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Migrants band together in virus fight in hard-hit areas
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 14/08/2021
» On the outskirts of Bangkok adjacent to Samut Sakhon, many Covid-19 patients are migrant workers and migrant health volunteers from those communities are playing an important role in helping support local isolation schemes.
Third wave's unpalatable reality
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 28/04/2021
» The third wave of Covid-19 in Thailand is nothing short of an unprecedented crisis for the country's public health system, just as it is for its already flailing economy.
Back to the railway future?
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 27/07/2019
» The idea of an adventure walk through a run-down train yard overgrown with tall trees may not be everyone's cup of tea.
Blue-collar care in an expensive age
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 03/01/2019
» Finding jobs in Bangkok is hard for blue-collar workers who leave their rural homes to hunt for work in the capital city.
Street vendor rules in Bangkok 'hurting tourism'
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 27/11/2018
» City Hall's efforts to regulate the use of pavements is damaging one of Thailand's biggest tourism draws, an expert at Chulalongkorn University's Urban Design and Development Centre (UCDC) has warned.
Service centres for migrants to re-open
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 20/04/2018
» The Labour Ministry's one-stop service (OSS) centres will resume services nationwide next Monday in a bid to legalise migrant labourers who had registered online by last month.
Fish price hikes minimal despite stoppage
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 06/07/2015
» Chon Buri: Most consumers here have yet to feel the pinch of an ongoing strike by unauthorised fishing trawlers, saying the prices of their seafood purchases remain, more or less, the same.