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There is no risk of Thailand suffering severe water shortage in 40 days as widely feared, Royal Irrigation Department (RID) chief Thongplew Kongchan affirmed, despite the low levels of usable water at the Chao Phraya River basin’s four major dams.He instructed irrigation projects to strictly ...

Thailand’s Ministry of Education will push for the inclusion of a third ‘language’, coding (computer programming language), in the curricula of Thai students, from kindergarten level if possible, said Deputy Education Minister Kalaya Sophonpanich on Friday.Keep reading ...

The government should put more effort into improving children’s mathematics skills to handle changes in the current world, an academic said, amid signs that the country is lagging regional competitors in innovation development.While science and mathematics are keys to innovation, there is big room for ...

The Office of the National Water Resources (ONWR) is planning to move forward with 100 water management projects worth Bt400 billion before the end of the year to boost available water up to 2.9 million cubic metres and cover the needs of 630,000 families nationwide, ...

An animal lover, nature lover and a Thai national, CEO of World Wide Fund-Thailand, Natalie Phaholyothin is particularly proud of Thailand’s national environment and wildlife heritage.“We have 127 national parks, which is quite a high number, and that in itself should be an indication of ...

The unseasonal drought currently affecting the lower Mekong Region has alerted both the public and the authorities to the activities of a series of dams further upstream on the international river.Jinghong Dam in China and Xayaburi Dam in Laos are both being blamed for the ...

Tackling the problems of people’s livelihoods is the most important of the government’s 12 urgent policies outlined to parliament on July 25, according to the result of an opinion survey carried out by Suan Dusit Rajabhat University, or Suan Dusit Poll.Keep reading ...

Last year, we were saddened by the hazards related to dam failures in the Mekong River basin after one of the saddle dams on the Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy hydro-electric project in Laos collapsed and the large amounts of impounded water then gushed downstream, causing massive ...

If you’ve been around Bangkok over the past few months, you may have seen a young woman accompanied by a black Labrador riding the BTS Skytrain or strolling through some department stores. Her story with Luther, her guide dog, has gone viral on social media.Keep ...

The Bank of Thailand (BOT)’s latest measure to manage the inflow of foreign money should not affect long-term foreign investment in the country, BOT director of economic analysis Pornpen Sodsrichai said on Thursday.Keep reading ...