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.
Category: Thailand
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.
Thailand to File Complaint over China’s Dams in Mekong River Communities
Thailand’s water-resources chief responds to local farmers complained that dams in China were choking the waterway on which millions depend for their livelihoods.
Provinces ordered to ‘dig for water’
All 76 provinces across the country have been ordered to begin digging for water as part of urgent state measures to fight a drought which has already parched 18 provinces.