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Thai PM: Mud must be cleared from Chiang Rai promptly
Post Reporters, Published on 22/09/2024
» Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has ordered officials to remove thick layers of mud from flooded Chiang Rai as soon as possible, while flood-related garbage and debris is estimated to be about 68,000 tonnes in this northernmost Thai province.
Councillors back plan to relocate port
News, Post Reporters, Published on 14/08/2024
» City councillors have submitted a letter supporting the Transport Ministry's plan to move Bangkok port out of the capital to reduce city congestion and air pollution.
Agency to study new port plan
News, Post Reporters, Published on 06/08/2024
» The Transport Ministry ordered a feasibility study to be conducted on the relocation of Bangkok Port in Klong Toey district after a poll showed people's positive feedback on the project.
China to help curb shady businesses
News, Post Reporters, Published on 12/07/2024
» Thailand and China will cooperate in weeding out call centre scam gangs and mitigating shady business ventures operated by Chinese citizens.
Locals slam dolomite mine plan
News, Post Reporters, Published on 10/07/2024
» Locals near Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi are protesting the opening of a private dolomite mine on a 540-rai plot of land located just a kilometre from the national park due to concern about how it will impact their way of life and the park's environment.
Chiang Mai sets B10,000 reward for reporting forest burners
Post Reporters, Published on 10/03/2024
» CHIANG MAI: The governor of the northern province has announced a 10,000-baht reward to anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest of a person who sets fire to forested areas.
Unsafe dust levels in 51 provinces
Post Reporters, Published on 22/01/2024
» Fifty-one of the 77 provinces were shrouded with hazardous levels of ultra-fine dust on Monday morning, most of them in the Central Plains, the North and the Northeast.
Unsafe smog covers 42 provinces
Post Reporters, Published on 27/12/2023
» Forty-two out of 77 provinces in Thailand were blanketed with thick and harmful levels of ultrafine dust on Wednesday morning and the affected regions were mostly in the Central Plains, the lower North and the upper Northeast, according to the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Gistda).
Hazardous smog moves to North, West
Post Reporters, Published on 14/12/2023
» The levels of particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns, known as PM2.5, reached dangerous levels in parts of the North and the western region on Thursday morning, while Samut Songkhram was the only province in the red zone, indicating PM2.5 readings exceeded the acceptable standard of 50 microgrammes per cubic meter (µg/m³) of air.
33 provinces still blanketed by thick smog
Post Reporters, Published on 13/12/2023
» Dangerous levels of ultrafine dust covered 33 of the 77 provinces on Wednesday morning, an improvement on 47 provinces on Tuesday morning, and the peak pollution level was also down.