Ministry to write new guidelines for medical research
The Public Health Ministry is working on national guidelines for all human research projects.
"While attracting the [international] pharmaceutical industry to launch clinical trials here, we have to protect our people who are going to be the subjects of the research," Dr Chatri Bancheun, director-general of the Medical Services Department, said last week.
'Austrian firm pressured BMA'
A Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) executive yesterday accused Austrian firm Steyr Daimler Puch of providing faulty information that led Governor Apirak Kosayodhin to open a letter of credit, putting into effect the scandal-plagued deal to procure the firm's fire-trucks and boats.
New shrine in 10 days
People will be able to pay their respects to the new Thao Maha Phrom statue at the Erawan Shrine in 10 days' time, after a deranged man smashed the old one to pieces with a hammer.
Drug rehab for Uthes
Bangkok's Dusit District Court yesterday ordered the husband of Chalasai "Mom Luk Pla" Yugala, to be submitted to a drug rehabilitation centre after he was arrested on Saturday while taking methamphetamines.
Villagers in Sa Kaew continue with protest
Hundreds of villagers from Baan Nongwa and Baan Nong Ma-auek in Sa Kaew's Watthana Nakhon district yesterday continued their blockade at the entrance of the Professional Waste Technology Co - also known as Prowaste - which treats industrial waste.
Railway worker, 21, shot dead
A man was killed in a drive-by shooting by suspected Islamic militants in the deep South yesterday, while officials insisted that rising oil prices will not affect their job of providing security.
Govt orders food safety crackdown
The Public Health Ministry has ordered a crackdown on food safety after 169 orphans from Ang Thong's Wat Sa Kaew School were rushed to hospital on Saturday night with food poisoning.
