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Locals shun panel on Pak Bara port project
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 25/05/2015
» SATUN: Activists from Satun are refusing to join a government panel which they say is intent on spinning a positive image of the Pak Bara deep-sea port megaproject.
Activists take aim at coal power plants
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 22/05/2015
» SATUN: Environmental activists kicked off a door-knocking campaign against coal-fired power plants in coastal provinces in the South yesterday.
HIV activists fight hep C drug patent
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 21/05/2015
» HIV/Aids patients and civic groups yesterday demanded the government not approve a private drug giant's request for a hepatitis C drug patent in Thailand.
Price fix bid irks private hospitals
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 19/05/2015
» Private hospital operators have urged the government to review price control measures amid complaints by patients of over-charging.
Destructive fishing practices 'ignored' under S44
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 18/05/2015
» 'We won't arrest you. We've come here to give you advice about what you need to do to meet EU standards in fishing," senior naval officer Capt Samreung Janso told a group of fishermen at a meeting in Prachuap Khiri Khan last month.
Jakarta mulls forest moratorium extension
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 14/05/2015
» SINGAPORE: Indonesia is mulling extending a forest moratorium, a two-year suspension of forest concessions which expire this year, to battle growing deforestation.
Police find more jungle graves
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 06/05/2015
» Five more graves have been found near a newly discovered migrant detention camp in the Padang Besar jungle in Songkhla's Sadao district.
Rohingya woman flees 'torture' camp
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 05/05/2015
» Padang Besar: A Rohingya woman was discovered Monday after she fled a jungle camp near Songkhla's Padang Besar town where she was allegedly detained and tortured.
Teen trafficking victims disappear
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 03/05/2015
» A Rohingya man who received a chilling phone call from a man demanding 60,000 baht each for the return of his kidnapped nephews is praying they weren’t killed and buried in the mass grave found on Friday near the Malaysian border.
Prayut's UC for poor call takes flak
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 28/04/2015
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's call to exclude rich people from the universal coverage (UC) healthcare scheme is a backwards step, civic leaders say.