Author: sorecery

Death threats, a dead bird and a reported ฿500,000 bounty engulf a Koh Samui zoo dispute. Owner Jindarat files a police complaint as checkpoints guard key sites and officials move to deport both her French husband Kevin and Israeli businessman Jacob. A bitter Koh Samui zoo dispute has led to a police complaint, death threats, animal cruelty claims and deportation proceedings. Owner Jindarat says Israeli tourists killed a bird, injured animals and later threatened to burn her family’s home and zoo. The conflict intensified after her French husband, Kevin, displayed a Palestinian flag and an influencer reportedly offered a ฿500,000…

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Suwadi can barely see five metres in front of him when he steps outside his home in Indonesian Borneo. Each breath, he says, feels “like smoking a cigarette”. It has been like this for weeks in Kalimantan, the Indonesian side of Borneo island, where fires have raged across tens of thousands of acres of land, including ancient rainforest, triggering a trans-boundary haze now threatening Malaysia and Singapore. In West Kalimantan there has been a spike in emergency room visits, with about 5,000 people arriving with respiratory symptoms each week since July, compared with 500 per week in the first half…

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An Australian woman who lost an arm after a shark attack at a beach in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has recalled the moment she came face-to-face with the “monster”. Leah Stewart, a 34-year-old teacher and mother of a one-year-old daughter, was attacked by a large shark while on a morning swim at Coogee beach on 13 June. She remained in a critical condition for more than two weeks while receiving treatment for life-threatening injuries that required the amputation of her arm. In a snippet from her first media interview since the attack, Stewart recalled that her first thoughts during the attack…

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