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Giant drains ‘will not prevent floods’
Academic urges BMA to make it mandatory for big condo, office building projects to build underground water banks. Even with 20 giant drainage tunnels, Bangkok will never be safe from floods, predicts a respected university lecturer.Thanawat Jarupongsakul, who teaches at Chulalongkorn University’s Department of Geology, ...
Chularat Saengpassa
Criminal Justice Reform A Lesson On Comparative Criminal Justice
As of May 2019, there are 386,902 inmates in the Thai prison system. In 2018, the food cost for prisoners totaled 7,521,347,880 baht or 54 baht per day. Prisons are overcrowded retaining nearly four times as many as inmates than its actual capacity, while crime ...
Govt ready to host Asean summit
Thailand is getting ready to welcome regional leaders ahead of the Asean Summit next week.All the leaders of the 10 member countries will attend the 34th Asean Summit on June 22 and 23 in Bangkok, said Suriya Chindawongse, director-general of the Department of Asean Affairs.Keep ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
NSTDA opens logistics innovation contest
The National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) will organize a logistics innovation contest in order to promote and enhance the commercial logistics sector.Keep watching ...
ASEAN economic ministers to discuss cooperation on June 21 22
Thailand will host the 34th ASEAN Summit from June 20 to 23, 2019. The delegates will discuss regional economic partnership and issues that need to be implemented within this year.Keep watching ...
Climate change on track to reduce ocean wildlife by 17%
Climate change is set to empty the ocean of nearly a fifth of all living creatures, measured by mass, by the end of the century, researchers have calculated.In a world that heats up three to four degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels, 17 percent of ...
Thailand urged to use forums for peace effort
Former foreign minister Kasit Piromya has urged Thailand as the current chair of Asean to use the 34th Asean Summit and the Asean Regional Forum (ARF) as an opportunity for peacebuilding on the Korean Peninsula. Keep reading ...
Thana Boonlert
FTI: Agriculture stimulus needed for growth
The new government is being urged to stimulate the country’s agricultural sector because crop prices remain low and farmers have limited purchasing power in the local market, says the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI). Keep reading ...
Piyachart Maikaew
2020 budget to fund five 'key aspects'
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration will use the budget it has requested for the upcoming fiscal year to improve five key aspects of people’s lives in the capital, says Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang.“These key areas are cleanliness, convenience, safety, quality of life, as well as self-sufficiency,” ...
Supoj Wancharoen
New study digs deep to shatter myths about Isaan
Persistently discounted as gullible, desperate, and unsophisticated, the 22 million inhabitants of Isaan–about a third of the country’s population–have long borne the brunt of bias from Thailand’s urban middle class.A new study by the Asia Foundation sets out to investigate if these biases hold any ...