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PM pushes South plans
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 01/03/2024
» The government has vowed to develop and promote the three southernmost provinces into tourist attractions for global travellers and to ramp up investments across the deep South.
Opinions sought as Chana plan resumes
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 12/07/2022
» The government has insisted it is open to opinions from all stakeholders in the Chana industrial project in Songkhla, amid controversy over the cabinet's resolution to resume development.
PM touts electric car policy at COP26
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 01/11/2021
» Thailand has set a target of having 15 million electric vehicles (EVs) on the roads by 2035 as a part of the country's strategy to lower greenhouse gas emissions, according to government spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana.
Parade of ghouls
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 07/07/2018
» Much has been written about Thailand's mischievous phi ta khon "ghost" festival, which has been gaining traction overseas in recent years after people from neighbouring countries were invited to join its cast of ghoulish performers.
Southerners flock to Yala city pillar celebrations
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 03/06/2018
» The fanfare at an ongoing festival in the capital district of Yala province shows residents are ready to put aside their safety fears and simply have fun in the insurgency-plagued South.
Remote village makes its own destiny
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 07/01/2017
» Tourism sometimes can be a threat to remote and traditionally reserved villages. But a village in Ban Phamon in a mountain range in Chiang Mai's Doi Inthanon National Park knows not only how to cope with tourists, but has devised its own tourism management plan best suited to them and the visitors.
Bean there, done that
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 19/11/2016
» Many royally supported projects have brought with them prosperity and improved standards of living for those who in the process have learned to persevere, innovate and become entrepreneurial.
King's tree reaps harvest
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 07/11/2016
» Since the first coffee tree was planted by King Bhumibol Adulyadej more than four decades ago, the remote village of Pha Mon on the country's highest peak has been a self-reliant community with its own cultivated knowledge of tourism management.
Borwornsak: More choice please
Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 19/02/2016
» Voters should be given more choice of charters in the planned referendum, suggests Borwornsak Uwanno, head of the previous group of charter writers.
Hassawut to fight dismissal
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 05/10/2015
» Former Supreme Administrative Court president Hassawut Withitwiriyakul says he will today petition His Majesty the King over a decision by the Administrative Court's judicial commission to dismiss him from office.