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Agriculture Ministry seeks Cabinet nod for Bt8.9-billion grass roots development plan
The Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry has prepared a grass roots economic development and promotion campaign, which will be presented to the Cabinet on Tuesday for approval under the fiscal year 2021 budget.Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Chalermchai Sri-on said on Monday (January 20) that “the campaign ...
The Nation Reporter
Bangkok City Hall suspends classes in 437 schools on Wednesday
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has suspended classes at 437 schools under its supervision for one day and introduced staggered working hours for all its officials from Wednesday, as airborne PM2.5 dust is forecast to remain excessive in most parts of the capital.City Hall spokesman ...
Value of food exports to increase 5.4% this year
The National Food Institute forecasts that the value of food exports this year will be US$34.9 billion (Bt1.05 trillion), up 5.4 per cent year on year, according to its president Anong Paijitprapapon.However, the value of exports will contract 0.3 per cent to Bt1.02 trillion if ...
The Nation Reporter
Farm community becomes healthy, wealthy and wise the organic way
Once a major maize plantation where farmers liberally doused farm chemicals to raise yields and reap as much as profit as they could, Ban Mai Village in Nan province has surprised many and become a role model for non-organic farming.The village at tambon Na Rai ...
Rarinthorn Petcharoen
Learning to live with the weather
Water management innovations and the resilience of local people have helped turn a flood-prone community in Rangsit’s Nong Sua district of Pathum Thani into a prototype multi-purpose water catchment area.However, severe drought presents a new challenge.Nine years ago, when the central region of Thailand was ...
Thana Boonlert
MEA enters joint venture to develop Smart Metro Grid
The Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) is embarking on a joint venture to install smart meters for some 33,000 households in a move to pilot the government’s smart city initiative.MEA governor Keerapat Jiamset said on Friday (January 17) that the authority had signed a memorandum of ...
The Nation Reporter
Bangkok water quality back to WHO-recommended levels, authority confirms
The Metropolitan Waterworks Authority (MWA) said the quality of tap water has returned to normal in Bangkok, Nonthaburi and Samut Prakarn provinces over the weekend.MWA governor Parinya Yasamit said on Saturday (January 18) that the quality of tap water in the metropolitan area had returned ...
The Nation Reporter
World Bank rings alarm on GDP view
The World Bank has warned that Thailand’s average annual economic growth will be stuck below 3% if there is no significant increase in investment and productivity growth.The recent growth slowdown suggests long-run structural constraints, with slowing investment and low productivity growth, according to the World ...
Somruedi Banchongduang
City Hall exposes Nong Khaem dump corruption
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) on Friday filed criminal charges against its own waste management officials for letting garbage trucks from a neighbouring province dump waste at a city dump site.The illegal activities have been going on for five years and were costing the city ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Special economic zone eyed in South
The procurement of land for a special economic zone in the South will be proposed during a mobile cabinet meeting on Tuesday.Benjathip Choodum, Narathiwat’s director of strategic development and information, said the proposal for 12 projects in Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat will be presented to ...
Mongkol Bangprapa
