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Thailand, Iran sign MoU on cooperation in health system development

Thailand and Iran signed the first Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the cooperation in health system development and management.Thai Public Health Minister Dr Piyasakol Sakolsattayathorn and Iranian Health and Medical Education Minister Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi signed the MoU in Tehran.Keep reading ...

Food security report points to increasing malnourishment and obesity in Thailand

More than 815 million people around the world still suffer from malnutrition and hunger – 6.5 million in Thailand – but on the other hand 25 per cent of the population in developed countries were obese, including 5 million in Thailand, pointing to glaring inequalities ...

Challenges to gender equality in Thailand

Thailand’s formal commitment to women’s rights began in 1985 when it became a party to the key UN treaty on the subject: the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).The country’s record was vetted by the monitoring committee under the ...

Imminent shake-up of Thai higher education is inevitable

The new deputy education minister, Udom Kachinthorn, has handed universities a four-pronged directive, one of which is to address the country’s development goal of Thailand 4.0How that will be aligned with the second directive – to meet the demands of an ageing society – is ...

High stakes as regime considers rights

A pre-Chinese New Year present from the government was Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s proclamation of the government’s human rights agenda to complement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Thailand’s “4.0” target to become a more developed society.Keep reading ...

Vitit Muntarbhorn

Ministry of Public Health to include migrant labor in 10 special economic zones into the health system

Ministry of Public Health accelerates the introduction of Burmese, Laotian and Cambodian migrant workers and followers to the health system. Recently, the migrant workers purchased 1.5 million health insurance cards based on the Cabinet resolution by piloting in 10 provinces in the special economic zones.Keep ...

Ministry of Public Health develops international diseases control post in response to Mae Sot Special Economic Zone.

Ministry of Public Health develops international diseases control post in response to Mae Sot Special Economic Zone in order to provide quality according to international health rules particularly for enhancing personnel with effective English and Burmese communications, as well as quickly detecting the diseases. This ...

The National Human Rights Commission conducted field visit to Chiang Rai Special Economic Zone and found no progress.

At 9.00 AM on April 18, at the community hall of Thung Ngew in Satan sub-district of Chiang Khong district in Chiang Rai province, Mrs.Tuanjai Deted, Chairwomen of the Sub-Committee on Community Rights and Resources Base, along with relevant members and Mr. Harnnarong Yaowalert, President ...

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