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Experts urge people to help climate-change mitigation as big goals loom
The Nation 26 November 2016 | PRATCH RUJIVANAROM
THE government is confident that Thailand will achieve the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent within 2020, but is calling on all citizens to participate in the effort to meet an even more ambitious goal by 2025.
Ethanol plant partly closed after toxic emissions
Bangkok Post 26 November 2016
An ethanol factory in Suphan Buri has been ordered to partly suspend operations until it corrects procedures after local residents complained of hydrogen sulfide emissions.
Divided over development: Mukdahan discusses Special Economic Zone
The Isaan Record 23 November 2016
MUKDAHAN – Hopes are high among business people and state officials in Mukdahan Province for the launch of a Special Economic Zone. But locals in the border province are divided over whether the government’s new development policy will do more harm than good.
80% of Vietnamese industrial zones violate environmental regulations: expert
TUOI TRE NEWS | 21 November 2016
Eighty in every 100 industrial zones in Vietnam are violating the country’s environmental regulations, an expert said at an economic workshop in Hanoi on Friday.
Thai court scraps mine defamation case in rare media win
Agence France-Presse 16 November 2016
A Thai court on Wednesday threw out defamation charges against a news agency for alleging environmental damage by a gold mine, a lawyer said, in a rare win for press freedom in the country.
Rights groups fret over Trump
The Nation 12 November 2016 | Pratch Rujivanarom and Juthathip Lucksanawong
Human rights defenders and environment conservationists have expressed concerns over Trump’s political platform, which might be more lenient to the military government in Thailand.
‘Environmental refugees’ in Mekong River Delta expected in future, experts say
VietNamNet Bridge 02 November 2016
Vietnam, especially the Mekong River Delta, has been warned for 20 years that it will be one of the areas to suffer most seriously from climate change.
Locals pay the price as junta pushes for Songkhla SEZ
Prachatai 31 October 2016 | Kongpob Areerat
In a bid to lure investors, Thailand’s junta plans to evict some 300 citizens from their homes to construct a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the southern province of Songkhla. While the military’s development plans could boost a stalled economy, the country’s poor are paying the price.
Scrap rejected by Thailand has hazardous amounts of lead from electronic waste, ministries say
Kyodo 28 October 2016
The government found a potentially hazardous amount of lead in some 200 tons of scrap material Thai authorities refused to accept from Japan, government sources disclosed.
NGOs seek to overturn lead pigments authorisation
Chemical Watch 27 October 2016
Decision is 'incompatible' with EU's international commitments
A group of NGOs are contesting the European Commission’s Decision to authorise the use of two lead chromate pigments.
