By Reuters and published by CNA THE Pheu Thai-led coalition government plans to increase the daily minimum wage to 400 baht ($10.84) from October, a spokesperson said today (May 2), a policy that could help lift consumption in Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy. A committee will meet this month to assess which industries are prepared
Day: May 2, 2024
Biggest forest loss in a decade over the past year
IN A WAKE UP call for urgent action Seub Nakhasathien Foundation said in a Facebook post today (May 2) that Thailand’s forest loss soared to the highest level in a decade from 2023 to 2024 dwindling 317,819.20 rai from 2022 leading to 31.47% of the country’s total area now being forested, Amarin TV said.
Read moreExtreme heat causes sandals to shrink
A YOUNG man bought a pair of sandals from a department store in Thailand after trying them on and ensuring they fit fine but on the way back home they were exposed to current extremely hot weather at the back of his pickup truck and once home to his surprise they had shrunk from
Read morePressure on Sheffield Wednesday owner eased
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRESSURE SUSTAINABLY BUILT on Dejpon Chansiri, the Thai owner of English Championship football club Sheffield Wednesday, is more or less diminishing now that German manager Danny Rohl has decidedly offered to stay with the Owls despite the fifty-fifty chances of their being relegated from the second tier of the English
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