It's no secret that wild elephant populations are approaching dangerously low numbers. Overhunting, poaching, and shrinking habitats are keeping elephants down.

Villagers and soldiers remove damaged trees blocking a village weir in tambon Bueng Nakhon. The barrier normally helps to ease overflow from the Pran Buri River.

The Industry Ministry is on the verge of approving up to 70 gold exploration licences that have been in limbo for the past seven years. 

The big meal — fermented wild mushrooms and soybeans wrapped in leaves, boiled bamboo shoots, sticky rice, and pomelo — was ready long before the guests arrived.

A southwestern monsoon over the Andaman Sea and Gulf of Thailand brought heavy downpours, strong winds and high tides in several southern provinces.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives is looking at whether technology based on genetically modified organisms (GMO) could improve four so-called economic crops. 

The Transport Ministry plans to set aside 800 billion baht to fund a 10-year infrastructure development scheme starting in 2016, focusing on overhauling the rail and land transport of the country.

Some 140 tiger experts and government officials from 20 countries met in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Sunday to review progress towards an ambitious goal of doubling their number in the wild by