Thailand, Qatar Agree To Expand Bilateral Cooperation
QATAR, May 16 (Bernama) -- Thailand and Qatar have agreed to expand bilateral cooperation in the economic, food security, financial, energy and health sectors, as well as to exchange support in global forums and to use each other as regional gateways, Thai News Agency (TNA) reported.
Combating Hardship in Rural Thailand
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JEFFREY BROWN: Next tonight, narrowing the gap between urban and rural dwellers that exists even in a relatively prosperous country such as Thailand. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on one social entrepreneur's project in that Southeast Asian nation. A version of this segment aired on the PBS program "Religion and Ethics Newsweekly." FRED DE SAM ...
Controversial Thailand dam to be ready by 2016
The Mae Wong Dam project in Nakhon Sawan, western Thailand will be completed in 2016, Agriculture minister Theera Wongsamut told a House meeting yesterday.
HIV prevalence high among migrant workers in Thailand | National news | The Phnom Penh Post - Cambodia's Newspaper of ...
Cambodian migrants have the highest rate of HIV among migrant groups in Thailand for reasons that range from the nature of their jobs to cultural attitudes towards condoms, Thai health workers said yesterday.
Qatar and Thailand sign three agreements
Qatar and Thailand yesterday held a session of official talks chaired by HE the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani and visiting Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
Many Northeast women alcoholic
A survey revealed up to 59.3 per cent of women aged between 25 and 60 living in rural areas in the Northeast consumed alcohol.
IHT Rendezvous: China's Expulsion of Journalist Has Parallels in Thailand
The alarming expulsion of the Al Jazeera correspondent from China has parallels in other parts of Asia. In Thailand, for example, an online journalist who failed to move quickly enough to erase royal insults from her Web site now finds herself in judicial peril.
MYANMAR-THAILAND Struggling against malaria in conflict areas
Health workers carrying out malaria control activities - sometimes covertly - in conflict zones along the Thai-Myanmar border hope additional donor funding will help reduce infection rates that have ...