Govt insists rice storage sufficient
Source: The Nation
Pathum Thani :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-24 10:45:10 -0700 | green-news
00 am In spite of the high quantity of rice entering the government's pledging project, the Commerce Ministry yesterday insisted it had enough warehouse space to cope with the stockpile. Wiboonlasana Ruamraksa, director-general of the ministry's Internal Trade Department, said...
C&G to spend Bt900 million building a waste-to-energy plant in Bangkok
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-21 10:34:47 -0700 | green-news
Headquartered in Hong Kong and listed on the Singapore main board in April 2005, C&G is a leading waste-to-energy investor and operator in China. C&G invests in, constructs, operates and maintains waste incineration power plants for the treatment of municipal...
Govt mulls alternative fuels for public buses to cut the reliance on imports
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-21 10:34:39 -0700 | green-news
While NGV and diesel have remained low-priced, E85 gasohol, BHD, compressed biomethane gas (CBG) and ED95, could also be used as viable fuels for public transport, according to Energy Minister Pongsak Ruktapongpisal. The Cabinet recently assigned the energy, finance, and...
Feathered friends of India now homeward bound (Wildlife Feature)
Source: NewKerala
Pong :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-14 07:26:25 -0700 | green-news
Only, unlike ancient traders and travellers, they take wings. The feathered guests that descend on various waterbodies across India with the onset of winter, after crossing national and international boundaries to avoid the extreme chill of their native habitats in...
Kingfishers caught in the act: The amazing hunting pictures that took TWO YEARS to capture
Source: Mail Online UK
Satun :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-11 04:31:10 -0700 | green-news
An amateur photographer has captured stunningly beautiful images of one of nature's finest fishermen at work. Phiphat Suwanmon, an amateur Thai photographer, spent two years photographing the blue-eared kingfisher in an attempt to document its extraordinary feeding habits.
Welcome to the world: Battle to save rarest leopard species boosted by birth of three adorable cubs ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-11 03:13:24 -0700 | green-news
11 April 2013 With their tiny paws and delicate whiskers these adorable cubs are three of the rarest breed of leopard in the world. Bred as part of a special conservation programme at Nashville Zoo, Tennessee, the cuddly clouded leopard...
Exporters call on govt to release older rice from stockpiles
Source: The Nation
Chiang Mai :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-08 10:51:49 -0700 | green-news
Thailand lost its decades-long position as the world's top rice-exporting nation last year, and is again being outpaced by India and Vietnam this year. A source from a giant rice-export company said the government should release its older stockpiles for...
Ministry to release 6-7m tonnes of rice this year
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-05 10:57:22 -0700 | green-news
As a result, the government is confident that Thailand will not face a loss greater than Bt80 billion under the rice-pledging programme. Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom said the planned release of stocks would be for both domestic supply and export...
No brownout or blackout: EGAT
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-04-03 01:54:56 -0700 | green-news
45 pm Expecting the new power peak of 26,600 megawatt on April 5, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand reassured the public that there will be no power brownout or blackout on the day. Expecting the new power peak of...
Thousands displaced by Myanmar dam
Source: Myanmar News
Chiang Mai :: Thailand | updated 2013-03-31 04:30:43 -0700 | green-news
While the fate of the dam hangs in the balance, so does those of the 2,400 people reportedly forced from their homes at gunpoint in the Sagaing region, and an estimated tens of thousands of others who would need to...
Thailand approves $3.6 bn budget in rice intervention
Source: The Economic Times
Chachoengsao :: Thailand | updated 2013-03-31 02:33:34 -0700 | green-news
Thailand's cabinet has approved a 105 billion baht ($3.59 billion) budget to buy 7 million tonnes of paddy rice, as part of its rice intervention scheme for the 2012-13 production year, a government official said on Sunday. The buying period...
Jones Lang LaSalle |to observe earth hour
Source: The Nation
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-03-21 20:13:59 -0700 | green-news
Home » business » Jones Lang LaSalle to observe earth hour Earth Hour Jones Lang LaSalle to observe earth hour The Nation March 22, 2013 1:00 am Office buildings managed by Jones Lang LaSalle and LaSalle Investment Management across Asia...
Africa: USAID Missions in Africa and Asia Launch New Program to Stop Wildlife Trafficking
Source: All Africa
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-03-21 03:15:15 -0700 | green-news
Program will protect wildlife through strengthening the knowledge base and cooperation of governments, inter-governmental organizations, the private sector, and non-governmental organizations to tackle illegal wildlife trade (trafficking) between the two continents.
Prince William speaks out against illegal rhino and ivory trade
Posted by: Robert Myles
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2013-03-08 12:45:21 -0800 | green-news
Representatives of 177 countries gathering in Bangkok for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, (CITES), received support, yesterday, from Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, second in line to the British Crown. In a video address, to coincide with...
Vanda Orchids
Posted by: fifileigh
Costa Mesa :: CA :: USA | updated 2012-07-27 15:41:23 -0700 | green-news
Thursday, April 26, 2012, at the 23rd Annual Spring Garden Show, in Costa Mesa, California Vanda is an orchid, which originated from Thailand. There are two types of this exotic, tropical, rare and air plant.. These plants need sunlight, humidity,...
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