People and Government

The government should put more effort into improving children’s mathematics skills to handle changes in the current world, an academic said, amid signs that the country is lagging regional competitors in innovation development.While science and mathematics are keys to innovation, there is big room for ...

Tackling the problems of people’s livelihoods is the most important of the government’s 12 urgent policies outlined to parliament on July 25, according to the result of an opinion survey carried out by Suan Dusit Rajabhat University, or Suan Dusit Poll.Keep reading ...

If you’ve been around Bangkok over the past few months, you may have seen a young woman accompanied by a black Labrador riding the BTS Skytrain or strolling through some department stores. Her story with Luther, her guide dog, has gone viral on social media.Keep ...

Companies will face legal action and have their assets seized if they fail to make the mandatory contributions to the Social Security and Workmen’s Compensation funds, the Social Security Office has warned.Secretary-general Ananchai Uthaipattanacheep said on Thursday that penalties will be imposed on employers who ...

Social Development and Human Security Juti Krairiksh said he would speed up the drafting of a new master plan for elderly care and submit it for the Cabinet’s approval within a month.Juti was speaking to reporters on Tuesday while accompanying a team of doctors from ...

Thailand’s education sector is like a mountain and the only way it can be reformed is if problems are solved after taking an overview instead of just handling issues when they arise, a former chairperson of the Independent Committee for Education Reform (ICER) said, as ...

The Public Health Ministry has changed the medications used to treat malaria in two northeastern border provinces where cases of drug-resistance have been reported.Assadang Ruay-achin, spokesman for the disease control department, said on Wednesday that infection with the mosquito-born malaria parasite was normally treated with ...

The Revenue Department is studying two options for the government’s personal income tax cut campaign promise — one an outright 10-percentage point cut across tax brackets and the other a 10% cut across brackets.For the cut by 10 percentage points, individual taxpayers who are liable ...

Proper control to prevent state authorities’ misuse of the Cybersecurity Act is one of the many suggestions made by people in an opinion survey carried out jointly by the Public Relations Department (PRD) and National Institute of Development Administration (Nida).The poll was conducted on June ...

Parents in Thailand are split as to whether corporal punishment for their children is the right way to go. A recent survey of 999 Thai parents by YouGov found that two in five believe that physical punishment should be illegal, while another two in five believe ...