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PM Prayut vows to push for greater ASEAN connectivity
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha today pledged to push for greater connectivity to strengthen business and investments in ASEAN when Thailand assumes the chairmanship of the regional grouping next year.Speaking at the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit in Singapore, Gen Prayut said as chairman of ASEAN ...
Kobsak: EEC is Thailand’s model economic development approach
Minister attached to the Prime Minister’s Office Kobsak Pootrakool believes the establishment of the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) is a model approach for future economic development.Keep watching ...
Thammasat reengineers its engineering curriculum to fit Thailand 4.0
Engineering is one of the key drivers of the Thailand 4.0 policy. Therefore, Thammasat School of Engineering has been developing its curriculum to produce young engineers with excellence in digital technology. There are many innovations proving their success.Keep watching ...
Anxiety mounts over nuclear waste found in Laem Chabang Port
Academics have urged authorities to fully disclose information about the radioactive waste found at Laem Chabang Port and investigate the shipment’s entire route.The Office of Atoms for Peace (OAP) and the Port Authority of Thailand have said the radioactive waste was safely retrieved from the ...
Pratch Rujivanarom
A low-key meeting in 1991 gave rise to the ASEAN Free Trade Area
To this day, when Thai schoolchildren learn by rote the main achievements of their past prime ministers, they are taught that Anand Panyarachun was responsible for the creation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ Free Trade Area (AFTA). What this might mean to them ...
Dominic Faulder
New dawn for remote Andaman Sea island tourism
Few have heard of the Mergui Archipelago, and even fewer have managed to visit the 400km string of scattered islands in the Bay of Bengal’s Andaman Sea.Most of the 800 offshore islands are uninhabited, apart from a few seasonal settlements of the seafaring nomadic Moken, ...
60 days 'long enough' for campaigning
Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon insisted political parties will have about 60 days for election campaigning after the ban on political activities is lifted. The 60-day period for campaigning should be long enough when compared to the campaign for the 2011 election called by former ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Facing up to Thailand's role as Asean chair
As Thailand gears up to chair Asean next year, a sense of deja vu is setting in. The last time Thailand held its rotational turn at Asean’s helm from July 2008 to December 2009, it was undermined by domestic street protests that ended up disrupting ...
Thitinan Pongsudhirak
Inside the disturbing world of illegal wildlife trade
A recent report by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature showed that between 1970 and 2014 the vertebrate population declined by an average of 60 percent. While this was mostly due to habitat loss, the illegal trade in wildlife—whether rhino horn, tiger bone, or animals ...
Simon Worrall
Why the Mekong matters
The countries of the Mekong should build a “community of shared future” said China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in December last year. The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Framework (LMC) is “practical and highly effective”, he said. “We do not go after a high-profile ‘talk shop’ but a ...
