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Global food trends linked to poor diets
News, Rosie Leishman, Published on 19/03/2025
» Thailand is succumbing to global food trends that negatively influence children's diets and lifestyles, say nutrition experts, suggesting the government take more action to secure healthy diets among the nation's youth.
NLA's cyber bill rush shows poor intent
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 04/03/2019
» The coup-installed National Legislative Assembly (NLA) last week approved the controversial cybersecurity bill, shrugging off public concerns over its threats to personal and corporate data privacy and human rights issues.
Costly justice is justice denied to poor
News, Nonarit Bisonyabut & Siranan Dechakupt, Published on 10/04/2019
» The greater the damage done, the easier the justice system should be to help the afflicted, right? Sorry, that's not how the Thai judicial system operates.
Free hostel boon for poor visiting relatives
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 12/02/2020
» Wat Ammarinthararam Worawihan, a temple next door to Siriraj Hospital, is once again offering free accommodation to poor people whose relatives are undergoing treatment at the hospital.
Poor left out while rich get priority
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 26/04/2021
» As Covid-19 hits the country hard, disparities between the rich and the underprivileged become glaring.
Shifting climate costs to the world's poor
Oped, Bjorn Lomborg, Published on 28/05/2021
» To tackle climate change, rich nations are promising to end fossil fuel use in 29 years. As this becomes excruciatingly costly, the G7 is now thinking about making the world's poor pay for it. That will go badly.
Student from poor family tops army exam
Gary Boyle, Published on 10/08/2021
» A teenage student from a poor family was the top performer in this year's admission examinations for the armed forces.
GSB launches cheap loans for the poor
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 23/03/2022
» Government Savings Bank (GSB) is launching a low-interest loan that does not require collateral, aiming to help low-income earners prop up their liquidity, says bank president Vitai Ratanakorn.
Cabinet okays B27.4bn subsidies to help poor
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 27/07/2022
» The cabinet on Tuesday approved additional economic assistance measures worth 27.4 billion baht, including an extension of the "Khon La Khrueng" co-payment scheme to help alleviate the hardship of people affected by higher costs of living amid high inflation.
Poor youth mental health is costing Thailand
Oped, Kyungsun Kim, Published on 30/08/2022
» I know children and adolescents to be incredibly resilient, as a mother of three and in my work with Unicef. But their mental health has seriously suffered from the grief, uncertainty, isolation and stress over the past years of Covid-19 and well before that. As recent tragic cases of youth suicide in Thailand show, without early detection and access to services and support, they are in fact very vulnerable.