Sustainable Development Goals
Under a changing sky
Climate change has caused much concern this century, but Thailand is joining the fight against rising temperatures by promising to take action on cutting down greenhouse gas emissions.Keep reading ...
Pradit Phulsarikil
Low farm prices slow fight against poverty
The World Bank has expressed its concern over the high number of Thai people living below the poverty line. It says the low price of farm products is partly to blame for the slowing number of poor people. Poverty has been on the decline in ...
Wichit Chaitrong
Agencies offer scheme to ease poverty
The Office of National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB), the National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (NECTEC), the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) and the Ministry of Science and Technologies have joined up to help alleviate poverty in Thailand. Keep reading ...
Jirapan Boonnoon
Forbes sets stage for 2018 conference
Companies and societies that learn to navigate through technological changes can grasp potential opportunities, while those that are slower will be left behind.Thailand is on the verge of transforming itself with a national policy that emphasises innovative, technology-based manufacturing and services. Keep reading ...
Tanyatorn Tongwaranan
Decision on CPTPP by year-end
Thailand will decide by the end of the year its readiness to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Transpacific Partnership (CPTPP).“We want to finish all the CPTPP entry assessments by the end of this year”, Auramon Supthaweethum, who took over as director-general of the ...
Phuwit Limviphuwat
Principle of voluntary cooperation not helping tackle climate change
“Building on the progress made so far, countries now need to take a decisive step forward in preparing the ambitious and balanced outcome that we need in Katowice [Poland],” executive secretary of UN Climate Change, Patricia Espinosa, said at a press conference in Bangkok on ...
Piyaporn Wongruang
‘Climate change a global health risk’
Climate change is causing serious health threats and is capable of triggering a deadly global pandemic, doctors have warned. Preventive healthcare promotion, strengthening of the health system and stabilising the rising global temperature were urgently required to mitigate the impacts of climate change on health ...
Pratch Rujivanarom
‘Add food security to Bangkok climate talks’
The Climate Justice group has called on international delegates to add food-security assurance to the agenda in climate-change negotiations, because they say it is not just extreme weather, but also improper climate-change solutions that are jeopardising global food stocks.Keep reading ...
Pratch Rujivanarom
Climate push comes to Bangkok
Though Thailand has made impressive progress on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, it still faces many challenges and the large implementation gap on the global scale remains to be solved. These facts have surfaced as Bangkok prepares to host the United Nations Framework Convention on ...
Pratch Rujivanarom
Sinking Bangkok Among Cities To Be Hardest Hit By Climate Change
As Bangkok prepares to host climate change talks, the Global Warming and Climate Change Conference from October 4-5, experts once again remind that unchecked urbanisation and eroding shorelines will leave the city itself and its residents in a critical situation in the not so distant ...