’re playing Pokémon Unite as your favorite monster (Greninja mains, sound off in the comments), whooping some ass. But as the game goes on, you find that your team is seriously STRUGGLING. What do you do, choose the surrender option or stick it out until the end? Matches may be pretty short in Pokémon…

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Biden and UK to help Australia acquire nuclear submarines in new pushback on China - CNN

Google.com 

  1. Biden and UK to help Australia acquire nuclear submarines in new pushback on China  CNN
  2. U.S., Australia and UK unveil new security partnership as China expands its military and influence  CNBC
  3. Pact with U.S., Britain, will see Australia scrap French sub deal-media  Yahoo News
  4. President Biden explains new trilateral partnership to combat China threat  CNN
  5. Biden Takes Rare Step To Share Nuclear Submarine Technology With Australia  NPR
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America Proved Its Resoluteness in Afghanistan

The National Interest 

John Allen, Michael O'Hanlon

Afghanistan,

By fighting for twenty years, even in a difficult cause with an uncertain path to anything resembling true victory, the country has shown its resoluteness. 

For those American troops who question whether all the sacrifice in Afghanistan of the last twenty years was worth it, we would offer a simple message: Yes. Not only because the American homeland stayed generally safe over that time period. Not only because of the noble generosity and patriotism of that service. Читать дальше...

Africa’s Largest Bank Stops Funding New Coal Plants

Oilprice.com 

The largest bank in Africa by market capitalization, FirstRand Limited, will no longer finance new coal-fired power plants, the lender said on Wednesday in its updated energy and fossil fuel policy. From 2026 onwards, South Africa-based FirstRand will no longer provide direct project finance to new coal mines either, the bank said, as investor and societal pressure grows on the banking sector everywhere to rethink financing for fossil fuels.   FirstRand also pledged in its new climate policy to reduce... Читать дальше...





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