Pol. Maj. Gen. Panop Vorathanatchakul, commander of a special unit, has unveiled the 2023 police dog rankings on the occasion of the Thai Police Dog Foundation Day on March 3, 2023.
He said the Police Dog, or K-9, Unit is a division within the Patrol and Special Operations Department that was originally established to support police work.
All police dogs are specially trained for their duties such as sniffing out criminals, drugs and bombs. It can also be trained to demonstrate how to rescue victims and to check property in disputes by smelling and assisting police officers with other requirements.
An average police dog works for 8 years. They are classified according to their nature. For example, if the dog is alert, it is trained to detect drugs. If the dog is not afraid of loud noises, it will be trained to defuse a bomb.
The training will take at least one year. The first 3 months are basic training before the dog is assigned to its main task for 6 months. The police dog will have to complete another 6-month internship before being officially classified as a police officer.
The unit conferred the title of “Maj. Police Dog” and awarded both the police dogs and officers to recognise the successful operations.
This year, 87 police dogs were awarded, including “Ira”, a 3-year-and-11-month-old brown and black female shepherd, and “Cola”, a 5-year-and-3-month-old brown male Magyar Vizsla, both of whom assisted in the ‘Nong Chomphu’ and ‘Ice the Iron Chest’ operations.
Cola and Ira
The Nong Chomphu case involved a 3-year-old girl who was found dead on 11 May 2020. Her uncle, Lung Pol, was suspected of being irritated by her crying. So he wrapped his hand around her face until she fell unconscious.
He threw her body on the road and went back to run his errands. When he returned, she was not dead and had disappeared into the forest. He pursued her in the forest until he found her body and then tried to camouflage it.
Ice The Iron Chest case involved Apichai Aongvisit, Ice, who imprisoned and tortured Varinthorn Chaichet, 24, in mid-2019. He locked her in a chest in a room. When she was found dead, he and his team dug a hole and put her body inside. The police officer later found her body near her house in Bang Khae, Bangkok, on 9 January 2020.
Suspended Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob, from Bhumjai Thai Party, said on Friday afternoon he will clarify himself to the Constitutional Court within 15 days as permitted by the law.
The Constitutional Court ordered Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob to stop working after it ruled on Friday that he holds shares at Buricharoen Construction company, which is forbidden for political office holder.
Since members of the opposition party accused him, Saksayam has always argued that he had already withdrew his shares from that company.
Deputy Transport Minister Atirat Rattanasaet will become caretaker minister during the period.
Party registrar Supachai Jaisamutr meanwhile said patty members understand the situation and Saksayam himself is not worried. He has clarified the matter to party members so they are all in good spirits.
The ministry has a 2023 annual budget of 228 billion baht, with 88 percent of that, or around 200 billion baht (6.5 billion U.S.dollars), allocated for investment and the rest for expenditure.
Egg – E – Egg AARGH! Chicken Art Festival. Artists Join Force with WAP Thailand to Break Chicken Free from the Inhumane Factory Farming. Screaming AARGH! At the top of our lung through 4 arts installations and performances in the heart of Bangkok at BACC
Did you know that every year, over 72 billion chickens are killed for their meat? Also, two out of three chickens live in an inhumane and gruesome environment.
Chicken meat is one of the most popular sources of protein, but there are high risks from eating those tainted and unsafe meat. To raise awareness in Thai society about animal welfare on farms and the impacts on our health and the environment, especially in the chicken industry, and to discuss solutions that we can all join hands to achieve, World Animal Protection – Thailand, a global non-governmental organization with a goal to ensure animal welfare, hosted, “Egg – E – Egg AARGH! Chicken Art Festival”. The festival brings together artists and activists from four different disciplines on Saturday, February 25, 2023, at the open space area in front of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC). After the event, all the installation arts and the arts from the youth artist drawing competition will remain on display at BACC until March 5, 2023.
Muandao Kongwannarat, Chicken Welfare Project Manager at World Animal Protection (WAP) – Thailand, said, “Egg – E – Egg AARGH! Chicken Art Festival is the second event in the series, following the well-received ‘Happy Meat Happy Me’ event held at the end of last year, which aimed at raising public awareness on food safety and ethical eating, and calling for a complete revolution in the food industry and animal welfare on farms prior to consumption. To keep the momentum going, WAP invites people to ‘scream’ at the top of their lung through arts. This festival represents the suffering that chickens face in the inhumane and gruesome environment of factory farms. Our aim is to urge related businesses to make the necessary decisions to improve animal welfare, such as rearranging the zoning to reduce crowding in the cage system, opting to raise slower-growing chickens, providing chickens with the proper space or materials that encourage natural behaviors, and reducing the chance of illness which will directly reduce the excessive use of antibiotics and the health hazards from antimicrobial resistance. All of these greatly affect the health and well-being of animals, humans, and the environment.”
