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  • THAILAND

    1,600 officials to ensure order at popular Songkran locations

    News, Published on 08/04/2024

    » At least 1,600 Bangkok officials and volunteers will be on duty over Songkran in Phra Nakhon district to ensure tourists' safety at popular spots like on the Khao San and Silom roads.

  • THAILAND

    A B1tn bridge to success

    Published on 25/02/2024

    » The government has vowed to go ahead with the 1-trillion-baht Land Bridge megaproject after the House of Representatives endorsed a feasibility study on the project last week.

  • THAILAND

    How to bring 'slave master' lenders to heel

    Published on 10/12/2023

    » The scale of Thailand's informal debt has captured the government's attention, prompting it to declare the matter a national agenda issue and roll out a nationwide programme for debtors to register for help.

  • THAILAND

    House wants answers to DSI transfer

    News, Published on 30/11/2023

    » The House Committee on Agriculture and Cooperatives says it will question the government and the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to find out why DSI director-general Pol Maj Suriya Singhakamol was suddenly transferred.

  • THAILAND

    Hands up for a pay rise

    Published on 12/11/2023

    » Despite being in office for only two months, the Pheu Thai-led government has made progress on several campaign pledges including plans to raise salaries for civil servants and the daily minimum wages for unskilled workers, although the timeframe set for these changes is within four years.

  • THAILAND

    'One student, one tablet' resurfaces

    News, Published on 15/09/2023

    » The Education Ministry is set to dust off a programme carried out by a previous Pheu Thai government a decade ago to provide students and teachers nationwide with a tablet computer each to promote equal opportunity in education.

  • THAILAND

    High hopes for policy statement

    Published on 11/09/2023

    » As the government spells out its policy statement in parliament on Monday, people have high expectations for it to make good on its promises to deal with bread-and-butter issues affecting their lives and turn the economy around.

  • THAILAND

    Jail beckons for Thaksin

    News, Published on 27/07/2023

    » Fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be treated as an elderly prisoner if he returns to Thailand to face his jail term, according to the Department of Corrections.

  • THAILAND

    Industry up in smoke?

    News, Published on 28/05/2023

    » The memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by eight prospective parties on forming a coalition government could be bad news for advocates of the current freer cannabis policy.

  • THAILAND

    Pheu Thai moves upset Move Forward

    News, Published on 30/04/2023

    » The Pheu Thai Party has adjusted its strategy, calling on voters to vote Pheu Thai to keep the other lot out, much to the displeasure of the Move Forward Party (MFP) whose campaign appears to be gaining traction.

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