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Household debts rise, as consumers default on loans: NESDC
In the first quarter of this year, household debt nationwide stood at Bt13 trillion, rising by 6.3 percent and accounting for 78.7 per cent of the total GDP – the highest since the first quarter of 2017, the latest report on Thailand’s Social Situation and ...
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Subcommittee okays Bt99.6-billion budget for four water projects
The Subcommittee for Large and Important Projects has approved a budget of Bt99.65 billion for four water management projects after a meeting on Friday, Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Thammanat Prompao, who is also chairman of the subcommittee, said.Keep readfing ...
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PM orders analysis to tackle national poverty
Prime Minister Payuth Chan-o-cha has ordered related governing agencies to analyse poverty data in every province for an “on-point” solution plan, government spokesman Narumon Pinyosinwat said on Thursday.This sustainable poverty solution has to focus on four factors – access to basic needs, improvement in the ...
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About 77,000 people with HIV live in Bangkok
An estimated 77,500 people with HIV are living in Bangkok, with 1,190 of them contracting the virus this year, a deputy Bangkok governor said.Pol Lt Gen Sophon Phisutthiwong, deputy governor of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, unveiled the figures on Tuesday while chairing a meeting on ...
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Greenpeace proposes widespread collection fee to drive push against disposables
Greenpeace has proposed an indiscriminately-implemented collection fee as a means to eradicate single-use plastic bags and containers from disposal, as well as to establish an independent fund for rehabilitation of Thailand’s seas.The popular environmental group’s proposal comes on the heels of the deaths of two ...
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Measures needed for sea tragedy to lead to plastic clean-up
The sea tragedy of Marium, the beloved orphaned female baby dugong of Thailand that died from eating plastic, reveals the awkward truth about the serious threat of ocean debris.The orphaned dugong was found by marine biologists in April in southern Thailand.She became an internet star ...
Ornvipa Rumroy
Thailand: Building a Sustainable Future
Skyscrapers in Bangkok don’t hold the title of the country’s tallest building for long. Completed in 2016, King Power MahaNakhon held the record for a while, only to be replaced by the 70-floor Magnolias Waterfront Residences, which now stands the tallest. It’s a monument to ...
Agriculture price guarantees not very sustainable, warns academic
Though the government plans to spend Bt150 billion on agriculture price guarantees, this measure will not improve the quality of products or boost farmers’ quality of life, an academic warned.“The price guarantee cannot be applied to all products because they all take different times to ...
Somluck Srimalee
Growing disaster risks exceed Asia-Pacific’s capacity to respond
Latest UN report also warns Thais living in the northeast are vulnerable. The relentless sequence of natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific in the past two years was beyond what the region had previously experienced or was able to predict, and this is a ...
Wichit Chaitrong
Planned biorefinery first step to ‘Biopolis’
The National Science and Technology Development Agency will invest Bt3.4 billion in a pilot biorefinery in the Eastern Economic Corridor of Innovation (ECCi).The aim is to add value from biological research to industrial manufacturing and create innovative products, while raising Thailand’s as a hub for ...
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