In Thailand, police officers have been charged with large–scale corruption and face lengthy prison sentences. The officers allegedly accepted bribes from a construction company to help them win a bid to build 163 five–storey flats worth 3.7 billion baht. The Central Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Case initially handed down life sentences to the officers, but due to their cooperation with the investigation, the sentences were commuted to 33 years and four months and a fine of 260,000 baht each.
In an effort to combat pollution in the Chao Phraya River, a marine environment company in the Netherlands has created WasteShark, a robotic shark that patrols rivers and canals and swallows discarded plastic waste. The device can travel up to 5 kilometres through water before needing a recharge and can collect up to 500 kilograms of plastic and…
