Environment and land

The Pollution Control Department (PCD) Director-General, Pralong Dumrongthai, said the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) has joined hands with Thammasat University, the Ministry of Interior, civil society organizations, and partners, to arrange a boat rowing activity to clean up garbage from the Chao ...

The Industry Ministry will call on local steel manufacturers to collaboratively design a 5-10 year roadmap for the development of the country’s steel industry to serve new targeted industries in the flagship Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). Keep reading ...

The Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) announced a recently approved public-private partnership plan for Digital Park Thailand (EECD), one of the key components of the Thai Government’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) development initiative. Digital Park Thailand is a 115-hectare site strategically located within the EEC. ...

News agencies in the eastern region recently entered discussions to improve the quality of news reporting on the development of the EEC. Local news agencies from Chonburi, Rayong, and Chachoengsao met at Pattaya City Hall to create a media network to provide constructive and factual information, ...

Vegetables and fruits found in lunches for students under the government-sponsored lunch programme are almost 100 percent contaminated with pesticides and 99 percent of the urine samples from students and teachers in four provinces were tested with organophosphate, a deadly toxic pesticide that attacks nervous ...

Rice is close to my heart, as a consumer, as a career choice and as a member of a “rice community” of billions. My own family has been involved in rice farming for more than three generations – and still going!So I am also deeply ...

Ampai Meelap, 43, a durian farmer on the frontlines of climate change witnesses the threats of unpredictable weather every year.Her durian plantation in Rayong’s Wang Chan district in eastern Thailand has lost yields in recent years after facing drought and changing rainfall patterns.Keep reading ...

The meeting on climate change currently taking place in the city of Katowice, Poland, has occurred so quietly that few pre-conference reports can be found in the media. Negotiators will attempt to set up rules and plans on the implementation of the 2015 Paris climate ...

Attapol Charoenchansa, the newly-appointed chief of the Royal Forest Department (RFD), says he will be making use of his 30 years of experience to expand the country’s forested area and deal with those involved with deforestation. Keep reading ...

Thailand launched the Centre of Excellence for Soil Research in Asia (Cesra), the world’s first regional hub to promote sustainable soil management, to mark Wednesday’s World Soil Day. Keep reading ...