Category: Thailand
Gold mining company found guilty for avoiding environmental report
Former director-general of the Department of Primary Industries and Mines guilty of colluding with five other parties for trying to avoid the mandatory environmental impact assessment.
From barren to bountiful
Princess Mother’s passion for helping the poor pays off years later as royal initiatives transform bare mountains into productive land, and give drug farmers another chance.
Meet Thailand’s secret weapon in climate change battle
Flooding and droughts could ravage the city, leaving as much as 40% submerged in the next decade.
New push to shut down rubber factories in Udon Thani after seven years of agony
“The once clean air in our community has been replaced by a stench and the factory’s wastewater that has affected our rice farms.”
Thailand looks to clear Bangkok’s polluted skies with giant railway linking China, Singapore
But the caveats for Thailand lie in the usual issue of how these projects are implemented, whether it will be a source of vested interests in corruption and siphoning off the budget.