• Thailand has proposed that it will ban all alcohol advertising, outraging media executives who say the ban would hurt the industry and do little to curb alcohol abuse. • At least three

Thailand's major fishing operators are driving a tough bargain for fuel price cutback. They recently rejected the government's offer to let them buy subsidised "purple fuel', which went on sale on

Negotiations logjam at global biodiversity meetthe world has a long way to go before an agreement is reached on how to share the benefits of biological resources. This was proved at the meeting of

Close on the heels of the eu issuing fishing quotas (see Down To Earth,

The sales of Thai restaurants serving shark's fin soup have declined significantly after an international environmental organisation released a report stating that the mammal's fins contained

A revised law of the Thailand government banning the use of fishing gear during the peak breeding season cannot be enforced due to strong opposition from commercial fisherfolk, stated Dhammarong

The Tha Chin river is slowly recovering from the deluge of black, foul-smelling water which killed thousands of fish. The river's highly polluted state was first noticed by the officials of Suphan

A research team looking into the economic value of resources in the Mae Yom National Park in Phrae concluded that the Kaeng Sua Ten dam, that was planned for the area, is not worth building.

villagers in Thailand have threatened to seal the forests in Kanchanaburi if the government did not stop work on the Thai-Burmese gas pipeline. They had

A problem of mammoth proportions has besotted the Thai capital as well as Phuket, Pattaya and Chiangmai. Nearly 100 elephants from the northeastern part of the country have recently been brought to

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