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Members to vote for new SSO board
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 23/10/2023
» The Social Security Office (SSO) has set aside a budget of 207 million baht for its first-ever Social Security Board members' election on Dec 24, according to its security general, Boonsong Thapchaiyuth.
Wage hike pledges slammed
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 01/05/2023
» As the country marks Labour Day on Monday, activists have expressed concerns over campaign promises made by parties to abruptly raise the minimum daily wages to levels they believe are unrealistic.
Raw deal for berry pickers
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 17/11/2022
» Thai workers who have travelled to Northern Europe to pick berries are calling on the government to step up efforts to address the problem of labour exploitation.
Panel chases aid for duped berry pickers
News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 13/10/2022
» The chairman of the House committee on Labour is speeding up coordination efforts with the Labour Ministry to provide financial aid of 30,000 baht for Thai berry pickers duped into working for a company in Finland in 2013.
MFP aims to abolish daily employment
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 09/09/2022
» The Move Forward Party (MFP)-led House committee on labour is proposing an amendment to the Labour Protection Act aimed at abolishing temporary and daily employment and upgrading the status of workers to help them make ends meet.
Cracking organised crime
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 21/03/2022
» For almost two weeks a search has continued for three suspects allegedly involved in the March 9 fatal shootout with police in Phatthalung -- an incident that will lead to stepped-up operations against gunmen for hire and influential figures.
Luang Prabang Dam a threat to World Heritage?
News, Philip Hirsch, Published on 29/06/2021
» The Lao government is intent on building a dam on the Mekong just upstream of the country’s old royal capital. Despite the project having undergone design work, environmental impact assessment and a prior consultation process managed by the Mekong River Commission (MRC), no heritage impact assessment has been carried out to date — despite requests by Unesco’s World Heritage Centre dating back as far as 2012 that the Lao government should do so. Ahead of next month’s World Heritage Committee meeting in China, of which Thailand is a current member, Unesco has asked that no construction work go ahead on the dam until a full heritage assessment has been completed.
Spilling beans on tea
News, Postbag, Published on 24/05/2021
» Re: "Unearth the true meaning of tea money", (PostScript, May 23).
Cops arrest nuns over B10m fraud
News, Pattanapong Sripiachai, Published on 29/04/2021
» NAKHON PHANOM: Three Buddhist nuns have been arrested and charged with running a pyramid scheme-like fund out of a meditation centre in Muang district, allegedly defrauding hundreds of investors out of 10 million baht.
Food supply to junta 'just logistics'
News, Wassana Nanuam and Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 21/03/2021
» The Third Army Region yesterday defended sending food supplies to Myanmar troops, saying it was part of an arrangement by the Township Border Committee (TBC).