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Bangkok’s rubbish-clogged Chao Phraya river is poised to become a little healthier after non-profit organisation The Ocean Cleanup deployed an ‘Interceptor’ craft to sift out as much as 1.5 tonnes of trash per day that would otherwise flow into the Gulf of Thailand.
On a recent weekend at the 16th century Tha Phae Gate in Chiang Mai, Chinese influencers could be seen dressed in elegant evening gowns, scattering corn kernels to draw in pigeons that were startled almost as soon as they’d landed, their fluttering wings creating the perfect wistful social-media moment framed by an ancient monument.
“Join us,” John Paw, 27, of the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF), one of the largest PDFs in Myanmar that supports local ethnic armed groups, told This Week in Asia.
In it, Thaksin sits thoughtfully by a swimming pool at his Bangkok villa, wearing a neck brace with his right arm in a sling.
Thai authorities and Malay-Muslim insurgents have agreed to a ceasefire spanning Ramadan and the Buddhist Songkran festival, negotiators said, a small but significant step towards ending a conflict which has claimed several thousand lives over nearly two decades.
Now he has to stay the course, analysts and political insiders say, and hope a public frazzled by years of destabilising back-room political manoeuvres – and enraged by corruption – rallies behind his 14-month-old administration.
Three years after the coup, the walls are closing in on Myanmar’s junta and its leader Min Aung Hlaing.
“Everything is open, it’s cool,” he says, as his friends livestream the giddy whirl of drunken tourists, touts, cannabis stalls, tuk-tuk drivers and night workers on a downtown part of Sukhumvit Road – one of the city’s main tourist drags.