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REPORT: Organic products face new challenges as market moves online
Every one’s going organic, but few really care about the essence of “being organic”The Growing demand for “clean and green” food is having an immediate effect in both the real and virtual worlds, but there is still doubt as to whether people are grasping the ...
Piyaporn Wongruang
Policy rate change ‘unlikely’ this year
The Bank of Thailand (BOT) is expected to maintain its policy interest rate at 1.75 per cent until at least the end of 2019, according to TMB Analytics.The next meeting of the country’s Monetary Policy Committee will be on June 26, 2019. Many central banks ...
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$200m contribution set for ACMECS fund
The Cabinet yesterday decided to set aside a budget of US$200 million (Bt6.4 billion) as contribution for the Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS) fund within five years.Keep reading ...
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Obstacles ahead on road to the EEC
The new government can expect to face multiple challenges in implementing the ambitious Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) initiative if it is truly to lift the economy to the next level, in the eyes of the business community and residents of the region.Keep reading ...
Wichit Chaitrong
New health centres aim to serve foreigners with world-standard services
Foreigners can conveniently now access international-standard healthcare services from the newly established Foreign Customer Service Centres (FCSC) at 133 centres and general hospitals nationwide.Keep reading ...
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Plans for a stable in sea to protect baby dugong from storms
Marine Park officials, veterinarians from the Department of National Parks (DNP) and experts at Chulalongkorn University are looking for ways to protect the recently rescued dugong Mariam from strong waves in the upcoming storm season.Keep reading ...
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Giant drains ‘will not prevent floods’
Academic urges BMA to make it mandatory for big condo, office building projects to build underground water banks. Even with 20 giant drainage tunnels, Bangkok will never be safe from floods, predicts a respected university lecturer.Thanawat Jarupongsakul, who teaches at Chulalongkorn University’s Department of Geology, ...
Chularat Saengpassa
Criminal Justice Reform A Lesson On Comparative Criminal Justice
As of May 2019, there are 386,902 inmates in the Thai prison system. In 2018, the food cost for prisoners totaled 7,521,347,880 baht or 54 baht per day. Prisons are overcrowded retaining nearly four times as many as inmates than its actual capacity, while crime ...
Climate change on track to reduce ocean wildlife by 17%
Climate change is set to empty the ocean of nearly a fifth of all living creatures, measured by mass, by the end of the century, researchers have calculated.In a world that heats up three to four degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels, 17 percent of ...
‘Consumer-centric’ is healthcare of the next decade
In the next 12 years, the healthcare industry will face major demographic changes that would dramatically impact which services are needed and how they are delivered.As millennials, Generation X, and baby boomers will enter new life stages at the same time, there will be simultaneous ...
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