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Nakhon Phanom promotes local biotech industry
Thailand’s National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) is promoting the biotech industry of Nakhon Phanom province, with the aim of enhancing the quality of herbal products. The NSTDA has piloted a factory in Nakhon Phanom that can cultivate high-value crops and plant compounds. The ...
Benjamin Rujopakarn
Thailand’s green cover in slow decline as 40% goal remains out of reach
Thailand has been ambitiously aiming to have 40 percent of its land turned into lush green forests, but this goal set in 1975 has yet to be accomplished.The aim was to have conserved forests cover 25 percent of the country and commercial forests cover the ...
Kornrawee Panyasuppakun
NLA wants cyber law to cover poll fraud
The National Legislative Assembly (NLA) wants the government to enforce a new cyber law to control election campaigns on social media before next year’s general election. Such a measure should be added to the cyber security bill, now being vetted by the government’s legal advisory ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
US, allies roasted as UN climate talks end in Bangkok
Developing countries rounded on the United States and its allies at emergency climate talks Sunday (Sep 9), accusing the world’s richest nations of stalling a deal aimed at preventing runaway global warming.Experts from around the world have been locked in discussions this week in Bangkok, ...
Social welfare cardholders to be exempted from VAT
The Ministry of Finance will seek cabinet approval for its latest scheme to exempt social welfare cardholders from the value-added tax (VAT). Finance Minister Apisak Tantivorawong said today (Sep 09) that the new scheme will help 11.4 million low-income earners enrolled in the social welfare ...
Thammarat Thadaphrom
European firms wooed for creation of financial hub in EEC
Thailand plans to attract leading European financial institutions to help develop a financial centre in the country’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) to forge a financial link with Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV).Industry Minister Uttama Savanayana held discussions with Geoff Donald, executive director of the ...
The Nation Reporter
‘Climate change a global health risk’
Climate change is causing serious health threats and is capable of triggering a deadly global pandemic, doctors have warned. Preventive healthcare promotion, strengthening of the health system and stabilising the rising global temperature were urgently required to mitigate the impacts of climate change on health ...
Pratch Rujivanarom
Toxic farm chemicals take a toll on lives
The effects of widely used farm chemicals have led to at least 1,715 deaths over the past three years.“The deaths of nearly 600 people each year are directly a result of the use of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and pesticides,” National Health Security Office (NHSO) secretary-general ...
Chularat Saengpassa
Thailand launches food loss and waste reduction campaign
The Thai government has joined hands with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Japan to find measures to help reduce food loss and waste, while promoting sustainable agricultural development. The Assistant to the Permanent Secretary for Agriculture and Cooperatives, Rapibhat Chandarasrivongs, attended the launch ...
Tanakorn Sangiam
Thailand & Laos discuss reducing trade and investment barriers
Thailand and Laos have engaged in negotiations to reduce trade and investment barriers, with the aim of creating a logistics network that will boost bilateral trade to 11 billion US dollars by 2021, up from 6.1 billion dollars last year. Commerce Minister Sontirat Sontijirawong, today ...
Benjamin Rujopakarn
