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Hot, Dry, in Thailand During Hot Dry Season
Thailand’s dry period is anticipated to be harsher and last longer than normal this year, the chairman of the Foundation for National Disaster Warning System of Thailand (NDWST) Smith Dharmasaroja told reporters on Friday.
Mr Smith held that the effects would be felt all over the country. He attributed [...]

Japanese Investors Deny Plans for Sneak Attack on Thai Environment
Certain Japanese investors have verified that they are still ready to increase speculation in Thailand but have asked the government to come up with a clear timeframe for determining the outcome of the Map Ta Phut impasse.
Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya yesterday requested Japanese investors to come [...]

Bank Hopes Baht Won’t Take a Bath
The Bank of Thailand should take care that the Thai baht’s value stays at between 33 to 34 baht per US dollar, Manoon Siriwan, an energy authority, said on Saturday.
“If the Thai currency is weaker than that levels, it could affect domestic retail prices of fuel”, Mr Manoon said, [...]

Hopeful Signs in Thai Economy
According to Thailand’s Finance Ministry’s forecast issued on Tuesday, The Thai economy will definitely get better and the gross domestic product could turn upward into positive territory in the final quarter of 2009.
Government Finance Ministry spokesperson Akeniti Nititanprapas told reporters that the GDP in the third quarter was expected to contract [...]

Thailand’s Trains Travel on Troubled Tracks
Senior maintenance technicians on Thailand’s State owned rail system; some with more than 20 years’ experience declare that the system is afflicted by a dearth of appropriate extra parts. They said experienced mechanics were attempting to meet impracticable requirements to continue running dilapidated equipment in service.
The SRT has 209 locomotives [...]

Greenpeace Bugs Bigshots in Hua Hin
Greenpeace, the environmental group, assembled at the 15th Asean Summit on Saturday, insisting Asian principals to take a important action to stop climate change.
The activist group hopes that positive steps will be taken by ASEAN member states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The group grabbed attention by rolling a transparent-plastic [...]

Thai Trains not Rollin’ Round the Bend
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Monday that the four-day railway union strike will be ended as rapidly as is doable.
The labor union of the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) had brought to a standstill train services in the South for four successive days; citing the necessity to [...]

Industry Halted by Environmental Concerns
The Thai Prime minister’s cabinet has endorsed a draft alteration to the 1992 Enhancement and Conservation of National Environmental Quality Act as recommended by the Council of State, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva told reporters, adding that the draft amendment was in accordance with Article 67 of the Thai constitution.
In spite of [...]

Rail Link to Suvarnabhumi Airport Almost Completed
A German company will manage the workings of the express rail line to Suvarnabhumi Airport from downtown Bangkok for its first few years of operation, according to the State Railway of Thailand (SRT).
The SRT union has resisted an arrangement to create a new branch to run the service, so [...]