SPECIAL REPORT: Business leaders are worried that the rising cost of energy, labour could put upward pressure on inflation and hit consumer spending, Published: 30/04/2012 at 02:20 AM Newspaper section: News Think prices for food and fuel are high already? Even worse may yet come

State Railway of Thailand is taking small steps toward improving its infrastructure and reputation. Published: 14/04/2012 at 02:44 AM Newspaper section: Business It was 11.45 on a February night when 27-year-old Anon Chawseeroy and three friends boarded a third-class train at Rang

THE NATION April 3, 2012 1:00 am The Tourism Authority of Thailand is working hard to extend the life of Thailand Privilege Card Co (TPC) by seeking new funding in a bid to end continuing controversy over the future of the Elite Card scheme. A source at the TAT, who declined to be named, said

Published: 18/03/2012 at 02:23 AM Newspaper section: News For people on a fixed salary, the runaway cost of living has bitten deep into their pockets and many are forced to take second and even third jobs to make ends meet. State employee Arpasri Khamjui sells food during weekends

Published: 14/03/2012 at 02:37 AM Newspaper section: News All Thai citizens will be eligible for unconditional free treatment in emergency cases from April 1. The move comes as the cabinet yesterday approved the first step of its plan to integrate funding and health services of the

Wannapa KhaopaThe Nation February 27, 2012 1:00 am Apparent flaws in the Ordinary National Educational Test (O-Net) have provided another strong reminder that Thailand's education system badly needs improvement. For years, agencies have lamented the falling average of O-Net scores among students i

Published: 24/02/2012 at 02:28 AM Newspaper section: News Despite its stated policy to heal the wounds inflicted by state violence in the restive South, the government's announcement of 7.5 million baht in compensation for each victim of state violence has led to much confusion.

The Public Health Ministry has put together a campaign aimed at providing official medical help and rehabilitate mental patients who've been kept in chains and restraints across Thailand. Families of mental patients say they keep them chained up to prevent the patients from hurting others and t

The Nation January 30, 2012 6:53 pm Thailand's average hotel occupancy rate was at 59.21 per cent last year, according to the figures accumulated by the Thai Hotels Association (THA).     Surapong Techaruvichit, vice president of the Thai Hotels Association (THA), admitted that the rate was no

SPECIAL INTERVIEW: The education minister wants to have a radical shake-up Published: 3/02/2012 at 12:00 AM Newspaper section: News BangkokPost Providing every Prathom 1 student with a tablet computer is not the only education policy that has sparked controversy under this govern

| Pattaya Focus In Thailand there are many cases of people impersonating a police officer.  Where do they get their uniforms?   The steady flow of news about crimes committed by people impersonating police officers is always a depressing feature of Pattaya’s media headlines. In most

Published: 23/01/2012 at 12:00 AM Newspaper section: News BangkokPost Water should be released from major dams in the North to prepare for new inflows, a Chulalongkorn University's expert said. The amount of water held in many dams, especially Bhumibol and Sirikit dams in Tak and U

Published: 23/01/2012 at 12:00 AM Newspaper section: News The Social Security Fund may soon find itself in financial difficulties when it starts paying old-age pensions in 2014, according to a top academic. Narong Phetprasert, an economics lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, sa

Published: 20/01/2012 at 12:00 AM Newspaper section: News Bangkok Post If we kept a record of the most frequently applied rationale the government has employed to justify its action or non-action, then "negative impact on tourism" should top the list. Over the past week the govern

Published: 20/01/2012 at 06:12 PM Newspaper section: News Bangkok Post Police have vowed to trace a gambling den that uses topless attendants at its gaming tables to attract punters after photos were posted on the internet. Police believed the casino shown in the picture

Wannapa Khaopa The Nation January 17, 2012 1:00 am Meeting former British prime minister Tony Blair in person yesterday was an exciting and inspiring moment for a number of Thai students. "We were really excited that we had a chance to meet him in person," a group of 10 secondary students fr

Published: 12/01/2012 at 11:33 AM Online news:Bangkok Post The tourism business boomed in 2011, with overall revenue up 23.92 per cent over 2010 to 734.59 billion baht, a historic high, despite the flood crisis, Supol Sriphan, director general of the Tourism Department at the Tour

Published: 26/12/2011 at 11:38 AM Online news:Bangkok Post The government on Monday opened a centre for preventing and reducing the number of road accidents during the 2011 New Year holiday period. Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department chief Wibul Sanguanpong said the c

From immigration questions to worries about social acceptance, many airline executives show they are not ready to hire the third gender. Published: 21/12/2011 at 12:00 AM Newspaper section: Business While the start-up carrier PC Air has defied an industry norm by hiring four tran

THE NATION December 15, 2011 1:00 am The government's One Tablet PC per Child policy will be fully implemented by May, Education Minister Woravat Auapinyakul pledged yesterday. "We will try to give tablet PCs to all students in primary and secondary school," he said, adding that vocational s