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PM tells army to beef up drug, unrest fight
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 06/12/2023
» Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin on Tuesday asked the army to beef up forces to suppress illicit drug smuggling along the Myanmar border and unrest in the South.
PM eyes tourism-crimping haze
Panumate Tanraksa, Published on 30/11/2023
» Prime Minister and Finance Minister Srettha Thavisin on Wednesday voiced concern over the impact of PM2.5 pollution on Chiang Mai's tourism industry during the high season and pledged to hold talks with neighbouring countries to combat haze and smog pollution.
Srettha urges arms deals delay
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 03/10/2023
» Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has asked the armed forces to delay their arms procurement plans for the 2024 fiscal year so the government can spend its budget to help those who are most in need, sources said.
Heat rising on environmental problems
News, Published on 30/12/2021
» When it comes to ecological and climate-change issues, pressure is intensifying for solutions. Pratch Rujivanarom recalls five significant events which grabbed headlines this year.
PPRP MP Parina under fire for Ratchaburi poultry farm
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 12/11/2019
» The Royal Forest Department (RFD) on Monday confirmed that a 1,706-rai farm run by firebrand Palang Pracharath Party MP, Pareena Kraikupt's family is on Sor Por Kor land — special public plot assigned to farmers to make a living.
Palang Pracharath Party under fire for seminar venue
News, Post Reporters, Published on 23/07/2019
» The coalition-leading Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) has come under fire for organising a weekend seminar at a resort twice in trouble with the law for allegedly misusing land reserved for farming in Nakhon Ratchasima.
Putting out forest fires
News, Published on 21/11/2015
» ‘Never kill your brothers or sell your friends” is the much-quoted personal motto of late supreme commander Gen Sunthorn Kongsompong who led the coup in February 1991 that ousted the Chatichai Choonhavan government on the grounds of excessive corruption.
Dig row triggers land seizure
News, Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 27/09/2014
» Officials on Thursday confiscated 800 rai of hilltop forest areas in Kanchanaburi for investigation, responding to a complaint by local residents who accused a private firm of seeking minerals in the forest.
Indonesia haze hits Narathiwat
Waedao Harai, Published on 24/07/2014
» Smoke from forest fires in Indonesia's Sumatra island is creating hazy visibility in Thailand's southernmost province of Narathiwat on Thursday.
Low humidity scuttles rainmaking plans
News, Cheewin Sattha, Published on 03/03/2014
» The rainmaking operation in the North will be suspended in the next few days as low humidity in the drought-stricken region has rendered it impossible.