Environment and land

Developing countries rounded on the United States and its allies at emergency climate talks Sunday (Sep 9), accusing the world’s richest nations of stalling a deal aimed at preventing runaway global warming.Experts from around the world have been locked in discussions this week in Bangkok, ...

Thailand plans to attract leading European financial institutions to help develop a financial centre in the country’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) to forge a financial link with Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV).Industry Minister Uttama Savanayana held discussions with Geoff Donald, executive director of the ...

The effects of widely used farm chemicals have led to at least 1,715 deaths over the past three years.“The deaths of nearly 600 people each year are directly a result of the use of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and pesticides,” National Health Security Office (NHSO) secretary-general ...

Two private companies have been given permission to invest in special economic zones (SEZs) in Tak and Kanchanburi provinces. The SEZ development policy committee gave the nod to the two companies, the names of which have yet to be revealed, during a meeting presided over ...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday mandated that the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) and the Board of Investment (BoI) jointly revise the investment target for 10 special economic zones (SEZs) to make them more attractive to investors. The two agencies met the SEZ ...

The Board of Investment’s (BOI) investment promotion measure in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) is especially designed to boost targeted investment activities in designated areas in three provinces: Chachoengsao, Chonburi and Rayong. Private sector is encouraged through this measure to involve in human resources development ...

There has been a steady stream of Chinese delegations coming to Thailand to look at business opportunities, particularly in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).Most recently a group of high-ranking Chinese officials and executives met with Thai counterparts at the 6th meeting of the Joint Committee ...

An undemocratic and unfair negotiation mechanism in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will eventually lead to the failure of the landmark Paris Agreement, civic groups said yesterday.As the UNFCCC opens a meeting on climate change in Bangkok today to finalise the ...

September marks a series of seismic auctions that will determine whether Thailand’s business realm will continue to be dominated by the same old oligarchs or if newcomers with big bucks could shake up the monopolistic arena. The terms of reference (ToR) for the 200-billion-baht high-speed ...

Though Thailand has made impressive progress on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, it still faces many challenges and the large implementation gap on the global scale remains to be solved.  These facts have surfaced as Bangkok prepares to host the United Nations Framework Convention on ...