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Rights violations found in coal project
News, Published on 16/07/2020
» The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has found human rights violations in an environmental impact assessment (EIA) report on a coal mine project in Chiang Mai's Omkoi district and recommended the plan be revised.
NACC’s new law on Conflict of Interest
Published on 08/06/2020
» Transparency is a fundamental principle that every worker should comply with, whether in the private or public sector. However, one of the positions kept an eye on transparency is state officials who are in positions that often have issues on conflict of private and public interests that are sometimes considered as serious problems.
About politics
News, Published on 06/05/2017
» Watered down reform proposals do not mean press is out of the woods yet v Sub purchase could decide if Adm Luechai wins top post, or torpedoes his chances v Witthaya Kaewparadai comeback has some Democrats in spin over Suthep return
Peaceful coexistence
Asia focus, Published on 12/12/2016
» Like spots on a leopard's hide, small wooden houses and tiny fenced plots dot the sprawling Grandis Timber teak plantation in western Cambodia.
New tax incentives aimed at summer spending sprees
Business, Lawalliance Limited Company, Published on 05/04/2016
» Once again, Thailand's hot summer has become the season for tax incentives. So much legislation has been coming out lately that it's difficult for taxpayers to ensure timely and accurate compliance.
Portraits of misery beneath the surface
Spectrum, Published on 06/12/2015
» Fine, black dust blankets nearly everything in Tigyit. It settles on rooftops and blows inside homes, bringing with it a noxious odour that clings to clothes and skin. In the dry months, locals say, it coats their crops, causing them to fail.
Family reunion underway as S.Korea-US army drill looms
AFP, Published on 23/02/2014
» A second group of South Koreans met North Korean relatives on Sunday at a reunion for families divided for decades, a day before South Korean-US military exercises that threaten to sour relations.
Indonesia struggles to clean up corrupt forestry sector
AFP, Published on 01/01/2014
» Deep in the forests of Borneo island, workmen from an Indonesian timber company fell a tree with a chainsaw, stick a red tag with a serial number onto it and attach a corresponding stub to the stump.
Pinij aids Thai bird's nest exports
Amnart Thongdee, Published on 21/02/2013
» Pinij Jarusombat, a key advocate of Thai-Chinese economic and social relations, has pledged to get the lucrative edible bird's nests exports to China back on track after the 14-billion baht industry was hit by Beijing’s tougher regulations on imports.
Corruption: Same sad story
Jon Fernquest, Published on 16/08/2012
» Govt officials & politicians routinely use job to profit from disaster victims, poor rice farmers & forest reserves. Bribes, 50% of government concessions costs.