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Farmers say 'holes' in toxins study reason to cancel ban
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 18/12/2019
» A network of farmers has pledged that it will file a petition with the Office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission against the Ministry of Public Health next month accusing it of using unreliable sources of information in its proposal to ban three toxic farm chemicals.
Dept vows to appeal Premchai acquittal
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 02/10/2019
» The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation has vowed to appeal Tuesday's court verdict acquitting construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta and his wife of illegal ivory possession.
Premchai 'ruse' hopes public forgets
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 08/06/2018
» A request by the so-called "dream team" of lawyers representing construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta that his case, which involves the alleged poaching and slaying of an endangered black leopard at a wildlife sanctuary, be transferred to another court is merely a legal ruse, the Sueb Nakhasathien Foundation said on Thursday.
Trafficking fight gets crack help
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 19/04/2018
» 'Forest Falcon" an operation launched last year by the authorities to deter on-line wildlife trafficking faces a daunting task as traffickers get smarter.
Fears grow about Premchai sentence
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 10/04/2018
» Conservationists fear that a legal loophole might spare construction titan Premchai Karnasuta, one of the suspects in the notorious Thungyai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary poaching case, from having to serve a prison sentence.
Officials accused in land conspiracy
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 16/09/2014
» The Royal Forest Department has filed complaints against 16 state officials and businessmen over an alleged conspiracy to issue illegal land title deeds inside national forest reserves in Phuket province over the past two decades.
Protest leaders get travel bans
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 08/02/2014
» The Centre for Maintaining Peace and Order (CMPO) has banned 58 anti-government protest leaders from leaving the country, Department of Special Investigation (DSI) chief Tarit Pengdith says.
Courts back locals in green fight
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 18/01/2013
» Residents fighting for their rights to live in a clean environment and to participate in natural resource management have won two historic court cases in the past eight days.
Resort demolition case heats up
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 10/08/2012
» Science and Technology Minister Plodprasop Surasawadi has denied involvement in granting a resort operator permission to use land inside Thap Lan National Park.