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Klity creek on edge over new mine study
News, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 26/05/2013
» A feasibility study into old mines in Kanchanaburi has raised fears among villagers, still struggling with the Klity Creek disaster, that they will be reopened and degrade the environment even further.
Mom luk pla's pregnancy sparks anguish for couple
News, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 26/08/2012
» Mom Luk Pla, jailed nine days ago in the poisoning death of a prince, is three months pregnant, says her current husband, Thaweechai Noi, who has vowed to drive hundreds of miles every week to visit her in a Bangkok prison.
DSI paints grim picture of school tea money problem
News, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 10/06/2012
» Department of Special Investigation officers say the problem of pae chae _ or tea money _ will remain unresolved unless the school admission system is changed.
Court set to begin 2010 riot inquests
News, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 20/05/2012
» The first of 18 inquests into state authorities' involvement in the bloody red shirt crackdown which claimed 91 lives in 2010 will be held tomorrow.
Thailand deemed safe from a serious land earthquake
News, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 29/04/2012
» A frightening scenario of hundreds of buildings crashing down and tsunami surges devastating vast areas of Thailand is unlikely, experts say, even though numerous fault lines criss-cross the country.
PAD shelves mass rally over charter
News, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 11/03/2012
» The People's Alliance for Democracy yesterday backed away from its threat to stage a major Bangkok rally against the charter rewrite in a move hailed by the government as a breakthrough in easing political tensions.
Can Pattaya change its spots?
News, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 26/02/2012
» Pattaya _ the painted old lady by the sea_ is about to undergo a 15 billion baht face-lift. City executives ambitiously want to turn the city into ''New Pattaya, the World Class Greenovative Tourism City'' with a ''green and clean'' environment for tourists and locals.
Living in the ugly shadow of the kaeng sua ten dam
News, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 29/01/2012
» For three decades, the spectre of the Kaeng Sua Ten dam has been haunting 59-year-old Seng Kwanyuen. Every time there is a flood threat to residents downstream in the Chao Phraya river basin, the plan to build the dam resurfaces like a giant shadow.
Flood mitigation plan 'Unlikely to be in place in three years'
News, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 15/01/2012
» Up to 50 billion baht has been allocated to build dams under the classification of "forest restoration and conservation", according to a preliminary draft of the government's water management plan.