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Thailand is hoping to recover 60 looted Thai artifacts from overseas, the Culture Ministry announced yesterday (Oct 31).“The ministry’s ad hoc committee has called for the repatriation of dozens of artifacts that originated in Thailand from leading US museums and a UK museum,” Culture Minister ...

Despite launching the Thailand 4.0 initiative two years ago, Thailand is on track to lose as many as three million jobs over the next 20 years if it fails to adapt to new disruptive technologies, according to the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI).Keep reading ...

A bill on a land and buildings tax, that was stuck in a National Legislative Assembly (NLA) standing committee for more than a year, has finally won the panel’s approval and is expected to go before lawmakers for a second reading within two weeks.Keep reading ...

To drive concrete development of the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), Thailand’s Board of Investment (BOI) has recently approved investment incentive scheme for the bidding winners of U-Tapao Airport’s Passenger Terminal 3 and Digital Park Thailand (EECd) development projects, two among six major development projects in ...

The draft cyber security law has raised the concerns of netizens that the state will have more power to seize data from the private sector and individuals. Some fear the law, which still has no clear limits, will be used on a daily basis.Keep reading ...

Natural Resources and Environment Minister General Surasak Karnjanarat told reporters yesterday (Oct 30) that the Land Department was in the process of revoking the land-rights documents for privately owned plots in Phetchabun that are encroaching on forestland. Keep reading ...

A total of 44 members of the National Legislative Assembly have signed in support of a draft bill to decriminalize marijuana for medical purpose by deleting marijuana from Category 5 List of narcotic drugs, said Mr Somchai Sawaengkarn, secretary of  the NLA’s extraordinary committee on ...

The cabinet has endorsed four infrastructure investment projects worth a combined 470 billion baht under the government’s flagship Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) scheme. The projects were approved by the EEC Policy Committee on Oct 4 and endorsed at a mobile cabinet meeting on Tuesday in ...

The National Council for Peace and Order has confirmed more troops will be sent to support the patrol operation along the Mekong River. The Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Army, Gen. Apirat Kongsompong, who is also the Secretary General of the NCPO, said that national ...

By 2050, the world’s population is expected to reach 10 billion, mainly driven by growth in poor and densely populated regions of Asia and Africa, whose livelihood is highly dependent on rice for food and socio-economic advancement. Keep reading ...