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Can new Senate escape old stigma?
Published on 10/03/2024
» With the term of the current set of 250 appointed senators set to end in May, political pundits and politicians are hoping that the election of a new 200-member Upper House will bring a breath of fresh air to Thai politics.
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Sathit's twin challenge
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 06/03/2022
» Democrat veteran Sathit Pitutecha is now wearing two hats, one as deputy public health minister and the other as chair of the parliamentary panel scrutinising two organic laws related to the new election system.
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Broad support for loan
News, Published on 30/05/2021
» The government is prepared to take on more debt in its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, issuing an executive decree allowing the Finance Ministry to borrow an additional 500 billion baht up until September next year to protect public health and revitalise the economy.
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All quiet on the southern front?
Spectrum, Maluding Deeto, Published on 08/04/2018
» Positioned as a pilot province under the government's "triangle economy city model" in the far South, Yala's Betong district has recently been delisted from the region's severe emergency areas to pave the way for the scheme, which is aimed at bolstering the local economy and enhancing residents' livelihood.
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Virus crisis fuels food delivery bonanza
News, Published on 02/04/2020
» With more and more Thais practising social distancing and staying at home during the Covid-19 pandemic, food delivery companies are seeing their business surge.
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New-wave urban farming
News, Published on 31/05/2020
» People continue to lose their jobs amid Covid-19, raising concerns about whether farmers and growers in the production chain can still get their supplies to market. Even if they can, the question also arises as to whether hard-up consumers can afford to buy them.
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Trashed land put to good use
News, Chinnawat Singha, Published on 25/04/2020
» Before Covid-19, a plot of land in the centre of Phitsanulok's Muang district had been left to waste. Despite its central location, people sometimes dumped garbage there, turning the prime plot into an eyesore.
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Detention centres stuck in past century
Spectrum, Published on 18/02/2018
» 'Thailand 4.0" is the military government's oft-heard catchphrase, but Thailand's immigration detention system is a relic from a previous century. The need for detention centre reform is not simply humanitarian, but economic, social and political.
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Bid to repel aquatic invaders
Spectrum, Published on 10/12/2017
» The arrival of alien fish in natural water sources, including rivers, canals and shrimp farms in Samut Songkhram and neighbouring provinces, is giving the Department of Fisheries a big headache.
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Breach of trust
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 25/09/2016
» On a sunny September day a year ago, a group of whale spotters was floating on a boat 15km off the Bangkok shoreline.
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