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  • THAILAND

    Making peace with Covid

    News, Published on 31/12/2022

    » People should usher in the New Year free of concern about a severe new wave of the Covid-19 pandemic as the public is by now largely immune to the virus and life is slowly returning to usual, according to a virus expert.

  • THAILAND

    More than maid abuse

    News, Published on 04/09/2022

    » The maid-abuse scandal has revealed many layers of bureaucratic malaise which are perpetuated by a patronage system that eats away at meritocracy.

  • THAILAND

    Dope wars take shape

    News, Published on 28/08/2022

    » Cannabis may have been decriminalised but its use is far from liberalised as experts warn of potential problems with enforcing the laws connected to the plant and the cannabis policy being politicised.

  • THAILAND

    Songkhram River threat

    News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 16/04/2022

    » Development projects and agrochemicals are threatening the ecology of the Songkhram River -- the last free-flowing river in the Northeast and one of the country's few remaining freshwater biodiversity hotspots, although some species are already nothing but a memory.

  • THAILAND

    Poor communities take virus fight into own hands

    News, Published on 04/05/2021

    » The air is thick with fear of contagion in the slum of Klong Toey, where many people live eave-to-eave in its densely populated neighbourhoods.

  • THAILAND

    Patpong 'on its last legs'

    News, Published on 07/03/2021

    » The vivid lights of Patpong Road are slowly ebbing away as many bars and clubs cannot keep their heads above water. Many bars are taking their last gasps of air amid an economic slump caused by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic last year.

  • THAILAND

    School under scrutiny over student abuse allegations

    News, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 04/10/2020

    » The abuse of kindergarten students at the Sarasas Witaed Ratchaphruek private school in Nonthaburi's Pak Kret district is a clear wake-up call for all stakeholders to come up with better child-protection measures.

  • THAILAND

    Mask shortage 'baffling'

    News, Published on 15/03/2020

    » The prospect of the Covid-19 outbreak turning into a "Stage 3" full-blown epidemic in Thailand is deepening worries over the dire shortage of face masks.

  • THAILAND

    Farm community becomes healthy, wealthy and wise the organic way

    News, Rarinthorn Petcharoen, Published on 19/01/2020

    » NAN: Once a major maize plantation where farmers liberally doused farm chemicals to raise yields and reap as much as profit as they could, Ban Mai Village in Nan province has surprised many and become a role model for non-organic farming.

  • THAILAND

    Political indifference fuels air-pollution crisis

    News, Published on 24/11/2019

    » There is no way of putting it, say leading academics, other than that this government is ill-equipped to stop the air pollution crisis from spiralling out of control. Despite proclamations, like Natural Resources and Environment Minister Warawut Silpa-archa's goal to solve the PM2.5 problem by 2022, the policy-making culture seems to be blind to what nature is telling us. Instead, lawmakers downplay threats to human health, allowing conflicts of interest to overshadow meaningful advances toward solutions.

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