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Land grabbers implicated in peat swamp blazes
The Crime Suppression Division (CSD) has launched an investigation into the burning of peat swamps in Nakhon Si Thammarat’s Chalerm Prakiat district with a land acquisition motive suspected to be behind the blazes.Keep reading ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Something Is Very Wrong on the Mekong River
The Mekong is reeling from the combined onslaught of climate change, sand-mining, and incessant damming of the river, which combined to help cause the worst drought recorded in over 100 years in July.Keep reading ...
Thailand eyes new status as Southeast Asia’s energy trading hub
Thailand is jump starting a decades-old plan to create a Southeast Asia electricity supergrid, and wants to be the power-trading hub at the centre of it.The nation is set to triple the amount of electricity from Laos that it resells to Malaysia, while encouraging infrastructure ...
Finance Ministry plans e-commerce tax next year
The Finance Ministry expects to introduce a value-added-tax on electronic businesses next year, aiming to collect between 3 billion to 4 billion baht a year, a ministry official said on Monday, tapping a boom in e-commerce in the country.Keep reading ...
Civil society to submit Cannabis Act to parliament
A network of civil society academics will submit the Medicinal Plants, Cannabis and Mitra-gyna Speciosa Act to Parliament in order to allow patients, traditional Thai medical practitioners and folk medicine practitioners to utilize marijuana for its medicinal properties. Although its legalized adoption is a government ...
RID addresses drought in Chao Phraya River basin
The Royal Irrigation Department (RID) has announced a plan to provide water for consumption for communities in the Chao Phraya River basin while affirming that the amount of water for agricultural activities in the area will be sufficient throughout the rainy season.Keep watching ...
New fund replacing LTFs starts to take shape
The Finance Ministry has agreed to launch a new tax-saving fund to replace long-term equity funds (LTFs), for which the tax incentive is due to expire at the end of this year.The initial details of the new fund bear resemblance to the Sustainable Equity Fund ...
Wichit Chantanusornsiri
Technology implementation in water management
Water management is a challenge that requires data integration by several agencies. The Office of National Water Resources (ONWR) has established an ICT strategy to advance national water management systematically, using digital technologies.Keep watching ...
Transport Min eyes AI to solve traffic jams
Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob instructed the Expressway Authority of Thailand (EXAT) to address traffic problems in front of toll booths to alleviate people’s travel problems. In the long run, the information will be linked with the Department of Land Transport and related agencies.Keep watching ...
Clear up cuts to 30-baht scheme
Confusion appears to reign supreme over the budget for the universal healthcare or 30-baht card scheme. Activists have complained that the Prayut Chan-o-cha government, which is about to go on a heavy spending spree on populist policies, is excluding sick people who depend on the ...
