People and Government

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has welcomed Thai efforts to reduce statelessness among children, according to a statement issued on Thursday.In a statement, the UN refugee agency said it welcomed a development in which more than 60,000 stateless students in Thailand could ...

The Ministry of Social Development and Human Security today (October 10) started to transfer Bt600 to government bank accounts of qualified parents of newborns who registered for the Child Support Grant (CSG) project.Keep reading ...

Last Monday, civic networks in Thailand gathered to mark World Habitat Day 2019 and called on the government to address land and housing problems facing the poor in both, urban communities and rural areas.The call was made at a gathering of 2,000 members of the ...

Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak has set a timeframe for the government to become fully digital by 2022.He instructed the Digital Government Development Agency on Wednesday (October 9) to prioritise its proposals and forward them next month to a committee tasked with electronically integrating all ...

The Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau will support conferences that promote economic corridors with neighbouring countries to strengthen Thailand’s ambition to become an events hub for the Greater Mekong Subregion.It hopes to build economic ties with neighbours Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam by supporting ...

Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said his ministry will be coordinating between businesses in Thailand and Myanmar to strengthen border trade and boost bilateral ties.Myanmar and Thailand also signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) ton October 1 to boost the transfer of goods across the second ...

Bangkok ranks 75th out of 102 cities worldwide in smart city rankings, according to the IMD Smart City (SCI) Index for 2019.It’s the first edition of the index, jointly commissioned by the World Competitiveness Center’s Smart City Observatory, under the IMD Business School in Switzerland ...

The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society confirmed the Personal Information Protection Act will become officially effective in the middle of next year. The ministry will organize a major seminar to disseminate knowledge and understanding about the new law, which is intended to prevent unauthorized ...

Thailand had the highest suicide rates in ASEAN, according to a recent study conducted by the World Health Organisation. The WHO ranked Thailand 32nd worldwide in its annual suicide rate report which came out earlier this month. The report indicated around 10,000 deaths by suicide ...

Rights groups and IT industry advocates are calling on Thai lawmakers to amend a new Cybersecurity Act that they say gives the government virtually unchecked power to monitor online data.The law sailed through an appointed Parliament unopposed in February, in the final months of the ...