Category: Thailand
Farming Community Becomes Chemical Free in Northern Thailand
Once a major maize plantation in northern Thailand that used farm chemicals to raise yields has become chemical free. Community farmers in, Ban Mai Village in Nan province have surprised many and become a role model for non-organic farming.
Widespread sugarcane burning continues uninterrupted by local authorities
The flouting of an order banning the practice, in effect since last year, has prompted civic groups and media organizations protest the illegal practice which, they claim, is threatening people’s health.
First baby leatherback turtle hatches today in Phang-nga
In Thailand’s southern province of Phang-nga, officials were overjoyed Sunday when this year’s first baby leatherback turtle hatched and emerged from its nest onto the beach.
By 2100, Thailand’s population will have dropped by over 32% to 46 million with an increasingly aged society.
Thailand faces a host of interrelated challenges facing amidst dramatically changing demographics.
‘Land of Cats’ a biodiversity powerhouse – for now
A not little known landscape of mountains and jungles the size of Cambodia straddling Thailand and Myanmar contains one-fifth of the world’s cat species now are hanging on for survival.
Thailand’s grand welfare experiment
Despite a monthly allowance being paid to more than 14 million people across the country, the number of poor people in Thailand has increased by more than 1.3 million in 1 year.
Some solutions to Bangkok’s water crisis
Thailand can learn from the successful public campaign in Cape Town, South Africa to get their citizens to conserve water in the face of the city running out of water.