Thai researchers have won international awards for inventions under support of the National Research Council.

Thousands of sitting commune chiefs and councilors went to the third mandate municipal, provincial, town and district council elections on May 26.

Almost 20 members of the international diplomatic corps and their spouses, such as Ambassadors of Cambodia, Myanmar and Turkey to Thailand, participated in a Thai cooking demonstration on May 23 at the Mandarin Oriental Bangkok Hotel organised by the Foreign Office of the Government Public Relations Department (PRD).

The Thai Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives has joined hands with the German International Cooperation to launch the Thai Rice NAMA campaign to improve farming efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions for sustainable development, piloting first in six provinces.

The Minister of Commerce has invited delegates from a major shopping mall in Okinawa, Japan, for business negotiations in Thailand to promote the sale of Thailand’s innovative farm products in Japan.

The Ministry of Culture of Thailand will hold a week of cultural and arts performances, known as Mahorasop Sompoch, to celebrate the coronation of His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajiraklaochaoyuhua. The performances will be broadcast live in 170 countries worldwide.

The Thai Prime Minister has helped promote Thailand Fruit Festival 2019: The World’s Most Delicious Fruits Fair, stressing Thailand’s capabilities to become the global tropical fruit trading superpower.

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) is planning to double official development assistance (ODA) for six members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) by 2023.

The tenth meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives to ASEAN and the ambassadors of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (RoK) took place in Jakarta, Indonesia, on May 17.

The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) kicked off a campaign for the provincial, municipal and district council election in Phnom Penh on May 17.

Thailand’s cabinet on May 14 passed resolutions on several issues, ranging from the transfers of high-ranking government officials and measures for oil palm growers to measures for business operators.

An ASEAN – Japan agreement on technical cooperation was signed in Tokyo on May 13, the first of its kind sealed between the bloc and its dialogue partner.

A traditional gold mine collapsed in Indonesia’s West Java province on May 13, taking the lives of at least five people and burying 15 others.

An ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) workshop on the management of marine plastic pollution opened in Nha Trang, in the central province of Khanh Hoa, on May 13.