Ayutthaya (dpa) – A musty odor reaches up from the basement of Maha Chulalongkorn University in Ayutthaya, an ancient capital north of Bangkok that was submerged for weeks during recent floods.
Manfred Anders from the Center for Book Preservation (...)
Tangerang, Indonesia (dpa) – Crouched and concentrated, August and Karma rip open knotted plastic bags at the foot of a big pile of rubbish.
Yoghurt cups, paper packaging, plastic, pineapple rinds, cabbage leaves, chicken bones and the like fall (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – The South Pacific island nation of Samoa makes a bold leap into the future this week, when December 30 is simply struck from the calendar.
At midnight on Thursday, December 29, Samoa will go straight to Saturday, December 31 by (...)
Mindere, Papua New Guinea (dpa) – The refinery next door is set to produce huge quantities of nickel and cobalt, and generate jobs. But the villagers of Mindere in Papua New Guinea want to shut it down for fear of devastating environmental damage (...)
