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Thailand races to create coronavirus vaccine, eyes possible medical tourism boost
Thailand: Momentum is building behind Thailand’s push to create its own coronavirus vaccine, with more manpower and resources dedicated to the effort amid hopes it could boost medical tourism.Thai trials of an experimental vaccine using monkeys started last month, one of at least 100 potential ...
Thailand passes record stimulus package to combat COVID-19 impact
Thailand’s parliament approved on Sunday (May 31) a near-US$60 billion stimulus package, the kingdom’s biggest-ever cash injection, to revive an economy that has been hammered by the coronavirus.The 1.9 trillion baht (US$59.7 billion) package would be a much-needed boost for Southeast Asia’s second-biggest economy, expected ...
Bangkok breathes cleaner air during COVID-19 pandemic and experts want it to last
Analysis of air quality in Bangkok since the Thai government began enforcing strict social isolation measures has found significant drop in dangerous pollution levels of more than 20 per cent, as compared with the same time last year.The average levels of PM2.5 – tiny atmospheric ...
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The fight to save Bangkok from sinking into watery depths
When landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom and her landscape design studio, Landprocess, created a park in central Bangkok in 2017, it was no ordinary park.It was a green basin to help the city soak up excess water — up to 4.5 million litres — by funnelling ...
World Bank says Thai poverty rate increases, farm income slides
Thailand needs to invest in education and create jobs in higher-income sectors, the World Bank said in a report on Thursday (Mar 5) that showed a rising rate of poverty as the country’s economy slowed.Thailand is Southeast Asia’s largest economy after Indonesia but has lagged ...
Can ‘alternative schools’ revolutionise Thai education and improve children's capabilities?
The school children of Huay Pan are getting ready for their afternoon lesson where they will be taught about water.There is nothing particularly unusual about what their teacher has got planned for them, with one exception. The classroom will be the Nan River, a 740-km ...