The Nation

The World Bank will support Thailand’s business sector since the government has conducted bureaucratic reforms to facilitate businesses.The World Bank’s Doing Business Research Team met with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha at Government House on Friday. He expressed his appreciation for the bank’s 27th place ranking ...

Health authorities will provide free influenza shots for some 9.6 million children from next year under a Bt1-billion proposal that will soon be submitted to the National Vaccine Committee for approval. The vaccines will cover children from Prathom 1 to Mathayom 6.Keep reading ...

Academics put down the authorities’ failure to control this year’s smog crisis in the North to an inappropriate “command-and-control approach”, adding that this problem will persist if the strategy is not revised.Keep reading ...

With a budget of Bt1.28 billion, the Ministry of Industry’s Department of Industrial Promotion (DIP) aims to generate a business value of Bt13 billion in 2019 through bringing traditional small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) onto e-commerce platforms and boosting the country’s startup ecosystem through Thailand ...

Economic growth is expected to take a heavy hit due to the rising number of the elderly and the country urgently needs to tackle it by cutting in half the number of military personnel, increasing the number of foreign labourers and employing increased automation in ...

Financial technology (fintech) has taken the lead in Thailand’s digital transformation process, to be followed by e-commerce in the next five years, said Pete Chemsripong, general manager of ThoughtWorks (Thailand), a global tech-consulting firm.Keep reading ...

Animal-rights activists are up in arms over the Commerce Ministry’s plan to legalise the export of live domesticated elephants, saying the elephants could be harmed during transportation abroad – and wild elephants would likely pay a price too.Keep reading ...

Massive and aged corals have started to bleach off the coast of Rayong in the Gulf of Thailand.Thon Thamrongnawasawat, assistant dean of the Faculty of Fisheries at Kasetsart University and a marine biologist, described the change as an “emergency situation”.Keep reading ...

IBM’s quantum ambassador, Robert Loredo, recently met staff at the National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec) to ask what the company could do to help Thailand solve problems through quantum computing and advise how the Kingdom could benefit from its quantum hub partner in ...

71-year-old Decha Siriphat has been licensed to practise traditional medicine, but he has a few more steps to go before he can begin giving his patients marijuana-based medication.The newly amended narcotics law and associated organic regulations have complicated procedures, say Decha and community-rights advocates. They ...