DENNIS THERN BLOG
Freelance Photographer
Swedish Embassy Thailand and IKEA promote paternity leave
This week it's the HeForShe Arts Week Bangkok at Bangkok Art and Culture Center. There are a lot of interesting activities during the week. The event aims to raise public awareness - thought arts and culture - to promote gender equality. One of the activities is the...
Labor Day Weekend NY, USA
It was a great Labor Day Weekend in NY. The Big Apple is always nice to return to. This time did not disappoint either. Five days felt at least one day to short! But I will be back soon. Some general pics from around the city:
UN admits Haiti cholera outbreak
The United Nations has finally acknowledged it played a role in an outbreak of cholera in Haiti in 2010 that has since killed about 10,000 people in the country. Studies have shown that Nepalese UN troops were the source of the disease - but the UN repeatedly denied...
School is out – Haiti
The school year 2015-2016 has just finished in Haiti. Millions of school kids are on their well deserved break. They will be back in their classrooms in September. The education system in Haiti is developing but to slow. Primary school enrollment is about 75%, up a...
School in The Philippines in progress
The Philippine school year 2016-2017 started on June 13. Millions of school children are back in the classroom. The said school year is comprised of 54 days for the first quarter, 48 days for the second quarter, another 48 days for the third quarter, and 52 days for...
New book out
Finally the book "Bangkok - 10 vandringar och utflykter" was released. It is all in Swedish, but hopefully there will be an English version as well. The book is about 10 walks and day trips in Bangkok. It is an excellent book to complement any regular tourist book....
Chernobyl – 30 years on
On April 26, 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster took place; the explosion of Chernobyl's No. 4 nuclear reactor in the Ukraine. About nine tone of radio active dust, 90 times more than the Hiroshima bomb, spread over a large area of Europe. Some five million...
“International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action”.
Today marks the “International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action”. The theme for 2016 is: “Mine Action is Humanitarian Action” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement: "On this International Day, let us work together to advance the goal...
Political and food crisis in Haiti
Political crisis Haitian President Michel Martelly stepped down from his office over the weekend. The country is left with no successor after elections were postponed twice due to allegations of fraud. - My greatest failure is the delayed elections, the...
Hong Kong book
2016. New year, new challenges, new possibilities. Currently I'm involved in my third book within a year. I'm quite excited about that, especially the book on Bangkok that is to be released within a few weeks. I have more than 100 images in the book, and I'm looking...
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