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Academics have called for the scope of the Plant Varieties Protection Act to be expanded to also protect farmers.Addressing a public seminar at BioThai Foundation, they said that unless the Act was drafted properly to protect farmers’ rights, the country’s agricultural sector would be taken ...

Thailand is more aware than ever of the threat posed by plastic waste to the ecosystem and environment, especially trash in the oceans. As seen on the news, marine life is ingesting plastic waste and suffering immeasurably.Other countries are also hurting from the deluge of ...

A group of Chinese investors has poured in close to 10 billion baht to develop a new city in Thmada, a border village in Veal Veng district in Cambodia’s Pursat province — a project which, upon completion, is expected to change the dynamics of trade ...

The Department of Disease Control is encouraging members of the public to get free HIV/Aids tests from state-run hospitals, after it found that at least 28,000 Thais are unaware that they have contracted the disease.Keep reading ...

Thailand and Laos have sealed an agreement to upgrade a road and build a rail extension worth over 3 billion baht to boost cross-border economic cooperation, according to the Neighbouring Countries Economic Development Cooperation Agency (Neda).Keep reading ...

The Thai government has been undertaking various measures to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing by enforcing laws in accordance with international standards. However, some new fishing regulations affect local fishermen, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives is sending out officials to follow ...

Police plan to introduce the “Pattaya Model”, a new set of crime prevention measures, in other provinces popular with tourists after success in finding a number of criminal suspects in this beach resort city.The results of the crime prevention model has encouraged the Tourist Police ...

The 34th Asean Summit culminated last week with the ratification of two green initiatives that should bode well for the future of the planet.The Bangkok Declaration on Combating Marine Debris and the Asean Framework of Action on Marine Debris aim to strengthen regional cooperation to ...

While 42 seafood processing companies have joined a campaign to ensure fair wages, a lack of rights to access basic education for 200,000 children living with migrant workers, including the fishery sector, is still a big problem, according to Plan International Thailand.Keep reading ...

Trying to find a few good numbers amid the bad we thought we’d look forward three years to some of the world’s major currencies and their projected performance against the Thai Baht. Of course, these are just predictions, according to longforecast.comKeep reading ...