Bangkok Post
Thailand can be a champion for migrants
Signed and sealed. The formal endorsement of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration by the UN General Assembly in New York this week was a momentous occasion. Keep reading ...
Getting started on change to improve learning
We’re fast approaching the New Year, when many of us will be making resolutions because we want to change ourselves for the better and help improve the things around us.We all want change but sometimes we cannot go through with it. One of the things ...
Ministry eyes digital skills for 4 million
The Digital Economy and Society (DE) Ministry aims to train 4 million people in digital literacy through its Net Pracharat course, as well as in the Sustainable Thainess programme offered by the Office of Non-Formal and Informal Education (NFE). Keep reading ...
Komsan Tortermvasana
The invisible workforce
This year saw the government achieve some success in its efforts to deal with illegal migrant workers, a problem often linked with forced labour and human trafficking. In June, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha thanked the United States’ Department of State for upgrading Thailand in its ...
Penchan Charoensuthipan & Wassayos Ngamkham
Power forums lack spark
Thailand will soon launch its national Power Development Plan (PDP) 2019-2027, which was put up for debate in public hearings in four regions and Bangkok this month. The final hearing on the PDP draft took place in Bangkok on Monday, following others in Chiang Mai, ...
Time to take climate action
The 24th Conference of the Parties to the UN climate change framework (COP24) has ended. With a certain direct sense of irony, it was held in Katowice, Poland, the centre of coal production in eastern Europe. The achievements of the two weeks of meetings, extended ...
Bridging the gaping wealth chasm
Although the military-led government has rolled out a raft of stimulus and relief measures to shore up the grassroots economy, spending and indebtedness among the underprivileged are still rampant. Keep reading ...
Wichit Chantanusornsiri
Local steel industry roadmap en route
The Industry Ministry will call on local steel manufacturers to collaboratively design a 5-10 year roadmap for the development of the country’s steel industry to serve new targeted industries in the flagship Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). Keep reading ...
Lamonphet Apisitniran
Border cops in tourism deal
The Thai Border Patrol Police force has reached an agreement with its Myanmar counterpart to turn parts of the western forest in Kanchanaburi’s Thong Pha Phum district into a new tourist attraction. Keep reading ...
Wassayos Ngamkham
China weakness depresses emerging market shares
Emerging market stocks recorded a second consecutive week of losses amid worries about a slowdown in China’s economy, reflected in weak retail sales and tepid industrial output growth. Also hurting sentiment was the decision by the European Central Bank to end its massive asset-buying scheme, ...
Nuntawun Polkuamdee & Darana Chudasri