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Local sugar industry outlook neutral
Business, Published on 14/11/2019
» Tris Rating maintains a neutral outlook for the sugar industry in Thailand. We believe the sugar oversupply will persist, pressuring prices, but will lessen slightly in the coming year as supplies from major producing countries decline because of dry weather.
The trade war could be fuelling the Amazon fires
News, David Fickling, Published on 26/08/2019
» The fires currently consuming Brazil's Amazon rainforest seem a world away from the tense diplomacy in the US trade war with China. In truth, they're more closely connected than you might suspect.
Enforcement first
News, Postbag, Published on 03/08/2019
» Re: "Need for speed will not help solve gridlock", (Opinion, Aug 2).
Firefighters mobilised to battle huge swamp blaze
News, Post Reporters, Published on 02/08/2019
» The National Resources and Environment Ministry has ordered firefighters from national parks across Thailand to help battle a huge fire raging through the Kuan Kreng peat swamp forest, which is rapidly drying up, in Nakhon Si Thammarat.
King Rama IX's water legacy lives on
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 13/10/2018
» Many royal initiative projects created by King Bhumibol Adulyadej involved water management, especially in remote areas where farmers lived in poverty due to shortages of water for agriculture.
NESDC's new 'driver' details approach to progress
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 30/07/2019
» The prestigious state planning unit the Office of the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) has undergone a major revamp since late last year, including being renamed from the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB).
Climate change urgency grows
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 01/07/2019
» Climate change is global in nature but it is having an especially severe impact on Asia. Chennai, one of India's largest cities, has run out of water as the summer heat intensifies. With monsoon rains below average, four lakes in the city of 4.7 million have dried up. Residents don't have enough water to drink, bathe or wash clothes, malls have closed their washrooms and restaurants are not open for customers.
Single and stronger
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 17/06/2019
» Mohini Devi lived her dream last month when she watched her niece Shanti Devi perform all the rituals in the marriage of her son Inder Singh.
The end is nigh
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 28/03/2019
» It has been determined that we've been around for 4.5 billion years, Earth the only habitable planet in the solar system.
High prices, strong baht cause rice export drop
Business, Published on 30/03/2019
» Thai rice exports declined in both volume and value in February, with blame falling on high prices relative to competitors, notably Vietnam, as well as the strong baht.