According to Muandao Kongwannarat, this festival, held in the heart of the city, features artists from four different art disciplines. Maria Poonlertlarp, World Animal Protection-Thailand’s ambassador, and Nakrob Moonmanas, the revolutionary artist, collaborate on a piece called ‘The Last Suffer’, which sets the table for the last supper meal that humans nonchalantly feed to chickens before taking their lives. Following them, Teacher Siang, a Mor Lam Puppet folk artist, and the Angel Children group put on an installation art called ‘A4 Life’, featuring a three-feet-tall chicken made from bamboo coops and local wickerworks, standing on a space no bigger than the size of an A4 paper. At the event there were also two top-notch performances. Nontawat Machai, the boy who always dare to dream from Lanyim theatre, poured his heart and soul into the plot of ‘Kult of Chicken’, a performance art that bludgeon the chicken industry into reducing and putting an end to the inhumane environment of the industry. And the highlight show is from the 2004 Silapathorn Award winner, Pradit Prasatthong, fused Thai traditional dramatic performance with the newly adapted story of ‘Prince Lo and the Peculiar Chicken’. Not to mention the young musicians from LAAN and Beagle Hug that performed their songs for everyone to enjoy throughout the day.
The festival featured many more activities that everyone could be a part of, such as creating their own art and expressing their thoughts on colorful strips of fabric and attaching them to the giant chicken from the A4 Life art installation, asking for a better life for chickens and a better life for us. Additionally, there is also the display of youth artists from the drawing competition under the concept of “Factory Farming Antimicrobial Resistance Bacteria.”
The Chicken Art Festival may have come to an end, but the arts live on. Other than the performances that will be remembered by many of the visitors, please come and take a look at the installation art and join in calling for better treatment of chickens at the “Egg – E – Egg AARGH! Chicken Art Festival” until March 5, 2023, at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC). For more information, please visit our website at www.chickenartfestival.org or our Facebook page at World Animal Protection Thailand
Concept : Inspired by the famous painting “The Last Supper,” the artists have put their own spin on it by replacing the word “supper” with “suffer” to represent the suffering of chickens as a result of inhumane treatment in factory farming, all to satisfy human needs. This installation art is an interactive piece where people can take pictures and interact with the table and a bucket of chicken decorated with collage art to convey meaningful messages.
Artists : Pradit Prasatthong and Anatta Theatre Troupe
Title : ‘Prince Lo and the Peculiar Chicken’
Concept : Fantasy-Romantic Thai traditional dramatic performance
…A story of Prince Lo who is obsessed with a chicken and discovered that the chicken is strangely peculiar…
Synopsis: “Phu Jao Sa-ming Prai” the great spirit of all spirits, recived a secret order to eliminate “Prince Lo” of Mansruang, who was on a journey to find his lovers, the princesses of Srong, “Phra Puen” and “Phra Paeng.” So, the great spirit decided to consecrate the “Ghost Chicken” to lure Prince Lo into the magical forest of Viang Galong to eliminate him. As Prince Lo discovered and fought against the mysteries and dangerous tests in the forest, he discovered the peculiar hidden secret of the Ghost Chicken.”
Artists : Teacher Siang, a Mor Lam Puppet folk artist, and the Angel Children group
Title : ‘A4 Life’
Concept : An installation art of a three-feet-tall factory-farm chicken made from bamboo coops and local wickerwork is tied to a post with a rope. The space where the chicken is tethered is only as big as an A4 paper. This tells the story of chickens that spend their whole lives in a space no bigger than an A4 paper. The chicken is also blindfolded and forced to live in the dark with lights that turn on and off, forcing them to live in a time realm created by humans. As a result, they eat only when humans feed them.
Artist : Nontawat Machai
Title : Kult Of Chicken
Concept : The chicken farming factory is widely spread all over the world and will only continue to increase to meet the demand. This performance art from Lanyim theatre tells a story about the spread of consumerism through the production of chicken meat and the lives of the chickens
About World Animal Protection
World Animal Protection is a global organization with 14 offices all over the world, including Thailand, and headquarter located in the United Kingdom. For 55 years, we have been moving to end the needless suffering of animals, and aiming to elevate animal welfare. World Animal Protection has been operating in Thailand through many projects like Sustainable Food System Promotion through Factory Farm Animal Welfare, Elevating Animal Welfare in the Travel Industry for Thai Elephants and Wildlife. We have a mission to let every animal live freely while taking their quality of life, our health, and environment as the priorities.
Chiang Mai International Airport celebrated its 35th anniversary on March 1, 2023, with a record more than 200% increase in passenger arrivals.
Vijit Keawsaitiam, General Manager of Chiang Mai International Airport, Airports of Thailand, said on this occasion that Chiang Mai Airport has grown steadily over the past 10 years, reaching a record 11.3 million passenger arrivals in 2019. Only in 2020 – 2021, during the pandemic, did the airport see a decline in flight and passenger numbers.
Following the Thai and international governments’ decision to resume international travel, the airport has seen growth in flight and passenger arrivals again in 2022.
Press conference on the 35th anniversary of Chiang Mai Airport
The number of commercial flights was 39,027, an increase of 99.88 percent over the previous year. Passenger arrivals reached 5.46 million, an increase of 209.72 percent over the previous year. Freight transferred is 5,588 metric tons, an increase of 68.42 percent compared to 2021.
