January 30, 2020 | Environment & Technology
The next wave of electric vehicles will navigate Thailand’s waterways instead of its highways. Battery power soon could transform Bangkok’s Chao Phraya River, with electric catamarans augmenting the cacophonous, wooden longboats that spew exhaust as they motor past... 
September 19, 2019 | Environment & Technology
Thailand’s ubiquitous tuk-tuk, the noisy, colorful three-wheeled taxi that’s been belching exhaust on local roads for almost a century, is getting a cutting-edge makeover to help carry the local auto industry into the future. Beginning in November, a public-private... 
August 26, 2019 | Environment & Technology
Thailand is jump starting a decades-old plan to create a Southeast Asia electricity super-grid, and wants to be the power-trading hub at the center of it. The nation is set to triple the amount of electricity from Laos that it resells to Malaysia, while encouraging... 
June 20, 2019 | Environment & Technology
It’s the epitome of a closed circuit: the utility helping power one of Southeast Asia’s biggest cities is building electric cars, batteries and charging stations for the nascent market, and then supplying the juice to keep them all running.... 
November 20, 2015 | Environment & Technology
BAN TA KLANG, Thailand – A small village that bills itself as having the world’s largest number of domesticated elephants is determined to keep its traditions alive. Praethong, a 20-year-old elephant, would be an unusual house pet outside her hometown of Ban Ta Klang... 
October 17, 2015 | Environment & Technology
SAMUT PRAKAN, Thailand – Dozens of crocodiles escaped from a farm in central Thailand this month, highlighting lax oversight of the world’s largest crocodile-farming industry, and frightening some of the locals. Two yellow eyes emerge from the green water, along with...