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Abhisit-Chaturon: Bracing for political tumult
Nattaya Chetchotiros, Published on 03/01/2018
» Concerns are rife whether the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) will abide by the roadmap to election this year after it issued an order requiring party members to confirm their membership and pay fees by May.
Australia to permit medicinal cannabis exports in growing market
Reuters, Published on 04/01/2018
» SYDNEY: Australia said Thursday it planned to become the fourth country in the world to legalise medicinal marijuana exports in a bid to score a piece of the estimated $55 billion (1.8 trillion baht) global market.
Blizzard pounds US Northeast
Reuters, Published on 04/01/2018
» CHARLESTON, South Carolina/BOSTON: Heavy snow and high winds pounded the US East Coast along a front stretching from Maine as far south as North Carolina early on Thursday, knocking out power, icing over roadways and closing hundreds of schools.
Ministry backs down on phone charging ban
Online Reporters, Published on 06/01/2018
» The Public Health Ministry will review the announcement prohibiting its staff from using office supplies and assets, including a ban on mobile phone charging.
Ministry gives in on charging ban
News, Post Reporters, Published on 08/01/2018
» The Public Health Ministry has decided not to prohibit staff from using office supplies and assets, or ban the charging of mobile phones.
Public health budget hike of 13% sought
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 09/01/2018
» The rising cost of medicine and hospital visits has prompted the Ministry of Public Health to propose a public health-care budget of 193 billion baht, up 13% from its present level.
Only the poor end up dying screaming
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/01/2018
» If you had a million dollars to spend (but not on yourself), where would it do the most good? Well, the cost to cover morphine or a morphine-equivalent pain relief treatment for all the sick children younger than 15 years who are in really serious pain in low-income countries would be just $1 million (33.4 million baht) per year. About half of them of those children are going to die, but with morphine at least they wouldn't die screaming.
Kids looking more to self-employment as adults
Online Reporters, Published on 12/01/2018
» Self-employment was the preferred choice of career for the largest group of the young people surveyed on the eve of Children’s Day on Saturday, while a similar percentage of parents would prefer their children became civil servants.
Goalie Kawin vows to fight for a place in first team in Belgium
Sports, Tor Chittinand, Published on 13/01/2018
» Thailand's top-rated goalkeeper Kawin Thamsatchanan flew to Brussels late on Thursday night to join Belgium's second division side Oud-Heverlee Leuven (OHL) after the team's Thai owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha swooped him up in a deal with SCG Muang Thong United.
E-wallets and the need for speed
Business, Pitsinee Jitpleecheep, Published on 15/01/2018
» As in many markets around the globe, retailers and restaurant chains in Thailand are facing a rapidly changing business landscape. Technology has altered consumer behaviour, making people less patient and more open to online shopping and dining.