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Firms urged to give paid menstrual leave
News, Published on 23/05/2025
» The Labour Department is encouraging employers to provide paid menstrual leave and free sanitary pads, as campaigned for by women's rights advocates.
Back to school, please
News, Editorial, Published on 21/05/2025
» As students across the country return to school for the new semester, 800 children who have been studying at learning centres for migrant and refugee students in Samut Sakhon are being forced to stay home.
Thai fruit farmers urge govt to recruit K-pop sensation Lisa
News, Published on 18/05/2025
» Local fruit farmers have urged Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra to enlist Thai K-pop sensation Lalisa "Lisa" Manobal in a campaign to promote Thai fruits to boost international sales.
Illegal migrants arrested in Nakhon Si Thammarat
News, Published on 15/05/2025
» NAKHON SI THAMMARAT – Authorities on Thursday raided a construction site in Tha Sala district of this southern province and arrested four unregistered Myanmar nationals, along with their Thai employer and a residence owner.
Thai Student Awarded Global Youth Action Fund 2025 for Transforming Hotel Waste into Humanitarian Aid
Published on 15/05/2025
» Bangkok, Thailand – Phoonseeraah “Ada” Tieanworn, a student at Choate Rosemary Hall, USA, has been named by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IB)—a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and founded in 1968—as a recipient of the Global Youth Action Fund 2025. This highly competitive award includes $2,500 USD in funding to expand her initiative, Global Hospitality Aid (GHA), which pioneers upcycling of byproducts from Thailand’s hotel industry into survival kits for displaced individuals in conflict and disaster zones around the world.
Monitor lizard seen feeding on child’s body in Samut Prakan
Online Reporters, Published on 14/05/2025
» SAMUT PRAKAN - A monitor lizard was found feeding on the remains of a newborn child behind a workers’ housing area in Bang Phli district.
Migrant workers ‘face growing risk’ in Saudi Arabia
AFP, Published on 14/05/2025
» PARIS - Human Rights Watch on Wednesday said grave abuses were being committed on giant construction sites in Saudi Arabia and warned the risks to migrant workers could increase as the building of stadiums for the 2034 World Cup gathers pace.
Leo XIV, first US pope, to celebrate first mass as pontiff
AFP, Published on 09/05/2025
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Leo XIV will celebrate mass Friday, the day after becoming the first US head of the Catholic Church, with the world watching for signs of what kind of pope he will be.
'Great honour': Leaders welcome Leo, first US pope
AFP, Published on 09/05/2025
» PARIS — World leaders welcomed the election Thursday of Robert Francis Prevost as the next leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.
Cardinals elect first American pope as Robert Francis Prevost becomes Leo XIV
AFP, Published on 09/05/2025
» VATICAN CITY - Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday after cardinals from around the globe chose him as the first American leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.