Rice row

US eyeing patent on Thai jasmine rice?

Shrimps are serious business

NEWS SNIPPETS

No sex please, we're Indians

Unfair means

Campaign>> FAIRNESS CREAM • Thailand

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It's all in the name

Thai farmers and activists object to a US company's use of the name Jasmati for a rice variety

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Under fire

The International Rice Research Institute accused of biopiracy

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Conservation corridors

Asia to have its first cross-country linkages of fragmented habitats

History in a sheet of sand

Checking in Quietly

Bad regulation equals contaminated imports

Thai government fails to tackle lead pollution in Klity Creek

Government ignores apex court order to clean up creek, one of the worst sites of industrial pollution in Thailand

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Exploring Mekong expedition

Book>> Mad About The Mekong by John Keay, Exploration and Empire in Southeast Asia Harper Collins London 2005

Project disaster

A natural gas pipeline which is expected to wind its way through a forest area in western Thailand could jeopardise 14 protected areas and the …

You’ve got an SMS

Mobile>> Weather Forecast • Thailand

The South should work with NGOs

Walden Bello , co-director, Focus on the Global South, a research institute in Thailand, has done extensive work on the East Asia Miracle Paradigm.…

Playing the field

BONE BAZAAR

Two small border towns, Tachilek in Myanmar and Mae Sai in Thailand, thrive on illegal trade in animal products. ANIL AGARWAL and SUNITA NARAIN …

Thailand’s largest solar plant gives hope for more private sector projects

By replacing fossil fuels, the solar plant will avoid release of more than 1.3 million tonnes of greenhouse gases into atmosphere over next 25 years

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