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The Foundation for Women and anti-smoking organizations in Thailand have jointly launched a campaign urging smokers to stop smoking for the sake of their families. The Foundation for Women as well as the Thai Health Promotion Foundation and a network of anti-smoking organizations announced today ...

The integration story of Southeast Asian nations, widely known as “ASEAN”, began in 1967 and has since brought about significant changes to the Southeast Asian region.For decades, ASEAN has played an instrumental role in maintaining political stability, fostering economic,trade and investment cooperation, as well as ...

The Thailand Research Expo 2018 is being held at Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Centre at CentralWorld until Monday (August 13), showcasing more than 600 useful studies. The organizer of this year’s Research Expo, the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT), has been able to ...

Governments and state enterprises play an important role in providing online public services, but involving the private sector can lead to more and better innovations, says a regional expert on Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Keep reading ...

Having succeeded in raising Thailand’s ratio of vocational students to 39.7 per cent this year – inching towards the government’s goal of 50 per cent – the Office of Vocational Education Commission (OVEC) head Suthep Chittayawong has vowed to boost it further.Keep reading ...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Friday (August 10) instructed the governors of 32 border provinces and Thai ambassadors to enhance cooperation with five neighbouring countries in Southeast Asia. Keep reading ...

Construction of the 323km double-track railway from Den Chai in Phrae to Chiang Khong on the Mekong River border will be accelerated so it can enter service two years earlier, the transport minister announced on Thursday (August 9). Keep reading ...

In a bid to speed up development, the Eastern Economic Corridor of Digital (EECD), one of the flagship developments under the government’s much-touted EEC scheme, will be developed under the public-private partnership (PPP) model. Keep reading ...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha chaired a meeting of the Eastern Economic Corridor Policy Committee to follow up on the project’s developments, which are progressing according to plan.The committee acknowledged the value of investment on the EEC project during January – June 2018 worth some 180 ...

The collapse of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy dam after heavy rains last month that killed more than 30 in Laos and left thousands of Lao and Cambodian people homeless is reigniting an urgent debate about preventing similar tragedies in future.Keep reading ...