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Tie-up with e-commerce to curb inferior imports
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 11/12/2024
» The Commerce Ministry and relevant agencies plan to sign a memorandum of understanding with e-commerce platforms by early next year to prevent substandard imported products.
Fighting maternal mortality's toll
News, Published on 02/12/2024
» No mother should give her own life to give life to another. Unfortunately, preventing maternal mortality remains a persistent global challenge. The third United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) commits countries to reduce their maternal mortality rate to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030. At the current pace, the world is projected to fall far short of this target, resulting in more than one million additional, overwhelmingly preventable deaths.
More effort pledged to protect Buddhism
Published on 27/11/2024
» The government has vowed to work more actively to protect Buddhism by watching out for problems, instead of waiting until they make headlines or people complain about them.
Elephants retreat after night-long standoff near farmland in Korat
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 24/11/2024
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: About 100 wild elephants retreated after a standoff with volunteers trying to protect farmland in Khon Buri district of this northeastern Thai province from Saturday night to early Sunday morning.
Ministry preps platform to handle scammers
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 19/11/2024
» The Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry is developing the "DE-fence" platform to prevent fraudulent calls and text messages in a fresh effort to suppress call centre gangs.
Advocates blame lax law enforcement for high volume of road fatalities
News, Post Reporters, Published on 17/11/2024
» Road accident prevention advocates have called for stiffer enforcement of road safety laws as traffic accidents still exact a gruesome toll, with 48 fatalities registered per day on average now, according to a forum.
PDPC warns companies to safeguard data privacy
News, Post Reporters, Published on 05/11/2024
» The Personal Data Protection Committee (PDPC) has warned companies and government agencies to strictly safeguard people's data privacy in light of growing privacy violation complaints this year.
Thai govt urged to act on foreign businesses in tourism
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 22/10/2024
» The Senate is urging the government to crack down on tourism businesses run by local proxies of foreign citizens in an effort to protect local businesses against unfair competition.
State caught asleep at wheel
Editorial, Published on 06/10/2024
» The slow recovery of flood-ravaged areas in Chiang Rai province and alleged gold scams by online retailers Kornkanok "Mae Tuck" Suwannabut and her husband Kanpol "Pa Bia" Rueng-aram have one thing in common -- they show how state agencies are not doing enough to protect citizens.
Shield children from online abuse
News, Published on 23/09/2024
» Across Southeast Asia -- from Manila to Bangkok to Phnom Penh -- police are struggling to keep children safe from sexual exploitation and abuse, in particular online. Every day, millions of images and videos of children are shared on the internet, while authorities are increasingly at a loss for what to do.