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Australia’s Kingsgate Consolidated has been given the green light to restart operations five years after Thailand’s then military government shut it down.

PHICHIT: Police and wildlife officials raided a property illegally farming water monitors and macaques and found many giant lizards tied-up and readied for export.

Distribution On February 4, 2022 General Situation The westerly trough will move to the upper North of Thailand with

BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): The Industry Ministry will ask Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-O-Cha to establish a committee to investigate the oil spill 20km off Map Ta Phut industrial port in Rayong, Minister Suriya Juangroongruangkit said on Tuesday (Feb 1).

Beaches on Koh Samet remain free from pollution by the oil slick that spread from a broken pipeline in the sea off Map Ta Phut, in Rayong, last week, Natural Resources and Environment Minister Varawut Silpa-archa said on Tuesday.

Tourism in Koh Samet could lose over 1.5 billion baht as the recent massive oil spill shatters travel confidence for the next three months, while tourism operators urge the government to impose more stringent preventive measures to protect natural resources.

Lummus technologies will be utilised in Thai PTT’s new GSP-7 project at the Map Ta Phut complex in Rayong.

Rayong: Mae Ramphueng beach in this eastern province has been declared a disaster area after oil leaking from an underwater pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand washed ashore and blackened the sand.

As efforts to save the seas off Rayong continue following an undersea pipeline leak near Map Ta Phut, public scepticism is growing about the kind of preventive measures and crisis management the company, Star Petroleum Refining Co (SPRC), has in place -- as well as in regard to the response from state authorities.

Akara Resources Plc, a gold mining company operating in the lower northern region, will be allowed to resume its mining operations if it can manage its operations in compliance with stricter requirements under the amended Minerals Act 2017, according to Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam.