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Farmers have been the backbone of Thailand for centuries. From the past to the present, different technologies have been applied in all kinds of professions and industries in order to upgrade the usual standards. Today, the term “4.0” is widely used to attach or combine ...

Affluent, established business owners and merchants believing in good fortune and status brought by wildlife parts still largely drive demand for ivory and tiger parts in Thailand, and online platforms are playing an increasing role in their purchase.Keep reading ...

Thailand is taking the lead in creating a regional fund with its neighbors, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, to back infrastructure and other development projects and to lessen reliance on Chinese investment. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is expected to propose the idea to the leaders ...

The Lower Songkram River basin is the latest site in Thailand under the global spotlight as a crucial ecological resource, the WWF-Thailand said ahead of World Environment Day today (June 5).The river basin has been nominated as a wetland of international importance (RAMSAR), intended to ...

Contrary to the global trend, the movement of people across national borders within Southeast Asia has been increasing significantly over the past two decades. The continuing vitality of intra-regional migration is fueled by rapid economic development, demographic diversity and the mismatch in supply and demand ...

Increasing e-commerce transactions driven by rapidly changing consumer behaviour combined with the entry of giant e-commerce platforms through local partnerships has intensified competition among logistics and parcel delivery services, challenging existing players in the domestic market. Keep reading ...

The Commerce Ministry plans to seek the cabinet’s approval on a proposal to boost exports of crude palm oil to slash the surplus of palm oil in national stocks. At least 600,000 tonnes of palm oil surplus should be exported this year as the total national ...

The Department of Public Works and Town and Country Planning has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning, aimed at better managing water to avert disastrous floods. Keep reading ...

The Prime Minister is today (June 4) presiding over a meeting on water resources management at Government House from 9.00 am to 10.15 am. The meeting will go over the government’s achievements in water management, which include related plans in the national strategy, the establishment of ...

In January researchers identified the Mekong as one of ten rivers that collectively discharge 95 percent of the plastics strangling the world’s oceans. Also, the Mekong countries of China, Thailand, and Vietnam are among five countries in the world (Indonesia and the Philippines are the other two) that collectively dump ...