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Smart food cart to aid gastronomic tourism
News, Onnucha Hutasingh, Published on 17/02/2020
» Researchers at the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NTSDA) have developed a smart food vending cart named the "Rak Lok Food Cart", in a bid to upgrade the reputation of Thai street food.
When in drought, bank on water
News, Onnucha Hutasingh, Published on 29/07/2020
» Yotsaphon Bunsinprasit, a 29-year-old man from Kamphaeng Phet's Lan Krabue district, became a full-time farmer two years ago when he took over a 16-rai plot of farmland inherited from his parents.
Remote care push proves prophetic
News, Onnucha Hutasingh, Published on 14/09/2020
» For years, the National Health Security Office -- the state body that oversees the 30-baht universal healthcare scheme -- has invested in telemedicine, visits to distant areas by healthcare workers and delivery networks for prescription medications for those unable to leave their homes, with little take-up.
Health office bids to improve life for disabled elderly
News, Onnucha Hutasingh, Published on 18/03/2018
» After suffering from various illnesses for about a decade, a 60-year-old bedridden woman has shown signs of recovery over the past two years thanks to carers deployed to visit her home regularly under a National Health Security Office (NHSO) programme.
A litany of wasteful state spending
News, Onnucha Hutasingh, Published on 14/05/2018
» Several state projects which have failed to materialise over the past three decades, initiated by a series of governments, have cost almost a hundred billion baht of taxpayers' money. Meanwhile, the fate of some projects now under way still hangs in the balance.
'Caution list' drama upsets Mae Ai locals
News, Onnucha Hutasingh, Published on 01/06/2018
» Residents in Mae Ai district are upset by a state agency bid to remove their names from a "caution list" in the civil registration database.
South pupils 'lack literacy' in Thai language
News, Onnucha Hutasingh, Published on 25/06/2018
» Pattani: Many students of private religious schools in the far South cannot read, speak or write Thai, a problem compounded by alleged misuse of state education subsidies, the Pattani special task force says.
Deep South from blasts to boom
News, Onnucha Hutasingh, Published on 14/07/2018
» Years of blasts and shootings may have shaken up the peace process in the far South but the flare-ups have done nothing to chisel away at the region's two most prized assets -- its natural resources and economic potential.
Smart ID cards ease patient stress
News, Onnucha Hutasingh, Published on 16/09/2018
» Chiang Mai: Smart ID cards are helping ease patient worries about their ability to meet the cost of treatment, especially if they cannot find ready cash to pay up front as they had to do in the past.
New roads, old culture
News, Onnucha Hutasingh, Published on 30/09/2018
» After a trip to Sanhe, an ancient city in eastern China, Vichit Prakobgosol, president of the Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA) urged the Thai government to take a look at the country's pedestrian streets -- popular tourist destinations in Thailand.