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The cabinet will next Tuesday deliberate a shortened bill on legalising marijuana for medical use.  The new version of the bill was proposed yesterday, and supporters reckon it will become law as early as next month.  “This bill will only have 17 Articles,” Deputy Prime ...

The government has moved to allay fears that time is running out before next February’s general election to enact new legislation that protects the rights of same-sex partners.The Life Partnership bill will be before the cabinet by the end of the month, said Kerdchoke Kasamwongjit, ...

Disruptive technologies are going to bring down Thai universities’ rankings – no matter how well regarded they are now – unless they adjust quickly and efficiently, Deputy Education Minister Udom Kachintorn has warned.  “For one thing, Thailand’s birth rate has fallen drastically,” Udom said at ...

Thailand’s higher-education sector is shifting gears towards the future – setting sights on new engines of growth as well as the much-vaunted Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).“We will have to prepare courses that respond to the development of target industries in the EEC,” Office of Higher ...

The risk of water scarcity is looming in the East, thanks mainly to a boom in industrial development in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). Experts have been expressing concerns that the rising demand for water in the three EEC provinces – Chon Buri, Rayong and ...

Myanmar migrant in Samut Sakhon’s Mahachai district are living in terror that they may become a target of police extortion.Ko Ko Naing, a Myanmar national working for the Labour Rights Promotion Network Foundation (LPN), recounted that he himself nearly landed in jail once when police ...

Thailand is hoping to recover 60 looted Thai artifacts from overseas, the Culture Ministry announced yesterday (Oct 31).“The ministry’s ad hoc committee has called for the repatriation of dozens of artifacts that originated in Thailand from leading US museums and a UK museum,” Culture Minister ...

Natural Resources and Environment Minister General Surasak Karnjanarat told reporters yesterday (Oct 30) that the Land Department was in the process of revoking the land-rights documents for privately owned plots in Phetchabun that are encroaching on forestland. Keep reading ...

Health activists are threatening to rally outside Government House if a new bill – seen as a risk to the heart of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) operations – is pushed through.They have also given an ultimatum, saying Public Health Minister Dr Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn ...

Expert and social entrepreneurs have placed high hopes on benefiting from the advanced blockchain technology that would be able to play a major role in curbing corruption and enhancing transparency in social justice.“Blockchain could be used to promote transparency of information for anti-corruption and to ...