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The Department of Disease Control (DDC) in Thailand has issued a mandatory travel order that will require visitors to the Kingdom to submit further personal data and contact information. The order comes in the wake […]
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The southern Chinese city Shenzhen recently announced a draft regulation to ban the eating of wild animals as well as animals typically regarded as pets. The proposed regulation comes in the wake of the deadly […]
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Spain’s government recently approved a draft bill that increases the penalties for sexual abuse and classifies all non-consensual sex as rape. The bill, dubbed as the “only yes means yes” law, comes in the wake […]
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Thailand’s Public Health Ministry recently placed 9 countries as well as Macau and Hong Kong on a list of countries at “high risk” for the coronavirus, formally known as Covid-19. The nine countries on the […]
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Health experts are starting to believe that the cases of Coronavirus in Southeast Asia are being vastly under-reported by the country’s respective governments. The Coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, has spread all across the globe […]
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Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled that the wording of two sections of the Criminal Code regarding abortion should be amended. The petition came to the court after Srisamai Chueachart, a pro-abortion activist, petitioned that Section 301 […]
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Maya Bay, perhaps Thailand’s most famous beach, is set to reopen to tourism in November of this year. Maya Bay was shut down in 2018 by Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation after […]
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The Thai government is currently considering extending Songkran to 9 days in 2020 to make up for a shortfall in tourism due to the Coronavirus outbreak. If approved, Songkran–Thailand’s wild and wet new year festival–would […]
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Singapore’s anti-fake news law has stirred up its fair share of controversy in its short four-month existence. The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA), which has become a model for other governments in […]
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Thailand has long been known as a country with extreme levels of market and economic concentration. That wealth inequality and consolidated market control looks likely to become even worse with the country’s impending Tesco Lotus […]
