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Nightclub fire deaths rise to 16
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 11/08/2022
» Another Mountain B pub fire victim has died in hospital, bringing the death toll to 16, the Chon Buri Provincial Public Health Office said yesterday.
Fruit of the organic bloom
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 07/12/2019
» Kittiwat Wasuratdechapong looks back at his chemically treated orange orchards, which left him in financial ruin, with despair.
Fish price hikes minimal despite stoppage
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 06/07/2015
» Chon Buri: Most consumers here have yet to feel the pinch of an ongoing strike by unauthorised fishing trawlers, saying the prices of their seafood purchases remain, more or less, the same.
Covid drives rise in city homeless
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 02/01/2022
» More people have ended up on the streets in Bangkok after businesses that employed them became stricken by the pandemic or took advantage of them for too long.
Migrant workers to return, but at a cost
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 14/09/2021
» Businesses will be permitted by the Labour Ministry to import migrant workers once again, but at a steep cost associated with Covid-19 surveillance.
Hit broadcasters of rape where it hurts
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 09/03/2021
» Fines do not stop TV producers from romanticising rape in soap operas but boycotts of products that generate vital advertising revenue might do the trick, says a women's rights group.
Delivery platforms face rights pressure
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 07/09/2020
» Calls have intensified for owners of app-based delivery platforms to offer welfare protection to those who make the delivery rounds, according to an online seminar.
Fresh bid to protect online consumers
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 28/06/2020
» A group of organisations has called for a centre to take charge of protecting online consumers as they faced no less risk of being scammed than customers in physical markets.
Backbone of migrant health care
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 24/04/2020
» Ranong and Samut Sakhon provinces have managed to keep Covid-19 infections at bay and credit for their impregnable defence is owed largely to village volunteer health workers.
Labour rights advocates call for debt relief
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 30/03/2020
» Labour rights advocates have called for a debt moratorium at financial institutions as another state measure to relieve the economic impact on informal workers caused by anti-Covid-19 measures.