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Since the forced closure of countries’ borders due to COVID-19, manufacturers sourcing ingredients and materials from foreign countries have been seeking local suppliers despite higher prices, so as to secure production, a trend that will most probably continue even after the pandemic.Keep watching ...

Following Thursday’s broad-daylight abduction of an exiled Thai political activist in Cambodia, both country’s police forces have bluntly refused to investigate, prompting calls by critics and human rights groups, including US-based Human Rights Watch, for swift action. Human rights defender Angkhana Neelapaijit warns that Thai ...

The government should include 24 million informal workers in its 400 billion baht economic recovery plan for alleviating the economic impact of Covid-19, a recent seminar was told.Conducted online, the seminar on the impact of Covid-19 on informal workers was organised by Wichaya Komin, a ...

The Ministry of Transport has allowed all public transport, such as buses, trains and planes to resume to meet the people’s demand for travel, except to some provinces that had not ended the lockdown measures.Anon Luangboriboon, the ministry’s deputy permanent secretary, said that the move ...

Thailand: Momentum is building behind Thailand’s push to create its own coronavirus vaccine, with more manpower and resources dedicated to the effort amid hopes it could boost medical tourism.Thai trials of an experimental vaccine using monkeys started last month, one of at least 100 potential ...

Health experts warn that Thailand is vulnerable to a second wave of COVID-19 infections due to neglect of the country’s massive migrant labor sector. Migrant workers often live in squalid, cramped conditions without adequate sanitation and poor access to medical care.Keep reading ...

The Bank of Thailand (BOT) is concerned about a swift baht appreciation in the past two weeks and promised to impose extra measures to address short-term inflows just as the currency rose again today (June 1).Deputy governor Mathee Supapongse said today that the baht has ...

The Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO) has announced progress in the development of three Thai Covid-19 vaccines, with results expected by the end of 2020 and a plant in Saraburi standing ready to begin manufacturing the successful candidate.GPO director general Dr Witoon Danwiboon on Monday (June ...

Thailand’s parliament approved on Sunday (May 31) a near-US$60 billion stimulus package, the kingdom’s biggest-ever cash injection, to revive an economy that has been hammered by the coronavirus.The 1.9 trillion baht (US$59.7 billion) package would be a much-needed boost for Southeast Asia’s second-biggest economy, expected ...

Whilst international travel has been placed on hold during the Covid-19 pandemic, the world’s wildlife has been able to flourish in both land and seas with the absence of mass tourism.Thailand’s natural resources are some of the most beautiful and famed in the world, with ...