Bangkok Post

Egat to float solar panels at dams

The state-run Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) will start installation of floating solar panels in April at five hydropower plants in five provinces. The project was approved by the National Energy Policy Council last Thursday. Keep reading ...

Yuthana Praiwan

Corruption rises in Thailand, global watchdog says

Thailand dropped to 36 points, one lower than the year before, in Transparency International’s 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index for 2018 released on Tuesday. The index ranges from 100 (very clean) to 0 (very corrupt).Keep reading ...

EEC gets 400,000 rai for development

As much as 400,000 rai will be designated for industrial areas within the government’s flagship Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). Monton Sudprasert, director-general of the Public Works and Town and Country Planning Department, said a town planning draft for the EEC was approved by the EEC ...

Chatrudee Theparat

Nation cynical about election

The Election Commission (EC) is being urged to ensure fair and transparent elections in the wake of extremely low public confidence in the integrity of the process in the run-up to the March 24 contest. In the latest findings by the National Institute of Development ...

Bangkok Post Reporter

Promoting digital from the bottom up

Chai Wutiwiwatchai is the first director of the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (Nectec) to be promoted not from a deputy director position, but from the top job at a research unit. Nectec has initiated many advanced research projects related to computers and technology, ...

Sasiwimon Boonruang

Thailand in need of 'Energy 4.0’

The transformative potential enabled by the intersection of clean energy technologies and the interconnected digital economy offers an ideal platform for powering “Thailand 4.0”. Adopted by the Thai government in 2016, Thailand 4.0 is a model for growth that aims to transform Thailand into a high-income country, ...

Pradeep Tharakan

New rules stink, say fishermen

Samut Songkhram is the smallest province in the country, but has been known as a hub for Thailand’s fishing industry for decades. The province has a 23km shoreline, dotted with fishing piers. Along its are food processing plants, and it is only an hour’s drive ...

Apinya Wipatayotin

Cabinet approves price control at hospitals

Prices of drugs, medical supplies and medical services will soon be overseen by a joint panel after the cabinet approved adding them to the price control list on Tuesday.Unlike other goods, the addition of these products to the list does not mean their prices would ...

Bangkok Post Reporter

Domestic violence reports soar in 2019

Just over two weeks after the new year began, reports of domestic violence doubled from the rate of the same period last year. However, rights advocates say agencies in charge of handling the problem are slow to react and tend to view it as merely ...

Penchan Charoensuthipan

Czechs eye Thai trade, technology

The government of the Czech Republic along with 39 companies from the Central European country met with the Thai government on Wednesday to discuss investment in trade and technological development in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). The meeting resulted in the two governments signing a ...

Lamonphet Apisitniran

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