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'Zero dropouts' billed as new school mantra
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 31/03/2022
» Bee Inthanon, 11, a fifth-grade student of Sin Rae Siam School in Ratchaburi's Suan Phueng district, knows all about hardship. For him, studying is a luxury -- second to putting bread on the table.
Backbone of migrant health care
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 24/04/2020
» Ranong and Samut Sakhon provinces have managed to keep Covid-19 infections at bay and credit for their impregnable defence is owed largely to village volunteer health workers.
Seminar urges citizens to curb violence against women
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 28/10/2018
» Around 30,000 women a year lodge police complaints about being physically assaulted, the Friends of Women Foundation says, urging males to stop committing violence against females.
EEC needs 30,000 workers
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 29/05/2018
» The Ministry of Labour will meet with cabinet members and present a strategy to produce more skilled labourers to match demand from the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) within two months after a survey found that almost 30,000 qualified workers are still required in the special economic zone.
1997 meltdown 'unheeded lesson'
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 03/07/2017
» The 1997 financial meltdown, known as the Tom Yum Kung crisis, is an important lesson for policy-makers on the need to ensure better protections for the labour sector -- the hardest hit by the crisis -- so workers do not end up as "easy victims" of economic vulnerability, according to Narong Phetprasert, Chulalongkorn University labour economist.
Poor build linked to resort fall on Koh Chang
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 08/06/2016
» A building at Siam Beach Koh Chang on Trat's Koh Chang which collapsed and claimed the life of a Thai tourist on Saturday was caused by soil erosion and weak foundations, the Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT) revealed yesterday.
A dry place to call home
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 27/07/2015
» Sanam Luang is often viewed as a large "home" for vagabonds, but few realise that many of the homeless who used to sleep there now rest with a roof over their heads in homes they have helped build.