Project boosts for informal workers

labour: More than 16 million informal workers received earnings through 67 tasks to improve their livelihoods last year, a high-level meeting was informed yesterday.

The national panel on informal work management gathering headed by Deputy Leading Minister Prawit Wongsuwon was held remotely recently with the agenda which includes a review of the labour promotion and sustenance improvement projects designed for informal workers.

The projects were launched a year ago at the height from the Covid-19 pandemic. The meeting was told that 16. eight informal workers were able to earn an average of 6, 853 baht monthly, an increase of 4% on the monthly typical in the previous year.

A separate project was also underway along with 1, 160 participating informal workers producing and selling handicrafts to supplement their incomes.

The project provides boosted incomes simply by 4, 500 baht per person normally each month, represents an overall increase of 80 percent on pre-pandemic ranges the meeting has been told.

 

Sira: Free on bail

Crackdown nets 4m illegal pills

More than 4 million illegal painkiller and steroid tablets have been seized in a major crackdown within Khon Kaen during the past six months, according to the Food and Drug Administration and the Crime Suppression Law enforcement.

The 2 agencies announced in a joint press briefing yesterday that 2 million steroids plus 2 . 2 painkillers, along with 26, 1000 bottles of illegally produced herbal drink, were seized within a raid at 4 locations in Phon district of Khon Kaen on 03 22.

The police expanded their particular investigation and could locate two industrial facilities which produced the supplements and herbal consume in Khon Kaen and Rayong. They will raided the factories on May 3 and arrested six people.

Polluted areas neglect to clean up act

None of 18 national pollution-control areas are ready to possess the restriction rescinded, according to a study commissioned with the Pollution Control Section (PCD).

The areas include Phi island within Krabi, Pattaya City in Chon Buri and the Map Konstruera Phut Industrial Property in Rayong.

Atthapol Charoenchansa, the PCD director-general, said Chulalongkorn University had been commissioned to analyze which of the areas, if any, had been ready to have the status removed.

The result of the study showed none of the areas are fit to have the standing lifted, although Phi island have been deemed likely to be ready to leave the zone in three years. The particular 18 areas can be found in 13 provinces including Krabi, Chon Buri, Nakhon Pathom, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, Samut Sakhon, Songkhla and Phuket.

Court hands Sira 16-month jail term

Former Bangkok MEGA-PIXEL Sira Jenjaka has been handed a 16-month prison sentence to get defaming Maj Style Riengthong Naenna and the Mongkutwattana Hospital which usually he owns.

The hospital proprietor had accused the former Palang Pracharath Celebration MP of making slanderous claims against him on social media on several occasions concerning his running of a Covid-19 field medical center and of leading a group of people in trespassing on the site in May last year.

Maj Gen Rienthong opened the field hospital next to his hospital in Laksi district.

The court in Don Muang discovered Sira guilty plus sentenced him to 16 months in jail. The politician was later freed on 21, 600-baht bail after he appealed the phrase.