Social development

Activists question regional grouping’s aspiration to be people-centred; interface likely in November.Asean civil groups and representatives of people’s organisations will once again be denied an interface meeting with leaders during the 34th summit in Bangkok this weekend, as they failed to convene a parallel meeting, ...

The Department of Mental Health’s new panel will come up with guidelines on the use of marijuana for medical purposes and a recommendation on its use in treating psychiatric patients, which will be proposed to the Public Health Ministry’s Narcotics Control Committee, a senior official ...

Foreigners can conveniently now access international-standard healthcare services from the newly established Foreign Customer Service Centres (FCSC) at 133 centres and general hospitals nationwide.Keep reading ...

Persistently discounted as gullible, desperate, and unsophisticated, the 22 million inhabitants of Isaan–about a third of the country’s population–have long borne the brunt of bias from Thailand’s urban middle class.A new study by the Asia Foundation sets out to investigate if these biases hold any ...

The Thailand Education Partnership (TEP) has launched a platform for all sectors to share their ideas on education development in the country to adapt to global changes.Keep watching ...

In the next 12 years, the healthcare industry will face major demographic changes that would dramatically impact which services are needed and how they are delivered.As millennials, Generation X, and baby boomers will enter new life stages at the same time, there will be simultaneous ...

The Department of Disease Control has asked related agencies to monitor Chikungunya infections after 14 students and teachers from Singapore contracted the illness after visiting Ratchaburi province.Keep watching ...

Thailand has set its sight on becoming Asean’s genomic-medicine leader within five years. “We have already secured a budget of Bt4.47 billion for the five-year Integrated Genomics Thailand Plan,” Public Health Minister Dr Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn revealed on Friday.  Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of biology ...

For decades, the ethnically and linguistically diverse people of Isan, Thailand, have been the subject of pervasive bias, often described as docile and uneducated, or as “unsophisticated peasants” who can be bought and manipulated by ambitious politicians. Bordered by Laos and the Mekong River to ...

Although Thailand is still lagging behind other countries in developing cannabis-based medication, Thai medical researchers hope frozen knowledge could be renewed and extended to serve patients’ needs, especially in the field of traditional medicine.Keep reading ...