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Not just a physical disease
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 29/04/2020
» A man from Narathiwat province who was due to be released from a Covid-19 quarantine facility jumped to his death from the fifth floor of a state hospital in Phra Pradaeng district of Samut Prakan province last month. Days before, in the province of Chiang Mai, another Thai male cut short his life in the same manner after learning that he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
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Study links virus fallout to suicides
News, Post Reporters, Published on 25/04/2020
» Scholars are urging the government to review virus lockdown measures and make its financial relief scheme more inclusive by claiming that job losses and business closures are spurring suicide cases.
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Draft charter caters to all voices, CDC insists
News, Published on 22/08/2015
» The Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) insists the new charter is designed to cater to the needs of all stakeholders across the political spectrum.
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Harsh laws on public gatherings a blow to democracy
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 04/05/2015
» Bye-bye democracy. Farewell to freedom of expression through public gatherings.
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Govt controls rice price, small farmer businesses fail
Jon Fernquest, Published on 20/03/2013
» As govt becomes only buyer of rice, local farmer groups producing high quality rice products forced out of business.
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Victims to pledging
News, Published on 19/03/2013
» There is no doubt about it. The rice pledging policy is overwhelmingly popular with rice farmers. Why shouldn't it be? The paddy price offered by the Thai Rice Association is only 10,500 baht a tonne when the price offered by the government is 15,000 baht. The market paddy price for Hom Mali jasmine rice is 15,000 a tonne while it is 20,000 baht from the government.
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Wage boost is far from a cure-all
News, Published on 25/01/2013
» From the Thaksin Shinawatra government to the one led by his sister, Yingluck, the 300-baht minimum wage policy is probably the populist policy that most responds to the way of life of people in the lower rungs of society, especially the rural poor.
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P-move calls on government to fulfil policy pledges
News, Published on 03/10/2012
» The Assembly of the Poor was certainly the biggest and most influential farmers' movement that emerged after 1973, a landmark year that opened up politics with the student uprising. Although the assembly is now no more, its offshoot P-move is still carrying on its unfinished work to improve the rights of the downtrodden.
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