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Nepal closes schools after heavy rains kill 100
Published on 29/09/2024
» KATHMANDU - Nepal has shut schools for three days after landslides and floods triggered by two days of heavy rain across the Himalayan nation killed 100, with 67 missing, officials said on Sunday.
Only ‘poor Thais’ can be street vendors, says City Hall
Post Reporters, Published on 19/09/2024
» New City Hall rules say that only “poor Thais” will be allowed to be street vendors in Bangkok and they will be barred from employing migrants, among many other requirements.
Illegal villas closed on Koh Samui
Gary Boyle, Published on 18/09/2024
» Authorities have closed 21 villas built illegally on Koh Samui, some of them housing foreign tenants who were ordered to leave.
Illegal villas closed, tenants ordered out, on Koh Samui
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 18/09/2024
» SURAT THANI - Authorities have closed 21 villas built illegally on Koh Samui, some of them housing foreign tenants who were ordered to leave.
30 detained for forest violations, illegal entry
News, Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 14/09/2024
» Thirty people, including nine children, were arrested yesterday for crossing the border illegally, encroaching on forest land, and destroying the forest in Srinagarindra Dam National Park in Kanchanaburi.
Ex-banker sounds the alarm on Nan
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 07/09/2024
» The northern province of Nan is home to one of the country's key watershed forests, the source of several major waterways, including the Chao Phraya River. This forest area was declared a first-grade national forest in the 1960s.
Minister faces probe regarding state land
Onnucha Hutasingh, Published on 05/09/2024
» The Seub Nakhasathien Foundation has called on Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra to probe the qualifications of Chalermchai Sri-on, the new minister of natural resources and environment, over his alleged possession of 120 rai of state land.
'Dodgy' investors buying up land on Koh Chang
Gary Boyle, Published on 02/09/2024
» National parks chief Chaiwat Limlikhit-aksorn has expressed concern about an increase in land bought on Koh Chang in Trat province by investors with suspected links to shady businesses.
Temple land in Phuket seized after deadly landslides
Gary Boyle, Published on 02/09/2024
» The Royal Forest Department (RFD) on Saturday seized about 5 rai of land at the top of Nak Koet hill in Phuket believed to be linked to the Aug 23 landslides that killed 13 people.
'Dodgy' types buying up land on Thailand's Koh Chang island
News, Jakkrit Waewkraihong, Published on 02/09/2024
» National parks chief Chaiwat Limlikhit-aksorn has expressed concern about an increase in land acquisitions on Koh Chang in Trat province by investors with suspected links to shady businesses.