Dr Cynthia Maung, the founder and director of the Mae Tao clinic in Tak’s Mae Sot district and an ethnic Karen born in Myanmar, has applied for Thai citizenship after helping to provide health services for patients along the border for three decades.Continue Reading
Driverless vehicles will be able to use GPS maps to find their way around Singapore, but they will have a near-impossible task navigating underground multi-storey car parks, say SUSS’ Ku Swee Yong and Dr Sheila Conejos.Continue Reading
Paternity leave will double from two to four weeks from next year, although it will be voluntary at the start. But some firms say they have already gone beyond the current mandatory two weeks of paternity leave. Continue Reading
Among other measures for parents announced at Budget 2023 was that new parents will receive a bigger cash bonus, starting from S$11,000 for their first child. Continue Reading
Amid the rising cost of living, making cigarettes more expensive could motivate more smokers to quit. Here’s how to make good intentions stick, says Yvette van der Eijk of the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.Continue Reading
Deputy national police chief Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn has vowed to stamp out graft rocking the Immigration Bureau (IB) and bring any corrupt officers to justice.Continue Reading
Thailand will provide insurance for foreign tourists when tourism fees for international arrivals are imposed in June, deputy government spokeswoman Traisuree Taisaranakul said yesterday.Continue Reading
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday hit back at the opposition over the granting of Thai citizenship to Chinese-born businessman and suspected crime boss Chaiyanat “Tuhao” Kornchayanant, saying it was the Yingluck Shinawatra government that endorsed his naturalisation.Continue Reading
The family of Duangphet “Dom” Phromthep, the young captain of the Wild Boars football team whose rescue from a flooded cave in 2018 captured the attention of the world, want his body brought back from the United Kingdom to Chiang Rai for a northern-style funeral.Continue Reading
The first online cultural map of Thailand is now available with more than 2,000 cultural sites across the country, ready to be upgraded for metaverse technologies.Continue Reading