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Dusit Zoo closes but memories live on
News, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 01/10/2018
» Throngs of animal lovers yesterday flocked to Dusit Zoo or Khao Din Wana to bid a final farewell to the country's first public zoological park.
Small schools to shut to 'solve' teacher shortage
News, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 29/09/2018
» The Office of the Basic Education Commission (Obec) has set a target to close half of all schools with less than 120 students and merge them with larger ones nearby within three years to improve the quality of education and to solve a teacher shortage.
After delays, Onesqa to begin evaluations
News, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 11/08/2018
» The Office for National Education Standards and Quality Assessment (Onesqa) kicked off its fourth round of quality evaluations on Friday after a two-year delay.
It's a tough lesson
News, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 29/07/2018
» Despite his 42,000 baht salary and extra allowances, each month Mr Namchoke, a 39-year-old teacher at a famous school in Bangkok who wants his real identity kept secret, has only 3,500 baht left to cover his personal expenses after his debts are paid.
Respite for teacher in loan saga
News, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 26/07/2018
» The Student Loan Fund (SLF) has deferred seizing the assets of a woman school director in Kamphaeng Phet province who acted as a guarantor for 60 students seeking loans after it learned that at least 21 of the students failed to repay their debts.
Football pitch turns into ghost town
News, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 10/07/2018
» For the past 16 days, the pitch at Mae Sai Football Club in Chiang Rai has been eerily quiet as students have been fixated on the gruelling rescue operation to extract 12 team members and their coach from the flooded Tham Luang cave.
World holds its breath as cave extraction resumes
Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 09/07/2018
» CHIANG RAI: The second day of the perilous extraction of 12 boys and their football coach trapped deep inside Tham Luang cave in Mae Sai district began at 11am Monday with an expanded team of divers. The scheduled time was advanced from Monday night to race against time.
Spirit of togetherness online
News, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 28/06/2018
» Thais have taken to social media to show sympathy for the relatives and rescue teams praying and searching for 12 young football players and their 26-year-old coach who have been trapped in a labyrinthine cave network in Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai since Saturday.
Conservation a victim of its own success
Spectrum, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 15/04/2018
» According to the National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department (DNP), there are between 3,500 and 4,000 wild elephants roaming the forests of Thailand and the number is expected to increase due to conservation efforts.
A place in the sun for all revellers
News, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 14/04/2018
» While many Thai revellers headed straight to get wet and wild in Bangkok's wettest areas like Khao San Road, Silom and RCA at the start of the three-day Songkran festival, hundreds of senior citizens who preferred a return to the holiday's quieter religious and familial traditions flocked to Lumpini Park to celebrate the Thai New Year in retro style.