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Potash investment upsets locals
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 13/03/2023
» Locals in Chaiyaphum province have expressed alarm after the cabinet's decision in February to put an extra 90 million baht investment into Asean Potash Chaiyaphum Plc (APOT), seen as a push to revive the local potash mining industry.
Health chiefs aim to stamp out bent clinics
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 05/10/2020
» Phatchari Koetphaibanlak is immune to being told her access to medical treatment at a designated facility under the "gold card" universal healthcare scheme is in place pending a transfer.
Rules apply to rich and poor
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 09/12/2019
» Royal Forest Department director-general Atthaphon Charoenchansa grabbed headlines last week when he led RFD officials to file a formal complaint with police against Ratchaburi's Palang Pracharath MP, Pareena Kraikupt, for illegally occupying its 46-rai land for her poultry farm.
Xayaburi Dam in clear, says operator
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 28/07/2019
» The unseasonal drought currently affecting the lower Mekong Region has alerted both the public and the authorities to the activities of a series of dams further upstream on the international river.
Fighting for a way of life
Spectrum, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 24/06/2018
» The Supreme Administrative Court's ruling ordering the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation to pay 300,000 baht in compensation to six Karen people living in Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi province is a mixed victory for the minority group in its lengthy struggle with parks officials for the right to occupy forest land.
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.
The murky case of a missing activist
Spectrum, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 04/05/2014
» The finger of suspicion is firmly pointed at Kaeng Krachan National Park chief Chaiwat Limlikitaksorn over the disappearance of Porlajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen two weeks ago deep in the forest, but surprisingly those closest to the activist appear not to share those suspicions.