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- Water blessings and celestial offerings: Thailand’s Loy Krathong and Yi Peng festivals – in picturesWater blessings and celestial offerings: Thailand’s Loy Krathong and Yi Peng festivals – in pictures
Millions of Thai take part in ancient annual festivities on 5 November that are held on the full moon of the 12th month in the Thai lunar calendar. Many head to waterways to release ‘krathong’ loaded with candles, flowers and incense, letting their misfortune float away along rivers and canals. Lanterns are also released into the night sky with the belief that bad luck will fly away
• Is that a goose on your head? Earth’s most spectacular inhabitants – in pictures
Continue reading...6 November 06 2025Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2025/nov/06/thailand-lantern-festival-loy-krathong-yi-peng-in-pictures - ‘We must protect and we must understand’: using shipwrecks to rebuild fish populations
Research by marine scientists in Thailand is revealing how shipwrecks can benefit the undersea environment
Sitting at the bottom of the Gulf of Thailand about 20 metres below the ocean surface is the HTMS Hanhak Sattru. Snappers, yellowtail fusiliers and bannerfish swim through the ship’s corridors,while barnacles, algae and young coral cling to the iron ladders and machine-gun on deck. Nearby is another wreck, the HTMS SuphairinBoth were intentionally submerged by the Royal Thai Navy in 2023 to create artificial reefs and dive sites. Their planned scuttling has enabled marine scientists to produce some of the first research on how much shipwrecks change the marine environment.
There is already plenty of existing research that shows that shipwrecks create a new ecosystem. But whether they pull fish from natural reefs or promote production of new fish (known as the attraction-pollution hypothesis) has historically been hard to say.
Continue reading...31 October 31 2025Environmenthttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/31/we-must-protect-and-we-must-understand-using-shipwrecks-to-rebuild-fishing-populations - What – if anything – did Asian countries get out of Donald Trump’s whirlwind tour?
Uncertainty surrounds the signing of this week’s trade deals amid the failure to secure reciprocity from the US to cut tariffs
On Donald Trump’s whirlwind tour of Asia – which involved stops in Malaysia, Japan and Korea – the US president triumphantly collected new trade deals from countries hoping for a reduction in the tariffs he slapped on them earlier this year.
However – China aside – analysts were left asking just how much Asian nations got out of it.
Continue reading...31 October 31 2025International tradehttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/31/donald-trump-tour-asian-countries-trade-deals-tariffs-explainer - Trump oversees Thailand-Cambodia ceasefire signing as Asia tour gets under way
Trump has begun a five-day trip to Malaysia, Japan and South Korea, his first visit to the region since taking office in January
Donald Trump has overseen the signing of a ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia on the first day of an Asia tour where he will seal new trade agreements and hold a crucial meeting with Xi Jinping.
The US president arrived in Malaysia on Sunday before the Asean summit in the capital, Kuala Lumpur. At a ceasefire ceremony in front of a sign that read “Delivering Peace”, the Thai prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, and his Cambodian counterpart, Hun Manet, signed an expanded ceasefire deal related to a deadly five-day conflict in July.
Continue reading...26 October 26 2025US foreign policyhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/trump-oversees-thailand-cambodia-ceasefire-signing-as-asia-tour-gets-under-way - Thailand’s Queen Mother Sirikit dies at 93 after more than a decade out of the public eye
Prime minister Charnvirakul cancels trip to Asean summit in Malaysia after news of the Queen Mother’s death
Thailand’s Queen Mother Sirikit, who brought glamour to a postwar revival in the country’s monarchy and who, in later years, would occasionally wade into politics, has died aged 93, the Thai Royal Household bureau has announced.
The palace said she had been hospitalised since 2019 due to several illnesses and developed a bloodstream infection on 17 October before passing away late on Friday.
Continue reading...25 October 25 2025Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/25/thailands-queen-mother-sirikit-dies-at-93-after-more-than-a-decade-out-of-the-public-eye - Trump in Asia: five key questions as US president prepares for diplomatic tour
Donald Trump will travel to Malaysia, Japan and South Korea for the Apec and Asean summits. Will he meet Xi Jinping, and what tariff deals might be secured?
Donald Trump is about to embark on a tour of Asia that many hope will ease trade tensions with countries in the region and repair damaged ties with China. Trump will begin his trip on Sunday at a meeting of south-east Asian nations in Malaysia, before flying to Japan to meet its new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, early next week.
But the most important stop on his itinerary will come at the end of the month, when he is expected to discuss trade, and possibly Taiwan, with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Apec summit in South Korea.
Continue reading...23 October 23 2025Donald Trumphttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/trump-asia-tour-key-questions-xi-jinping-china-japan-south-korea-malaysia - Thailand to let Myanmar refugees work to counter aid cuts and labour shortages
The move, welcomed by UN, will allow thousands of people living in camps to support themselves and their families
Thailand is setting a regional precedent this month by giving refugees permission to work in the country in an effort to tackle aid cuts and its own labour shortages.
More than 87,000 refugees living in nine refugee camps along Thailand’s border with Myanmar have been totally reliant on handouts of food and foreign aid.
Continue reading...22 October 22 2025Global developmenthttps://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/22/thailand-to-let-myanmar-refugees-work-aid-cuts-labour-shortages - ‘Wailing ghosts through loudspeakers’: Cambodia accuses Thailand of psychological warfare along border
Cambodia’s rights commission said ‘intense, high-pitched noises’ broadcast by Thai soldiers along the disputed border threatened to escalate tensions
Cambodia’s former leader Hun Sen has complained about Thailand broadcasting ghost-like sounds across a disputed border, while the country’s human rights commission has accused its neighbour of engaging in psychological warfare, despite both countries agreeing to a ceasefire in July.
Posting on Facebook, Hun Sen, 73, who now serves as Cambodia’s powerful senate president, said Cambodia’s human rights commission had complained to the United Nations about the “intense, high-pitched noises”.
Continue reading...17 October 17 2025Cambodiahttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/17/cambodia-accuses-thailand-psychological-warfare-border - Typhoon Bualoi death toll rises to at least 30 across Vietnam, Thailand and Philippines
Vietnamese authorities say typhoon was the most devastating storm to hit the country this year
The death toll from Typhoon Bualoi in south-east Asia has risen to more than 30 as heavy rains continued to lash the region.
In Vietnam, authorities said 19 people had been killed and 21 were missing, making it the most devastating storm to hit the country this year. Heavy rain on Tuesday raised the risk of more flooding and landslides in northern regions.
Continue reading...30 September 30 2025Philippineshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/30/typhoon-bualoi-death-toll-rises-across-vietnam-thailand-and-philippines - Sinkhole swallows part of street in front of Bangkok hospital – video
A large sinkhole opened up outside a hospital in the Thai capital on Wednesday. Social media footage shows power lines being pulled down into the 50-metre-deep hole and vehicles teetering on the edge. Officials said there were no casualties.
Suriyachai Rawiwan, the director of Bangkok's disaster prevention department, told the news agency AFP that the collapse, which forced streets to be evacuated, was likely to be linked to recent heavy rain and a leaky pipe
Continue reading...24 September 24 2025Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/sep/24/sinkhole-swallows-part-of-street-in-front-of-bangkok-hospital-video