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What Stray Dogs Need in Thailand: Family and Love

Even now, there are stray dogs that keep breeding and creating more stray dogs. This is a serious ethical problem, as more and more...

Inter Press Service - 7 October 2022

Asia Pacific

World Leaders Condemn Attack on Childcare Centre in Thailand

The attacker, a former police officer, killed himself following a major police operation to hunt him down after he attacked the nursery. An attack on...

OWSA Contributor - 7 October 2022

Finance and Economy

Trade Growth to Slow Sharply in 2023 as Global Economy Faces Strong Headwinds

The new WTO forecast estimates world GDP at market exchange rates will grow by 2.8 per cent in 2022 and 2.3 per cent in...

OWSA Contributor - 6 October 2022

COVID-19

Simple Nasal Wash ‘Reduces COVID-19 Severity’

A simple nasal wash with mild saline water flushes viruses out of the sinuses and can help prevent hospitalisation and deaths from COVID-19, according...

SciDevNet - 6 October 2022

Democracy

Journalists, Under Threat, Need Safe Refuge Through Special Emergency Visas

UNGA week also served to gather legal experts, diplomats, and activists to discuss the plight of journalists forced to flee their homes and the...

Inter Press Service - 6 October 2022

Bangladesh

A Recession Worse than 2007 Crisis Around the Corner, Says UNCTAD

UNCTAD’s latest report warns that the policy-induced global recession could be worse than the financial crisis that haunted governments and people across the globe...

OWSA Contributor - 5 October 2022

Disaster Management

UN Revises Pak Flood Appeal to US$ 816 Million to Avert ‘Second Wave of Death and Destruction’

The United Nations has upscaled its humanitarian appeal for the flood affected people of Pakistan to US$ 816 million from previous US$ 160 million assistance,...

OWSA Contributor - 5 October 2022

Bangladesh

Bangladesh: Power Grid Breakdown Plunges Several Bangladeshi Cities into Darkness

The power supply was restored across Bangladesh only after a seven hours of blackout following the national power grid failure on Tuesday. A grid failure...

OWSA Contributor - 5 October 2022

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