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Steel supplier in invoice strife
News, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 05/04/2025
» The Revenue Department has filed a criminal complaint against Xin Ke Yuan Steel Co, which supplied steel for the construction of the State Audit Office (SAO) building before its collapse, for fabricating more than 7,000 invoices worth over 200 million baht.
Radioactive waste probed
News, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 26/03/2025
» The Ministry of Industry has launched a probe into the illegal import of around 10,262 tonnes of powdery waste containing radioactive caesium-137, with documents falsely declaring the material to be zinc concentrate.
The danger of talking down immigration in Oz
News, Daniel Moss, Published on 11/01/2024
» Pre-pandemic Australia looks like hallowed ground that the contemporary economy will struggle to surpass. For local officials who aspire to take a crack at emulating a celebrated decades-long expansion, it's important not to downgrade a vital component that's become radioactive: immigration. The country's politicians are showing a worrying lapse in memory.
Bad air, caves and elephants
News, Pinya Wipatayotin and Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 30/12/2023
» Environmental beat yielded some very diverse stories in 2023.
Japanese seafood tests reveal its 'safe to eat'
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 26/09/2023
» Test samples of seafood imported from Japan have so far revealed no traces of radioactivity beyond international standards, and consumers can rest assured that the food is safe to eat, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Fears over Fukushima seafood rise
News, Post Reporters, Published on 28/08/2023
» The Thailand Consumers Council (TCC) is urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Fisheries to tighten measures on imported seafood from Japan after several countries banned the products following the release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Fukushima fish still safe to eat: govt
News, Post Reporters, Published on 27/08/2023
» The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is maintaining a wait and see stance after Japan's release of wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Aug 24, according to FDA deputy secretary-general Lertchai Lertvut.
Fukushima plan rejection is mired in anti-science
News, Gearoid Reidy, Published on 21/07/2023
» Hong Kong is so opposed to Japan's plan to release treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant that it's banning seafood products -- from four of the country's landlocked prefectures. That sounds a bit off, yes?
Lack of plan for radioactive dust worries experts
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 05/04/2023
» A pile of furnace dust, believed to be contaminated with caesium-137 from a radioactive rod that went missing from a power plant in Prachin Buri a few weeks ago, is still being kept at the steel smelter where it was found.
Locals urge action over caesium saga
News, Manit Sanubboon, Published on 28/03/2023
» A group representing Prachin Buri's residents have formally lodged a complaint with the parliamentary Committee on Land, Natural Resources and the Environment over the disappearance of a caesium-137 cylinder from a power plant in the province.