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Thailand ranks world’s 23rd most polluted country
Thailand has been ranked the world’s 23rd most polluted country and Bangkok ranks 24th in the list of cities with critical air quality globally, according to the 2018 World Air Quality Report. The report shows that PM2.5 dust particles for the whole year in Thailand ...
Thailand to ban import of plastic waste next year
Thailand’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will propose to the cabinet a total ban on the import of plastic waste into Thailand beginning next year.Natural Resources and Environment Minister Gen Surasak Karnjanarat said today that, as imports of plastic waste are to end next ...
Greenpeace Thailand says Bangkok among cities with worst air quality
Bangkok is placed at the 9th spot of the world’s top 10 cities with the worst air quality, Greenpeace Thailand said today quoting US air quality index (AQI)On top of the list is New Delhi with 309 on US AQI, Dhaka in Bangladesh with 293, ...
More loans planned for One Million Housing Units project
The Finance Ministry has ordered the Government Housing Bank to increase the limit of housing loans initially set at 50 billion baht for the One Million Housing Units project after it was over-applied.Keep reading ...
Prayut says EC will decide whether to allow foreign observers to monitor election
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha made clear today that the Election Commission will be the sole authority to decide whether or not to allow foreign observers to monitor the forthcoming election tentatively scheduled for February 14.However, Gen Prayut insisted that Thailand must solve its own internal ...
Vegetables and fruits in student lunches heavily contaminated with toxic chemicals
Vegetables and fruits found in lunches for students under the government-sponsored lunch programme are almost 100 percent contaminated with pesticides and 99 percent of the urine samples from students and teachers in four provinces were tested with organophosphate, a deadly toxic pesticide that attacks nervous ...
University staff members declare support for anti-graft agency
As university council members are threatening an en masse resignation to protest against the National Anti-Corruption Commission’s requirement for them to declare their assets and those of their spouses and children, university staff members and general affairs officials are lining up in its support.Keep reading ...
NLA to debate on marijuana bill on Friday
The National Legislative Assembly is due to debate Friday (Nov, 23) on the amendments to the Narcotics Act to pave the way for the use of marijuana extracts for medical purpose, said Somchai Sawaengkarn, secretary of the parliamentary affairs extraordinary committee.Keep reading ...
EU delegation to Thailand issues clarification on poll observers
The European Union on Sunday (Nov, 11) offered a clarification over a media report that it has asked to send an army of observers to monitor the upcoming general election expected in February next year.It said in a clarification that the EU has not received ...
PM Prayut vows to push for greater ASEAN connectivity
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha today pledged to push for greater connectivity to strengthen business and investments in ASEAN when Thailand assumes the chairmanship of the regional grouping next year.Speaking at the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit in Singapore, Gen Prayut said as chairman of ASEAN ...
