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California celebrates New Year with marijuana sales
Associated Press, Published on 01/01/2018
» LOS ANGELES: Californians may awaken on New Year's Day to a stronger-than-normal whiff of marijuana as America's cannabis king lights up to celebrate the state's first legal retail pot sales.
Australia to permit medicinal cannabis exports in growing market
Reuters, Published on 04/01/2018
» SYDNEY: Australia said Thursday it planned to become the fourth country in the world to legalise medicinal marijuana exports in a bid to score a piece of the estimated $55 billion (1.8 trillion baht) global market.
NFI's direction for Thailand’s Future food industry
Published on 05/01/2018
» Future Food is one of the up-and-coming trends in the food industry these days. It is also one of the key industries driving the country’s economic development, as Thailand has an advantage in both being an agricultural country and possessing vast knowledge of food processing techniques. With a push in the right direction, the Thai food industry can certainly grow exponentially and achieve stability, prosperity, and sustainability.
It's all in the genes
News, Published on 06/01/2018
» Thai geneticist Vorasuk Shotelersuk was one of five people to win the Newton Award in 2017, receiving £200,000 (8.6 million baht) to sponsor research into the molecular pathology of rare genetic diseases (RGDs) in children.
Long fight against a hidden killer
Spectrum, Published on 07/01/2018
» The conflict may be over, but the danger lives on. Landmines left by insurgents and government forces have contaminated Thailand for more than four decades. Buried just beneath the surface, these weapons are designed to kill and injure those who misstep. They hide just off of well-worn paths, in fields, forests and sometimes dangerously close to places people call home.
Breathing uneasy: smog spurs health problems in New Delhi
Spectrum, Published on 07/01/2018
» When air quality levels in New Delhi rose over 40 times above the World Health Organisation's (WHO) safe limit, Rai, former president of the Indian Tour Agents Association, suffered a major asthma attack.
Drink drivers to provide community service for disabled
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 09/01/2018
» More than 6,650 drivers are being forced to do community service for dangerous driving, mostly while intoxicated, over the New Year festival.
Public health budget hike of 13% sought
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 09/01/2018
» The rising cost of medicine and hospital visits has prompted the Ministry of Public Health to propose a public health-care budget of 193 billion baht, up 13% from its present level.
War against corruption must begin at home
News, Soonruth Bunyamanee, Published on 10/01/2018
» The government has declared ending corruption is a national priority and, of late, it has come up with various anti-graft campaigns.
Only the poor end up dying screaming
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/01/2018
» If you had a million dollars to spend (but not on yourself), where would it do the most good? Well, the cost to cover morphine or a morphine-equivalent pain relief treatment for all the sick children younger than 15 years who are in really serious pain in low-income countries would be just $1 million (33.4 million baht) per year. About half of them of those children are going to die, but with morphine at least they wouldn't die screaming.