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20 officers linked to loan graft of B30m
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 20/10/2022
» Builders of the army's housing loan projects have complained to the Defence Ministry over alleged corruption in the force's internal loan system, which is believed to implicate at least 20 military officers.
Probe army graft claims
Oped, Editorial, Published on 20/10/2022
» The Royal Thai Army is facing new graft accusations. This time a senior military officer was accused of swindling some of the system's funds on an army housing project.
Army loan fund faces probe
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 19/10/2022
» The army will probe its internal lending system after a senior military officer was accused of swindling some of the system's funds.
Time to improve migrants' housing
News, Published on 26/09/2022
» 'It has been raining heavily and my house is now flooded," said a migrant worker who has been living in one of the largest construction workers' campsites on the east coast of Thailand for half a decade.
DCY upholds 6P principles amid disruption of children’s rights and welfare
Published on 23/09/2022
» Amid the Covid-19 pandemic and current social and economic risks that are severely affecting children and youth, the Department of Children and Youth (DCY) under the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security has implemented its “6P” (Policy, Potential, Protection, Prevention, Partnership, Participation) principles and digital service system to handle crises and disruptions to children’s and youth’s rights and promote family welfare in a thorough and transparent way.
Swiss mull banning factory farms
AFP, Published on 22/09/2022
» GENEVA: The Swiss will vote Sunday on whether to ban intensive livestock farming in the largely rural country, which already has some of the world's strictest animal welfare laws.
Marxist mayor a hit with the wealthy
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/08/2022
» That the conservative mayor would win yet again, and serve a fifth term, had been treated as a foregone conclusion in Graz, Austria's second-largest city, a place where it's not uncommon to encounter local residents proudly dressed in traditional lederhosen and dirndls.
Lending a helping hand
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 14/08/2022
» Abortion has been banned in Poland for 29 years, but that has done little to prevent women from finding access to the procedure, leaving Rev Tomasz Kancelarczyk a busy man.
Hong Kong's homeless numbers surge to 10-year high
Published on 07/08/2022
» HONG KONG: Hong Konger To Hanh-duyen, 47, slept on a bench in a park in Tai Kok Tsui for more than a month through summer nights.
The potential of sustainable wood
Oped, Published on 05/08/2022
» Forests are not just the lungs of the planet: they have huge potential, if managed sustainably, to become a major source of welfare, income and renewable products as part of a more healthy global economy.