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Freak storms would raise flood risk
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 01/06/2018
» Flood-related problems will be less severe this year unless the country faces freak storms, Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Grisada Boonrach said on Thursday.
Pressure builds for ban on herbicides
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 17/05/2018
» Academic experts have urged the committee making decisions on the use of chemicals to ban the herbicides paraquat, glyphosate and chlorpyrifos.
Public to decide fate of trouble-making monkeys
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 15/05/2018
» Phuket province will hold a public meeting next month to come up with ways to deal with a growing monkey population that has become menace to residents and tourists.
Effluent, garbage foul Doi Suthep
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 30/04/2018
» Untreated water and garbage from more than 300 shops and a large number of tourists at Doi Suthep in Chiang Mai province has been damaging the ecological system in surrounding forests and a nearby water source.
Jumbos surviving by the skin of their teeth
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 26/04/2018
» Higher demand for elephant skin -- popular among traditional medicine practitioners in China -- stands as the latest threat to endangered Asian elephants, especially those living in the forests of Myanmar, according to a report by Elephant Family, a conservation charity based in the UK.
Trafficking fight gets crack help
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 19/04/2018
» 'Forest Falcon" an operation launched last year by the authorities to deter on-line wildlife trafficking faces a daunting task as traffickers get smarter.
Fishing sector 'shipshape' ahead of EU scrutiny
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 03/04/2018
» In a bid to get the European Union's yellow card lifted from the lucrative fishery sector, Thai authorities have completed the registration of migrant workers ahead of a visit by an EU inspection team.
All that glisters is not gold
Spectrum, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 01/04/2018
» More than a year after the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) used Section 44 -- the special executive order in the interim charter -- to close Chatree gold mine in the Central Plains region at the beginning of January 2017, conflicts centred on pollution and disputes between the state and the gold mining company are far from over.
Jumbo efforts in motion to save a national icon
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 14/03/2018
» Thai culture and elephants have been intertwined for centuries. During wartime, jumbos were part of the army. According to historical records, monarchs would ride elephants in duels against enemy kings.
Police captain rapped over tycoon's animal cruelty charge
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 02/03/2018
» A police captain in Kanchanaburi province has been put on probation for accepting a complaint of cruelty to animals, later withdrawn, against construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta, who is accused of illegally hunting endangered animals in a World Heritage forest last month.