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Regional Consultation on South-South Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific
On 27 June 2018, H.E. Mr. Vijavat Isarabhakdi, Special Envoy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, delivered a welcoming address at the Regional Consultation on South-South Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific: Towards the Buenos Aires Plan of Action 40th Anniversary, alongside Mr. ...
Business can join trafficking fight
The recent upgrading of Thailand’s status to Tier 2 of the US Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) is a positive development that will be welcome by many. While Thailand has yet to fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, the report recognises ...
Dana Graber Ladek
Workers without papers face action
Authorities have started a crackdown on undocumented migrant workers nationwide after the deadline for proper registration ended over the weekend, with more than a third of a million workers from neighbouring countries having obtained their required permits in the latest round of registration.Keep reading ...
The Nation Reporter
Business path leads to eco-tourism venture
When Prasert Popaitoon gazed into the future and thought about retirement needs, he realised that he and his wife would not be able to live in the comfort they wanted if he continued in his salaried job.Keep reading ...
Somluck Srimalee
Lengthy delay for new property tax
The land and buildings tax set for Jan 1, 2019 is likely to be enforced behind schedule because of the time-consuming approval process, says an informed source at the Finance Ministry. Keep reading ...
Wichit Chantanusornsiri
The future of work
Artificial Intelligence, robotics and machine learning are now frequently-used vocabulary, and as they become integrated into our lives we soon won’t be able to live without them. Like it or not, these technologies will drastically change the future of work. As thousands of jobs are ...
Thiraya Thiranakanat
Powerful computers to help in weather, natural disaster predictions
Weather forecasts and predictions of natural disasters in high-risk areas should be more accurate after the Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) implements a new high-performance computing (HPC) solution.Keep reading ...
The Nation Reporter
Thailand’s manufacturing environment improves marginally in June
Thailand’s manufacturing sector improved only marginally in June. Production and input inventories increased, but they were offset by a decline in new orders and lower employment.Keep reading ...
Migrants face changing climate
The arrival of May once reminded Lin Na that the first rain of the year was on its way. The ground in her small village of Prey Veng province in southern Cambodia would start to soften, dampened by rainfall. This time each year, she would ...
Paritta Wangkiat
Deluge of electronic waste turning Thailand into ‘world’s rubbish dump’
At a deserted factory outside Bangkok, skyscrapers made from vast blocks of crushed printers, Xbox components and TVs tower over black rivers of smashed-up computer screens.This is a tiny fraction of the estimated 50m tonnes of electronic waste created just in the EU every year, ...
Hannah Ellis-Peterson
