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Local doctor to receive WHO award
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 09/02/2026
» Director of Umphang Hospital in Tak province, Worawit Tantiwattanasap, will receive the United Arab Emirates Health Foundation Prize 2026 in recognition of his humanitarian service and sustained efforts to expand healthcare access for vulnerable populations in remote border areas, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced.
PM directs security body to step up scam fight
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 04/12/2025
» Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has directed the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc) to intensify efforts to combat transnational crime and online scammers in 2026.
Govt urged to grant elderly stateless people citizenship
News, Post Reporters, Published on 07/10/2025
» The Hill Area and Community Development Foundation (HADF) is urging the government to expedite the granting of citizenship status to elderly stateless individuals, thereby improving their access to basic healthcare and state welfare schemes.
Probe sought into ID card 'extortion'
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 19/09/2025
» Two People's Party MPs, Wiroj Lakkhanaadisorn and Somdul Utcharoen, have petitioned the Department of Provincial Administration (DoPA) over allegations that villagers in Chiang Mai are being forced to pay tens of thousands of baht to obtain nationality and ID cards under a cabinet resolution.
'Delighted' PM hands out national ID cards to minority ethnic groups
News, Post Reporters, Published on 29/06/2025
» CHIANG RAI: Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has granted Thai national ID cards to 21 representatives of minority ethnic groups in the northern province as part of the government's policy to resolve issues of statelessness and ensure access to government welfare.
Govt to register 1m stateless individuals 'within two years'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 11/03/2025
» The government aims to register one million stateless individuals within two years as part of its policy to show good governance.
Hold Facebook accountable for scams, hoaxes
News, Dave Kendall, Published on 20/01/2025
» Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision to fire his fact-checking team has opened the floodgates to a deluge of scams, hate speech, propaganda and lies. I first discovered how the platform used by 3.2 billion people was being misused when I started sub-editing at the Post in 2017. Every news story about the plight of the Rohingya was followed -- in seconds -- by dozens of crude memes and copy-and-paste hate speech in comments demonising the stateless people as usurpers, animals and even cannibals. The campaign was later linked to propaganda farms run by Myanmar's Tatmadaw military.
Gold card healthcare rights for new Thais
News, Post Reporters, Published on 13/01/2025
» The National Health Security Office (NHSO) will offer universal healthcare benefits, or the gold card scheme, to at least 480,000 ethnic people to whom the government will grant Thai citizenship.
Myanmar man busted for juvenile porn
News, Post Reporters, Published on 10/01/2025
» A Myanmar worker has been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing two boys and distributing obscene video clips of the abuse in an online chat group.
UN report shows gender gaps
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 21/12/2024
» A United Nations working group has encouraged Thailand to strengthen legal protection mechanisms to safeguard women from all backgrounds, even though Thailand has shown progress in protecting the rights of women and girls.