'No Potjaman leadership bid'
Pheu Thai Party heavyweights on Sunday denied speculation that Khunying Potjaman na Pombejra, ex-wife of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, will step in and take the helm at the party, though party sources said Khunying Potjaman has played a key role in the ongoing changes in the party's executive structure to end the internal conflict among party factions.
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No end in sight: Bangkok's flood problem to persist
Nine years after the epic flood of 2011, the upper-eastern part of Bangkok -- the low-lying and flood-prone area -- is still as vulnerable as ever to inundation as City Hall might not be able to develop six flood catchment projects there as planned.
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Onlookers to child beating face action
The Office of the Private Education Commission (Opec) will on Monday ask executives at the privately-run Sarasas Witaed Ratchaphruek School to take legal action against staff members who watched a teacher beat young children but did nothing to stop it.
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Saree: Consumers at risk
The National Hazardous Substances Committee (NHSC) has been urged to stand by its commitment to ban paraquat and chlorpyrifos from the agricultural sector, after traces of the toxic herbicide and pesticide were detected in food ingredients.
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Farmers hop on to growing world trend
The fried crickets you buy from a roadside vendor are part of a thriving farming industry raising and exporting crickets now worth 1 billion baht a year.
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The Department of Disease Control is urging pharmacies nationwide -- particularly in provinces along the Myanmar border -- to keep an eye out for migrant workers who buy suspiciously large amounts of pain and fever medications as a part of its effort to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the country.
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