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Financiers of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have committed to funding environmentally and socially sustainable projects, expanding on the $100 billion worth of “green” BRI projects since 2013 when the initiative was launched.In 2018, the Green Finance Committee (GFC) of the China Society for ...

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) is monitoring disease outbreaks during the rainy season, especially in the flooded areas.Keep watching ...

The Office of the Insurance Commission plans to revise standards for health insurance contracts to ensure that consumers get a fair deal.Suthipol Thawichaikarn, the commission’s secretary general, said executives of private insurance firms and other concerned parties would be consulted with an eye to reducing ...

Many key tourist destinations have been coping with many problems such as overcrowding, but the village Mae Kampong in Chiang Mai’s Mae On district has proved to be an exception.In fact, this popular attraction for eco-tourists has become a role model for sustainable and community-based ...

Thailand will propose a tax on over-the-top (OTT) service providers to Asean members when the region’s telecom regulators meet in Bangkok next week, says the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC).Keep reading ...

The government has developed urgent policies to cope with the volatility of the global economy especially the impact of the trade war between China and the United States. The Thai Chamber of Commerce (TCC) is ready to work closely with the Ministry of Commerce to ...

Deputy Prime Minister/Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit, has held a meeting to discuss the Farmers Rehabilitation and Development Fund which takes care of over 5.5 million farmers nationwide.Representatives of the Office of the Farmers Rehabilitation and Development Fund met with the deputy premier/commerce minister at Government ...

The Minister of Tourism and Sports has met with tourism business operators from the private sector in Krabi to hear comments and jointly develop tourism opportunities.Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn was accompanied by a team of officials on the visit to Krabi to meet ...

The way we produce, consume and discard food is no longer sustainable. That much is clear from the newly released UN climate change report which warns that we must rethink how we produce our food — and quickly — to avoid the most devastating impacts ...

With Greenland’s ice sheet now melting at a rate of up to 4.4 million swimming pools per day, Bangkok could be submerged under water much sooner than we had thought.That is not the only bad news. The Arctic permafrost is also rapidly thawing in the ...