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Thailand Urged to Prepare for Sustainable Global Trade

Bangkok, 28 May 2026 — Thailand has a significant opportunity to strengthen its position in global markets by preparing for emerging sustainability requirements, according to Timo Menniken, Country Director of GIZ Thailand, at the Policy Recommendation Announcement and Handover Ceremony of the FIT for FAIR Project in Bangkok.

Bangkok Post

The world’s waste mountain is rising at an alarming rate

The world is struggling to deal with ever-growing quantities of waste.

The Conversation

African cities aren’t doing enough to adapt to climate change: lessons from Durban and Harare

When record-breaking rains swept through the coastal city of Durban in South Africa in April 2022, the resulting floods destroyed roads, bridges and homes. Durban’s low-lying, poor neighbourhoods were hardest hit, with residents losing their homes and their lives.

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How the climate crisis and aid cuts could devastate global supplies of vanilla

IN FOCUS: Vanilla farmers in Madagascar, a country that supplies up to 80 per cent of the global crop each year, face a difficult future as the climate crisis and aid cuts bite, writes Nick Ferris

The Independent UK

Can Ultimate Frisbee Heal the Middle East?

The spread of Ultimate Frisbee testifies to a kind of Western soft power in the Middle East, one far friendlier than bombs or bullets.

Reason

Plastic pollution hotspots pinpointed in new research – India ranks top due to high levels of uncollected waste

We have used machine learning to identify the biggest plastic pollution hotspots across more than 50,000 towns, cities and rural areas worldwide. Our new global model reveals the most detailed picture of plastic pollution ever created with the highest environmental concentrations in India, predominantly because so much of its waste…

The Conversation

Ukraine Relies On Friends As Russia Strikes Power Grid

With Russian attacks on energy infrastructure causing power cuts, Ukraine is depending on its central and eastern European neighbours to keep the lights on.

International Business Times

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Palestinian employee of German development agency ‘abused’ in Israeli jail

Baraa Odeh has told her lawyer from prison that she has been repeatedly strip-searched and physically assaulted.

Al Jazeera

Anert launches EV skill development programme for polytechnic faculty

The Hindu

German-aided climate change learning lab ready for opening at CWRDM

Mayor Beena Philip to open German-aided Climate Change Learning Lab at CWRDM in Kozhikode. Lab offers unique opportunity for experiential learning, access to climate financing sources & encourages initiatives & actions. Open for visitors 10.30am-4.30pm, free entry for all. Opening ceremony Fri 10.30am.

The Hindu

Effort needed to eliminate single-use plastics: Chief Secretary

The State still has a long way to go, he says

The Hindu

Murder claims grip world-famous gorilla park in the DRC

Allegations of atrocities against Indigenous inhabitants spark a German government-funded inquiry.

Al Jazeera

Climate-smart rice farming a win-win

Sawanee Phorang, a 44-year-old farmer from Suphan Buri's Doem Bang Nang Buat district, recently changed her traditional rice farming practice by adopting laser land levelling (LLL), an innovative technology she claims has completely transformed her way of life.

Bangkok Post

Feasibility of AC coaches in Beach-Chengalpattu trains to be studied

Studies will be conducted for the extension of Metro Rail Corridor 3 from Siruseri to Kelambakkam: Minister

The Hindu

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Cycle With Kochi: Homemakers learn to ride a cycle and live a dream

In a bid to promote green commuting, Cochin Corporation’s ‘Cycle With Kochi’ project is training Kudumbashree women to cycle

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