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Britain's royal baby: Live Report
AFP, Published on 22/07/2013
» WE ARE NOW CLOSING this Live Report on the birth of the royal baby in Britain.
Portal to the past
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 20/06/2013
» To city folk, who prize it as place to buy fabric, garments and other goods at bargain prices, its name is now synonymous with what tourists call Chinatown, but Sampheng was once the bustling heart of this capital of ours, an important port and trading hub with a cosmopolitan tolerance for all faiths which, in addition to temples and shrines for Buddhists of different schools, also accommodated places of worship for Muslims.
Leaders call on UN to set new zero poverty target
AFP, Published on 31/05/2013
» The leaders of Britain, Indonesia and Liberia on Thursday called on the United Nations to set a target of 2030 to eradicate extreme poverty, as the spearhead of new development goals.
Pmove offers us solutions
News, Published on 17/05/2013
» When Yingluck Shinawatra made her policy announcements as the government took office two years ago, she made several promises to the landless movement. They included the setting up of a land bank to help the landless, issuing community rights land deeds to keep farmland out of landlords' hands, and changes to draconian forest laws to make forest chiefs honour community rights and to stop them harassing forest people. Those promises were only for show.
The rite of preservation
News, Published on 11/05/2013
» The caravan made up of 60 e-tok farm trucks brought kids and adults running as the cacophony of noise and vibrant colours created a scene of excitement in Ban Nam Pak Moo 1 in tambon Khun Khuan in Phayao's Pong district.
Polite rejection awaits Pmove protesters
News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 10/05/2013
» Before leaving for Bangkok, farmer Wai Pongphim, 60, told youngsters at home that his stay in the capital was likely to be a long one. Together with some 20 others from Ban Ta Mui in Ubon Ratchathani's Khong Chiam district, he was leaving to join other villagers from across the country in a rally at Government House.
Bar for Bar
Guru, Richard Mcleish, Published on 10/05/2013
» While the traditional Bangkok bar as considered internationally probably needs hosing down at close every night (for a number of reasons), two new venues on the scene are stretching the scope with concepts of their own.
'New' top-down policies ignore plight of poor
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 08/05/2013
» Twenty-five years on, Sompong Wiangjand's fight to decommission the Pak Moon Dam _ destroyer of the Moon River ecosystem and the livelihoods of thousands of families _ is far from over.
3,000 tipped to rally against govt inaction
News, Published on 06/05/2013
» Thousands of people, including those adversely affected by state projects and landless farmers, were expected to rally in Bangkok today to call on the government to resolve their problems.
Gambling with Kampot's colonial charm
Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 05/05/2013
» Hidden in the clouds on a mountain overlooking the provincial capital of Kampot in Cambodia's south sits a relic of a long-gone French colonial era. For decades a Catholic church, possibly the oldest in the country, remained abandoned here as wars were waged for decades on the flat lands below.