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- Many children feared dead after fire on school bus in Thailand
Double-decker coach carrying 38 children and teachers reportedly caught fire after crashing with burst tyre
More than 23 people, including young children, are feared dead after their school coach caught fire during a field trip on the outskirts of the Thai capital, Bangkok.
The double-decker coach, which was carrying 39 students and six teachers, is reported to have caught fire after a burst tyre caused the vehicle to scrape along a metal crash barrier, creating sparks that ignited the petrol tank.
Continue reading...1 October 01 2024Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/01/many-feared-dead-after-fire-on-school-bus-in-thailand - Thai zoo moves to patent image of viral baby hippo Moo Deng – video
A Thai zoo whose baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng has become a global sensation has moved to patent her image so it can benefit financially from the hippo's popularity. The director of Khao Kheow Open Zoo, Marongwit Chodchoi, said it took the step to prevent the animal from being commercialised by anyone but the zoo. Her name, which means 'bouncy pork', was the winning moniker in an online poll participated in by 20,000 people in August
Continue reading...19 September 19 2024World newshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/sep/19/thai-zoo-moves-to-patent-image-of-viral-baby-hippo-moo-deng-video - A baby pygmy hippo named Moo Deng: she is all we want to look at | Helen Sullivan
In West Africa, Pygmy hippos are said to carry a diamond in their mouths, which they use to light their way through the forest
The thing to know about the pygmy hippopotamus named Moo Deng is that she is angry, but also she is sweet. In photographs, she is often blurry and at all times, she is shiny. She secretes something known as “blood sweat” which is actually her sunscreen.
She is a hippopotamidae. She is stout. She runs like a piglet and has a snout like a very, very new puppy’s. She is very fast.
Continue reading...19 September 19 2024Environmenthttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2024/sep/20/moo-deng-pygmy-hippo-khao-kheow-open-zoo - Large python filmed coiled around woman in Thailand – video
A Thai woman has described being trapped in the coils of a python for about two hours in her home before rescuers were able to free her. The python was 4 metres long and weighed more than 20kg. In footage filmed by first responders, Arom Arunroj can be seen sitting on the floor with the snake coiled around her waist before she was helped out and taken to hospital
Continue reading...19 September 19 2024Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/sep/19/large-python-filmed-coiled-around-woman-in-thailand-video - Thai woman rescued after two hours trapped in four-metre python’s coils
Arom Arunroj, 64, said she was doing the washing-up at about 8.30pm when the 20kg snake attacked her
A Thai woman has described being trapped in the coils of a 20kg (44lb) python for about two hours in her home before rescuers were able to free her.
Arom Arunroj, 64, was bitten several times by the snake, which had entered her home in Samut Prakan, a province south of Bangkok. She said she had been doing the washing-up at about 8.30pm when she suddenly felt something biting her leg. “I looked at it, and it was a snake,” she said in an interview broadcast on Thai media.
Continue reading...18 September 18 2024Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/thai-woman-rescued-after-two-hours-trapped-in-four-metre-pythons-coils - Moo-Deng: the two-month-old baby pygmy hippo becoming an online giant – video
A two-month-old pygmy hippo has become an internet sensation across Thailand and beyond, after footage of her wobbling around her enclosure, nibbling her zookeeper and being sprayed with water went viral online. Coffee has been made in her image, while online fans have made artwork showing off her cartoonish rosy cheeks and bright eyes. One cosmetics store has even jumped on the trend, telling social media users 'wear your blush like a baby hippo', alongside a selection of products in pink and peach tones
Continue reading...13 September 13 2024Animalshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/sep/13/moo-deng-the-two-month-old-baby-pygmy-hippo-becoming-an-online-giant-video - ‘I set a goal to make her famous’: the baby pygmy hippo who became a giant online
Moo-Deng from Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand has amassed a legion of fans thanks to her viral fame across TikTok, Facebook and Instagram
A two-month-old pygmy hippo has become an internet sensation across Thailand and beyond after footage went viral online of her wobbling around her enclosure, nibbling her zookeeper and being sprayed with water.
Moo-Deng has captured hearts across Asia. Fans have made cakes in her image and artworks showing off her cartoonish rosy cheeks and bright eyes. One cosmetics chain even jumped on the trend, telling social media users to “wear your blush like a baby hippo” in posts promoting products in pink and peach tones. In a reflection of her growing global clout, Time magazine’s website named her an “Icon” and “Legend”, saying “She Is the Moment”.
Continue reading...13 September 13 2024Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/13/moo-deng-hippo-tiktok-khao-kheow-open-zoo-thailand-viral - Thai cave boys’ coach trapped again six years later by typhoon floods
Ekkapol Chantawong, who spent nearly three weeks underground in 2018, forced to spend night on roof of home
The coach of the young Thai footballers who captured the world’s attention when they spent nearly three weeks trapped in a cave has found himself in another watery predicament – stuck on his roof by flash floods.
Ekkapol Chantawong said he was drawing on his 2018 experience with the Wild Boars team to get through the situation at his home in the northern Thai district of Mae Sai.
Continue reading...11 September 11 2024Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/11/thai-cave-boys-coach-trapped-again-six-years-later-by-typhoon-floods - A family affair: can Asia break free from the power of its political dynasties?
Anger is rising at Indonesia’s new administration – while Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Laos and Brunei are all led by the children of former leaders
In early August, against a backdrop of deadly student-led protests, Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned her position, bringing to a close a political dynasty that stretched back to the country’s founding.
This week, students took to the streets on the other side of Asia, to protest against amended election laws that have helped foster the establishment of a new dynasty. In a few weeks Prabowo Subianto will be sworn in as Indonesia’s president – and with him his vice-president, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the 36-year-old son of current leader Joko Widodo.
Continue reading...8 September 08 2024Asia Pacifichttps://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/09/a-family-affair-can-asia-break-free-from-the-power-of-its-political-dynasties - Three things with Abdul Abdullah: ‘I saw a TikTok that said if you’re a grown man who uses a backpack, you’ve made some poor life choices’
In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the Perth-born artist shares a painting that takes pride of place in his home – and why he won’t be shamed for toting a bag
Abdul Abdullah’s work interrogates otherness and Australian identity with a precision that has led to him being shortlisted many times for the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. While the potency of his art is constant, his approach is always shifting. Some works are photographic self-portraits, others are public installations of smiling faces or outstretched hands. In one 2022 piece he asked, in text painted across a 10m-wide canvas, what Australia’s public art collections would look like “if we divested them of sex pests and paedophiles”.
The Perth-born artist is now based in Bangkok, where he lives with his wife, the Bundjulung/Ngapuhi artist Amrita Hepi. He considers artworks – not his own pieces, but those made by friends and collaborators – to be his most prized possessions. Here he shares the story of one piece that hangs proudly at home and another lost, as well as the everyday item he relies on – even if TikTok tries to shame him for it.
Continue reading...1 September 01 2024Australian lifestylehttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/sep/02/three-things-with-abdul-abdullah-i-saw-a-tiktok-that-said-if-youre-a-grown-man-who-uses-a-backpack-youve-made-some-poor-life-choices