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Debt bailout warning
News, Editorial, Published on 25/11/2024
» The Paetongtarn government has announced a bold policy to address Thailand's mounting household debt crisis. The initiative includes a three-year suspension of interest payments for mortgages, vehicle loans and loans for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), among other items.
Campaigns urge public generosity
News, Kornchanok Raksaseri & Thana Boonlert, Published on 25/03/2020
» Many campaigns have been launched to raise funds to buy protective equipment for medical staff to help tackle Covid-19 and save lives.
Public lose the airwaves
News, Editorial, Published on 13/03/2018
» The junta is poised to "reset" the regulatory body that makes all the key decisions about radio, TV and mobile phones. Secret meetings of selectors have narrowed a field of 86 applicants down to 14 short-list candidates. From that final list, the National Legislative Assembly will soon vote on which seven are best qualified to sit on the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC). There will be winners but more importantly, there will be so many losers.
Waste of public money
News, Postbag, Published on 23/03/2018
» With the approval of a 150-billion-baht budget, the junta government plans for massive handouts to villages nationwide before the next election.
Scholar's rich public legacy
News, Editorial, Published on 01/11/2019
» The death of renowned economist Deunden Nikomborirak, who was killed by a falling tree at her home in Bangkok on Thursday, is a great loss not only for the research community but also for all consumers in Thailand.
SEC holding public hearing
Business, Pathom Sangwongwanich, Published on 14/02/2019
» The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is conducting a public hearing on revising regulations to set up mutual funds for provident funds that invest in fixed-income securities, with the aim of reducing tax evasion and promote savings.
Haze response fails public
News, Editorial, Published on 25/01/2020
» Desperate, recycled and ineffective. These are just some of the strong rebukes given to the government's response to the smog caused by ultra-fine PM2.5 dust particles that has been blanketing Bangkok and many provinces over the past month.
Public humiliation at Parliament
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 31/01/2020
» Visitors to Parliament on Friday witnessed a rare example of public humiliation on Friday when a former Palang Pracharath Party candidate prostrated himself before an opposition party leader in exchange for the latter dropping defamation charges against him.
Ask public over promenade
News, Editorial, Published on 06/04/2021
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has been praised for two urban public park projects. One, which opened last year, the "Phra Pokklao Skypark" -- the city's first skypark across the Chao Phraya River -- creatively transformed the deserted pillars of the decommissioned urban train structure into a leisure area.
Public needs antiviral meds
Oped, Editorial, Published on 01/05/2021
» Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Thais have been gripped by fear. For months, these worries -- which have been intensified during the kingdom's third wave of infections -- have been about the government's slow vaccination rollout. Now the public is getting more anxious, following concerns over a possible shortage of favipiravir, an important medicine used to treat Covid-19 patients with moderate to severe symptoms.