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With few green spaces, Bangkok plants Asia's biggest rooftop farm
Bangkok’s Thammasat University, one of the oldest in Thailand, has a new claim to fame: Asia’s largest urban rooftop farm.The 7,000 sq mt (75,000 sq ft) space mimics rice terraces in northern Thailand and can help curb some of the impacts of climate change, such ...
Rina Chandran
Children of migrant labourers need govt assistance, says researcher
A Chulalongkorn University researcher has called for government measures to assist the children of migrant labourers.Premjai Vungsiripisal presented her work on the vulnerabilities of migrant children’s health situation at the National Conference on Migrant Health late last month, aiming to push for relevant policies or ...
The Nation Reporter
Unemployment inches higher
The unemployment rate in Thailand inched higher to 1.1% in November, up from 1% in the corresponding month last year, the Bank of Thailand reported on Tuesday.The number of unemployed increased by 60,200 from the previous year to 429,300 people and the number of employed ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
SSFs to register lower inflow
The amount invested in the recently approved Super Savings Funds (SSFs) could dwindle by half from the annual sums invested in long-term equity funds (LTFs) because of the significant reduction in tax privileges, says a capital market executive.SSFs is expected to see inflows worth around ...
Nuntawun Polkuamdee
School merger plans worry teachers, parents
The Education Ministry on Tuesday admitted that a proposed plan to merge 5,447 small-sized schools into larger ones over the next three years is worrying the many teachers and parents who will be affected.The mergers are part of the past government’s education reform package, have ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Smog returns to Bangkok
Smog returned to Bangkok with PM 2.5 dust exceeding safe levels at seven monitoring stations on Tuesday morning, up to 57 microgrammes per cubic metre of air.The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s environment office reported tha levels of particulate matter 2.5 microns or less in diameter (PM2.5) ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Ministry pushes community power project
Energy Minister Sontirat Sontijirawong today (December 9) outlined short-term measures to drive growth of the grassroot economy next year.A major item on the agenda is the establishment of community power plants totalling 1,000 megawatts in next three years, adding that details of the plan will ...
The Nation Reporter
No adverse impacts on businesses from minimum wage hike, says expert
An increase in the minimum wage by Bt5 to Bt6 will neither hike the cost liability for entrepreneurs nor increase inflation, Anusorn Tamajai, the director of the Economic and Business Research Centre for Reform at Rangsit University’s Institute of Economics, said yesterday (December 8).“An increase ...
The Nation Reporter
Govt accused of fixing agenda of meeting on palm price guarantee
A meeting to discuss the palm price guarantee scheme failed as the government had already fixed the agenda, Sittiporn Jariyapong, vice-chairman of the National Farmers Council, said.The guaranteed price was fixed at Bt4 per kilogram but the government has said it will compensate based on ...
The Nation Reporter
BOT mulls refinance programme for credit card debtors
The Bank of Thailand (BOT) is considering a refinance programme for credit card debtors with credible payment history, assistant governor of communications and corporate relations Chantavarn Sucharitakul said.“BOT has taken note of the problem faced by those credit card debtors’ during its Debt Clinic, and ...
The Nation Reporter
