The Nation
Smog serious threat to public health: experts
Air pollution blankets capital for third day in a row, with prospects of prolonged unhealthy air quality levels.Authorities must take the air pollution problem in Bangkok seriously and strictly enforce mitigation measures to protect people’s health, academics said, while warning of serious financial costs to ...
Pratch Rujivanarom
Call for improved daycare facilities to help working parents
Daycare facilities and companies need to adjust their environment to help working parents who are leading modern urban lives, a panel discussion was told on Thursday.Many Thai parents have to send their children to be raised by grandparents upcountry while they toil in the city, ...
Kornrawee Panyasuppakun
Health concerns rise in smog-bound Bangkok
Air pollution in the greater Bangkok area was again threatening residents’ health on Sunday morning. The amount of PM2.5 – airborne dust particles 2.5 microns in diameter or less – exceeded the safe level of 50 micrograms per cubic metre of air along roads in ...
The Nation Reporter
Handbook of new standards coming for kindergartens and nurseries
To ensure up-to-par good quality in early childhood care and education at 53,335 kindergartens and nurseries nationwide, the Education Council is now in process of printing a handbook for distribution.The booklet will detail the “National Standard for Early Childhood Care, Development and Education in Thailand” ...
The Nation Reporter
Social media to play major role in vote
For the first time since the last general election five years ago, Thailand is witnessing the fast-growing power of social media platforms, especially among young voters, indicating the polls expected in March this year will be significantly influenced by Line, Facebook, Twitter and other non-traditional ...
Asina Pornwasin
Thai project offers hope for endangered Indochinese tigers
As one of the last refuges of Indochinese tigers, Thailand is working to protect the endangered big cats from poachers. A tiger conservation centre was launched last Friday in Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, where forest rangers will be trained to track the endangered big cats, ...
Kornrawee Panyasuppakun
Thai parks’ protectors must recognise ethnic group's rights, experts say
Thailand must follow the example of neighbouring countries and honour the constitutional right of Karen people in Phetchaburi’s Kaeng Krachan National Park to live on what has been their ancestral land for centuries, say academics.Kittisak Prokati, a law lecturer at Thammasat University, said the Constitution ...
Pratch Rujivanarom
Thai investment view undimmed by strains of world economic tensions
The Board of Investment (BoI) has increased its target for investment into the country lured by its privileges in spite of the uncertain economic conditions. While the 2019 target of Bt750 billion exceeds that of last year’s Bt720 billion, it has been described as conservative.Keep ...
Phuwit Limviphuwat
Exports, tourism to face heat amid global strains
Expectations for sluggish economic growth this year are firming, with the nation’s peak private-sector grouping flagging potential hits to exports and tourism from the prospect of simultaneous slowdowns in China and the United States and the trade war they are waging.Keep reading ...
The Nation Reporter
Asia’s largest LGBTQ exhibition to open in Bangkok later this year
In keeping with the Kingdom’s progressive stance on LGBTQ rights, a major art exhibition exploring gender rights in Asia is to be staged in the capital.“Spectrosynthesis II- Exposure of Tolerance: LGBTQ in Southeast Asia”, the largest-ever survey of regional contemporary art, will explore gender issues ...
Phatarawadee Phataranawik