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Commerce Minister Suphajee Suthumpun launched a campaign at Siam Paragon shopping mall and Siam Square Walking Street yesterday, urging Thai people to boycott pirated and “knock-off” goods by refusing to buy, use or support them.
The Chinese Embassy in Thailand has proposed a three-point strategy to increase cooperation in new energy, while urging the public not to generalise by attaching the epithet of illegal ‘grey’ capital operations to all Chinese investors.
The new Sadao border checkpoint was heavily congested today, prompting calls for digital immigration systems and the parallel operation of the old checkpoint to protect the local economy.
The Bank of Thailand (BoT) will not rush to raise interest rates or implement quantitative easing (QE), preferring instead to use an accommodative monetary policy, alongside targeted measures to support a fragile economy burdened by structural problems, according to the central bank chief.
The vulture project at Huai Kha Kheng Wildlife Sanctuary, in Thailand’s western forest complex, has an ambitious plan to return up to 4 red-headed vultures (Sarcogyps calvas) to the wild within the next three years.
Authorities have added 11 tilt and subsidence sensors to monitor buildings around the Wongwian Yai intersection, where emergency crews successfully removed a pedestrian bridge this morning.
Three former crew members of the Thai-flagged cargo ship MV Mayuree Naree have launched a multi-million baht civil lawsuit against the ship’s owner and affiliated companies, seeking compensation for severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), developed after the vessel was attacked in a high-risk conflict zone.
The Department of Special Investigation has sought warrants from the Criminal Court for the arrests of four more suspects linked to THAI cabin crew member’s drug case, three of whom are Laotian and one is Thai, according to DSI Director General Pol Maj Suriya Singhakamol.
Granting amnesty to individuals charged under Thailand’s royal defamation law, or Article 112 of the Penal Code, has become more difficult, despite the controversy over Thailand's latest bid to erase politically-driven offences from the past 20 years, according to experts.
Thai consumer confidence has improved for the first time in four months, driven by declining global oil prices and the government’s latest ‘Thai Chuay Thai Plus’ co-payment stimulus scheme, according to the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC).
Retired police major-general Chakrapong Wiwatwanich secured Senate approval last month to serve as a Constitutional Court judge, despite mounting questions over his qualifications.
The government plans to spend a tranche of the additional 400 billion baht public sector borrowing, authorised by an emergency decree, to support people who want to replace their traditional fossil fuel powered vehicles with electric vehicles and who want to install solar rooftops to cut their household electricity bills, according to PM’s Office Minister Paradorn Prissananantakul.
More than 400 state-run hospitals, particularly community-based hospitals, which are the frontline public health providers, are facing a serious shortage of funding. This may disrupt health services if the problem is not addressed quickly, according to Dr. Veerapun Suvannamai, deputy head of the Senate Public Health Committee.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto hosted former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his family at his private residence on Kertanegara Street in Jakarta on Wednesday evening.
A mathematics teacher, at a well-known primary school in Nakhon Pathom, is in police custody following his arrest yesterday on charges of sexual abuse of minors under the age of 15 and the discovery of large quantity of explicit images of his sexual activities with his underage victims.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and his Malaysian counterpart Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim jointly presided over the official opening of a road connecting the new Sadao customs checkpoint with Malaysia's Bukit Kayu Hitam post, pinning hopes on it becoming an economic gateway to reaching the annual border trade target of US$30-billion.
