Bangkok, 17 August 2015 — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and all of us at the United Nations were shocked to learn of the explosion in Bangkok today close to the Erawan shrine in Rajaprasong. The Secretary-General and the entire United Nations Country Team in Thailand as well as all United Nations personnel join together to express our condolences to the bereaved…
2 April 2015 – Fifteen years – that is the amount of time left before global water resources hit a level that is too low to keep in step with the increasing population rate, according to the latest United Nations World Water Development Report. Readmore
1 April 2015 – UNICEF welcomes the decision by the Government to introduce a Child Support Grant scheme later this year. Under the scheme, poor and near-poor families with children will receive a monthly allowance of 400 baht per child from 0 to 1 year of age. Read more
24 March 2015 – Developing Asia will maintain its strong economic growth in 2015 and 2016 supported by soft commodity prices and recovery in the major industrial economies, says a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) report. ADB’s flagship annual economic publication, Asian Development Outlook 2015 (ADO), released today, forecasts developing Asia will achieve gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 6.3%…
New World Bank data compiled through satellite imagery and geospatial mapping provides new understanding of East Asia’s accelerating urbanization. The new analysis provides vital data at a time when much of the region’s infrastructure is getting built as part of a physical and social transformation in East Asia. According to the World Bank report East Asia’s Changing Urban Landscape: Measuring…
