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Improving Thailand's educational system
Jon Fernquest, Published on 17/05/2012
» Teaching students the skills that employers need so they can get jobs is not as easy as it sounds.
Thailand's rice sector doomed?
Jon Fernquest, Published on 23/04/2012
» Thai rice sector may be heading towards corruption-plagued government-to government trading, business given to companies that do business with the politicians in power, many exporters may be wiped out.
Korean Investment: 12 billion baht
Jon Fernquest, Published on 27/03/2012
» Thai govt roadshow attracts investment from line-up of Korea's top companies & SMEs: electronics, electrical appliances, even solar power & electricity from garbage.
Elephant kiss of death
Jon Fernquest, Published on 05/03/2012
» Elephant in a frenzy of lust (musth) goes crazy, kills owner, then goes crazy again, chases driver, collapses, dies from heart failure.
Flood unemployment
Jon Fernquest, Published on 17/02/2012
» Moving to Eastern Seaboard or Korat may be only choice for some Ayutthaya workers who lost jobs during floods. Over age 30 may mean no job anywhere for them.
Flood prevention: Construction not only answer
Jon Fernquest, Published on 14/02/2012
» Walls, drains, dams are built & sit there for a long time while flood risks change. Flexible risk info-driven approach needed.
Raw fish & cancer in Thailand
Jon Fernquest, Published on 21/01/2012
» Raw meat's link with liver cancer, long known, is now the focus of a childhood education programme to stop deadly bad habits forming.
Hide the government debt? (like Greece)
Jon Fernquest, Published on 20/01/2012
» Heed central bank & international financial markets warns outgoing Finance Minister Thirachai (former central banker & securities regulator).
Post-Flood: Massive lay offs feared
Jon Fernquest, Published on 19/01/2012
» 27,390 workers already laid off in provinces around Bangkok. 822,341 have returned to work but 167,753 employees still without jobs.
Floods: Duel of the sluicegates
Jon Fernquest, Published on 30/11/2011
» Rogue red shirt police major takes law into own hands with locals, back & forth sluicegate duel: half meter up, half meter down, Bangkok governor says stop ...