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Humidity gets boost in fight against haze
News, Post Reporters, Published on 02/03/2012
» Officials are using a new technique to boost air humidity as dry weather has put the brakes on attempts to make artificial rain to ease the choking haze in northern provinces.
Political prisoners added to compensation scheme
News, Published on 26/02/2012
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA : Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has given his assurance that each victim of the 2010 political unrest will receive the government's 7.5 million baht compensation package within three months.
Bringing hearts and Seoul to Thailand
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 26/02/2012
» When 54 South Korean teachers arrived in Thailand on Sept 28 last year, their culture shock was compounded by the flooding disaster under way then. Many of the teachers, here on a government sponsored exchange programme, saw their classes postponed and some were left to wonder just what they were doing here. Called "volunteer" teachers by the Thai government, they are in fact paid instructors on wages equivalent to those of Thai junior teachers _ around 10,000 baht a month.
Worried pomelo growers face losing orchards to water again
News, Published on 25/02/2012
» Many pomelo trees look green now, with white blossoms on their boughs. Orchard owners, however, know that, despite the signs of life, the trees are in poor health after being submerged so long during the floods.
Suphan Buri new 'monkey cheeks'
Online Reporters, Published on 24/02/2012
» Suphan Buri will retain floodwater on more than 400,000 rai of land in four districts, if needed to help manage future flooding, provincial deputy governor Supat Srisunthornpinit said on Friday.
Vicious attack severs ex-soldier's hopes
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 23/02/2012
» If it were not for the bomb blast that hit him four years ago, Mangkornthong Limprasertkul might have joined the Army Non-commissioned Officer School and become a young corporal.
Blanket of haze hits North
News, Published on 19/02/2012
» Transport to much of Tak on the western border with Myanmar has been disrupted by worsening haze.
The long road to mercy
Spectrum, Father Joe Maier, Published on 19/02/2012
» Seven, she favours that number. She's seven times seven years of age and has been "Mother Gung" to our HIV/Aids kids under seven for seven years now. It's been, she says, "a long journey, and I choose to stay".
Southern city braces for flood
Published on 15/01/2012
» Residents of Muang municipality in Nakhon Si Thammarat are preparing for flooding as water from the district of Lan Saka is expected to hit this evening, reports said.
Nod sought for long list of megaprojects
News, Post Reporters, Published on 14/01/2012
» A long list of infrastructure and development projects worth billions of baht is going on the agenda of the two-day mobile cabinet meeting being held in Chiang Mai starting today.