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Planting the seeds of self-reliance
News, Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 19/08/2025
» One fine morning, young students at Sahathanakhan Krungthep Border Patrol Police School in Sangkhla Buri district, Kanchanaburi, were fully absorbed in rice planting activities.
Struggles at the farm gate
News, Sitthipoj Kebuiassawin and Pakkawanpanumet Tanraksa, Published on 08/05/2025
» Farmers across Thailand are sounding the alarm as plunging prices for key crops push rural communities deeper into debt, prompting urgent calls for government intervention.
Trouble beneath the calm surface
News, Post Reporters, Published on 06/05/2025
» Under the scorching sun, the Kok River glimmers as it winds its way through the northern provinces of Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, before flowing into the Mekong River. Once a lifeline for local farms, fisheries, and tourism, the river is now a source of fear and uncertainty.
Grass always greener on model smart farm
News, Post Reporters, Published on 29/06/2022
» It's 10 o'clock in the morning and Prasert Laitim has just finished watering salad greens at Samart Organic Vegetable Farm on a one-rai plot in Pathum Thani's Lam Luk Ka district.
Low fruit and veg intake a concern
News, Post Reporters, Published on 27/07/2021
» Policymakers are urging the government to promote vegetable consumption as a way of curbing deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and childhood obesity, the incidences of which are increasing in the country.
Revolution is unlikely to succeed
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 26/10/2020
» As the anti-government protest drags on, we will witness what looks like a rerun of the months-long protest held about six years ago by the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) led by former Democrat Party secretary-general Suthep Thaugsuban to force the resignation of acting prime minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan and the Pheu Thai-led government.
Sowing seeds of healthy lifestyles
News, Apiradee Treerutkuarkul, Published on 01/02/2020
» It has been said that the secret to growing the right fruit rests with sowing the right seeds. This belief has galvanised a woman's quest for food security, which in turn has given birth to a unique movement.
The last prime minister of the United Kingdom
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/07/2019
» It has been suggested that Boris Johnson (who becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom this week) is what you would get if Donald Trump had been educated at Eton and Oxford. Maybe, although there is a great gulf between Mr Trump's bombastic self-promotion and Mr Johnson's self-deprecating, rather shambolic persona.
EU elections point to hectic Brexit agenda
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/05/2019
» The best way of describing what just happened in the European Union elections is to say that the choices are getting clearer -- and a lot of people are realising which side they are on.
Europe on brink of revolution as elections loom
News, George Soros, Published on 14/02/2019
» Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion, and the people of Europe need to wake up before it is too late. If they don't, the European Union will go the way of the Soviet Union in 1991. Neither our leaders nor ordinary citizens seem to understand that we are experiencing a revolutionary moment, that the range of possibilities is very broad, and that the eventual outcome is thus highly uncertain.