The Nation
REPORT: Why Article 44 rode to DIGITAL TV’S RESCUE
Serious questions being asked about the handling of telecommunications frequencies hint that there is a deeper context to the decision by seven TV broadcasters to surrender their licences. To many observers, it no longer appears to be a simple matter of businesses abandoning ventures that ...
Piyaporn Wongruang
Team to zero in on competitiveness
Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak has instructed the country’s top planning agency to set up a high-powered team drawing on business leaders that will examine ways to boost Thailand’s competitiveness amid signs of slippage on key measures.Keep reading ...
The Nation Reporter
Sea (Thailand) aims to sharpen digital skills for new generation
Sea (Thailand), a leading internet company in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, operating three platforms known as Garena, Shopee, and AirPay, held a special talk show event entitle: “Sea insight Future Focus” share views on necessary skill sets that the new generation and professionals should possess ...
The Nation Reporter
BMA appeals for trees for green Bangkok project
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is seeking public donations of trees for its project to turn the capital green by next year.Chatree Watanakhachorn, director of the BMA’s Environment Department, said the project is part of the prime minister’s policy to have government agencies in the capital ...
The Nation Reporter
ADB calls for sustainable funding for transit systems
The Asian Development Bank has urged the Thai government and other governments in developing Asia to manage their debt carefully.The ADB has also proposed sustainable financing solutions for the rapid mass transit system in mega-cities like Bangkok, Jakarta and Manila. Meanwhile, a Thai land developer ...
Wichit Chaitrong
Healthcare access comes too late for homeless woman
A 61-year-old homeless woman who died of tuberculosis (TB) last month had only just been confirmed as a Thai in a DNA test, which would have earned her a citizenship card and access to the Bt30 healthcare scheme that could have saved her life.The tragedy ...
The Nation Reporter
Ideas in place to reverse decline in Thai education
The decades-long downward trend in the quality of Thai education can be reversed if key proposals set out over the past two years are embraced, members of the Independent Committee for Education Reform (ICER) believe.“We have already delivered tangible guidelines for the education sector,” ICER ...
Chularat Saengpassa
Thai environmentalists join worldwide climate 'strike'
Environmentally concerned citizens in Thailand joined climate activists across the world on Friday to campaign for urgent solutions to climate change.More than 100 people took part in “Climate Strike Bangkok” in downtown Bangkok as part of the larger campaign “Global Climate Strike For Future”, which ...
Pratch Rujivanarom
SPECIAL REPORT: The “Spirit of Roaming” no longer roams at Moken community on Surin Island
Suriyan “Hook” Kla-thalae, a 36-year-old Moken born on Koh Surin, keeps dreaming that he’ll get his community’s boat, known as a kabang, back out on the Andaman Sea. But it remains anchored on shore on the island, which lies 60 kilometres off the Phang Nga ...
Piyaporn Wongruang
Bridge to a healthier future
Bangkok’s massive makeover is about to begin ahead of its 250th anniversary as the Thai capital with the Phra Pok Klao Skypark crossing the Chao Phraya River. Making use of an aborted Lavalin Skytrain span – the centre lane of Phra Pok Klao Bridge, which ...
Phatarawadee Phataranawik