Temple's free vegetables initiative sparks saving spree
People stream into a temple in Samut Songkhram province, shuffling in and out of stalls to pick up vegetables and other food items, during its "happy hour".
Royal reform bid threatens rally turnout
The anti-government demonstration planned for Oct 14 will not draw huge numbers as long as protest leaders insist on the reform of the monarchy, according to academics and observers.
Farmers brave bullets, prison for community land titles
SURAT THANI: Somruedee Bunthonglek has not repaired the bullet holes in the pickup truck her husband was driving when he survived an assassination attempt barely a year after her father was shot dead on the same communal farm in southern Thailand.
Health chiefs aim to stamp out bent clinics
Phatchari Koetphaibanlak is immune to being told her access to medical treatment at a designated facility under the "gold card" universal healthcare scheme is in place pending a transfer.
School under scrutiny over student abuse allegations
The abuse of kindergarten students at the Sarasas Witaed Ratchaphruek private school is a clear wake-up call for all stakeholders to come up with better child-protection measures.
Thai 'safari' welcomes city visitors
Prachuap Khiri Khan's Kui Buri National Park has always been popular among nature lovers, but now it's also an attractive choice for domestic visitors from city areas no longer able to travel abroad for this holidays.
With social media and academia, villagers save ancestral forest
CHIANG RAI: The villagers of Ban Boon Rueang in Chiang Khong district of this northern province had long known that they benefited from the community wetland forest that supplied them with fish and firewood, but it wasn't until devastating floods in 2010 that they realised just how much.
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.
Anti-govt protests set to escalate
Academics, politicians from opposition parties and student leaders believe anti-government demonstrations will escalate in the wake of the delay in the charter rewrite vote.
'Egg boy' a tourist draw
The popularity of the legend of Ai Khai (egg boy) -- believed to be the spirit of a boy with the power to grant people wishes -- has increased dramatically in recent months.
