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Missing boat captain rescued by fishing vessel.

L'océan Indien sera-t-il chinois ?

Myanmar navy escorting boat with 727 migrants to Bangladesh waters: minister.

Thailand Proposes $20bn Silk-Road-Canal.

Thailand Proposes $20bn Silk-Road-Canal.

Battling drugs and commercial fishing boats, Myanmar's 'sea gypsies' struggle to make a living.

As seawater temperature rises, repeated thermal bleaching events have negatively affected the reefs of the Andaman Sea for over decades. Studies on the coral-associated microbial diversity of prokaryotes and microbial eukaryotes (microbiome) in healthy and bleached corals are important to better understand the coral holobionts that involved augmented resistance to stresses, and this information remains limited in the Andaman Sea of Thailand. The present study thereby described the microbiomes of healthy (unbleached) and bleached colonies of four prevalent corals, Acropora humilis, Platygyra sp., Pocillopora damicornis, and Porites lutea, along with the surrounding seawater and sediments, that were collected during a 2016 thermal bleaching event, using 16S and 18S rRNA genes next-generation sequencing (NGS). Both prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes showed isolated community profiles among sample types (corals, sediment, and seawater) [analysis of similarities (ANOSIM): p = 0.038 for prokaryotes, p < 0.001 for microbial eukaryotes] and among coral genera (ANOSIM: p < 0.001 for prokaryotes and microbial eukaryotes). In bleached state corals, we found differences in microbial compositions from the healthy state corals. Prevalent differences shared among bleached coral genera (shared in at least three coral genera) included a loss of reported coral-beneficial microbes, such as Pseudomonadales, Alteromonadales, and Symbiodinium; meanwhile an increase of putative coral-pathogenic Malassezia and Aspergillus. This difference could affect carbon and nitrogen availability for coral growth, reflective of a healthy or bleached state. Our findings in part supported previously microbial dysbiosis knowledge of thermal bleaching coral microbiomes around South East Asia marine geography, and together ongoing efforts are to support the understanding and management of microbial diversity to reduce the negative impacts to corals in massive thermal bleaching events.

Menacée par les touristes, une île thaïlandaise est contrainte de fermer.

Thank you for not visiting: tourist hotspots that have done a Koh Tachai.

Thai bay made famous in 'The Beach' shut indefinitely.

Can a tourist ban save DiCAPRIO's coral paradise from destruction?

Thailand's Maya Bay, location for The Beach, to close to tourists.

How Disaster Aid Ravaged an Island People.

Southeast Asian countries were urged on Tuesday to treat migrants landing on their shores humanely and avoid a repeat of this year's disaster in which hundreds of refugees were either lost at sea or died in jungle camps.

Rescuers pull bodies from plane wreck in Myanmar sea.