Chiang Mai Airport Deputy Director (Operations) Nattawut Ta-inta said the airport currently operates 24 airlines on 30 routes, 12 on domestic routes and 18 on international routes. Now it has operated at about 63 percent of its 2019 record before COVID-19 hit.
He added that the airport will open a new route, Kunming – Chiang Mai, this summer, around late March.
Chiang Mai Airport Deputy Director (Business Support) Sarayut Jumpa told reporters that the 10-billion baht (287 million U.S. dollars) Chiang Mai Airport Expansion Phase 1 project is now under Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and looking for contractors.
The 5-year project aims to build 2 additional buildings and another 32 bays to welcome 16.5 million tourists a year. He added that the airport will be able to receive 20 million travelers in the future. Sarayut said they should engage the contractor within the 2023 financial year.
Right now, the airport wants to spend 700 million to solve the space problem by constructing replacement buildings such as the fire station, the warehouse and the car parks. It expects to have found a contractor by the 2023 financial year.
NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov talked briefly Thursday in the highest-level in-person talks between the two countries since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But there was no indication of any movement toward easing the intense tensions between their two nations.
The short encounter came as relations between Washington and Moscow have plummeted over Russia’s war with Ukraine and tensions have soared amid a myriad of disagreements, complaints and recriminations on other matters ranging from arms control to embassy staffing and prisoners.
U.S. officials said Blinken and Lavrov chatted for roughly 10 minutes on the sidelines of the G-20 conference of foreign ministers in New Delhi. But there was no sign of any progress and the conference itself ended with the grouping unable to reach consensus on the Ukraine war.
In this handout photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov walks on the sideline of G20 foreign minister’s meeting in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 2, 2023. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)
Still, with relations at perhaps their lowest point since the Cuban Missile Crisis during the Cold War, the mere fact that the two men met showed that, at least for the moment, lines of high-level communication between Washington and Moscow remains open.
At a news conference, Blinken said he told Lavrov that the U.S. would continue to support Ukraine for as long as it takes and would push for the war to end through diplomatic terms that Kyiv agrees to.
“End this war of aggression, engage in meaningful diplomacy that can produce a just and durable peace,” Blinken said he had told Lavrov. But, he noted that “President Putin has demonstrated zero interest in engaging, saying there’s nothing to even talk about unless and until Ukraine accepts and I quote ‘the new territorial reality’.””
Blinken said he also urged Russia to reverse “its irresponsible decision and return to” participation in the New START nuclear treaty.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi Thursday, March 2, 2023. (Olivier Douliery/Pool Photo via AP)
“Mutual compliance is in the interest of both our countries,” Blinken said he told Lavrov. He added ”that no matter what else is happening in the world, in our relationship, the United States is always ready to engage and act on strategic arms control, just as the United States and the Soviet Union did even at the height of the Cold War.”
Blinken said he also urged Moscow to release detained American Paul Whelan and that “the United States has put forward a serious proposal. Russia should take it.”
Earlier, Blinken had told the G-20 meeting that Russia’s war with Ukraine could not go unchallenged.
“We must continue to call on Russia to end its war of aggression and withdraw from Ukraine for the sake of international peace and economic stability,” Blinken said. He noted that 141 countries had voted to condemn Russia at the United Nations on the one-year anniversary of the invasion.
The G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi, Thursday March 2, 2023. (Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP)
Yet, several members of the G-20, including host India, China and South Africa, chose to abstain in that vote and despite appeals from top Indian officials to look beyond their differences over Ukraine and forge consensus on other issues, the foreign ministers were unable to do so or agree on a final communique.
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said there were “divergences” on the issue of the war in Ukraine “which we could not reconcile as various parties held differing views.” “If we had a perfect meeting of minds on all issues, it would have been a collective statement,” Jaishankar said.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had earlier appealed for all members of the fractured G-20 to reach consensus on issues of particular concern to poorer countries even if the broader East-West split over Ukraine could not overcome.
“We all have our positions and our perspectives on how these tensions should be resolved,” Modi said. “We should not allow issues that we cannot resolve together to come in the way of those we can.”
Delegates attend the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi Thursday, March 2, 2023. (Olivier Douliery/Pool Photo via AP)
China and Russia objected to two paragraphs taken from the previous G-20 declaration in Bali last year, according to a summary of Thursday’s meeting released by India. And Blinken lamented that “Russia and China were the only two countries that made clear that they would not sign off on the text.”
The paragraphs stated that the war in Ukraine was causing immense human suffering while exacerbating fragilities in the global economy, the need to uphold international law, and that “the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible.”
Despite the failure to achieve full consensus, Blinken said it was positive that 18 of the 20 nations had agreed on a statement calling for an end to the war and immediate steps to improve energy and food security that have been badly affected by the conflict.
Lavrov, who did not mention speaking with Blinken when he held a news conference after the G-20 session, told reporters that Moscow would continue to press its action in Ukraine. He shrugged off Western claims of Russia’s isolation, saying “we aren’t feeling isolated. It’s the West that has isolated itself, and it will eventually come to realize it.”
He said Russia remains open to talks on ending the conflict in Ukraine, but he accused the West of effectively blocking such talks.
In this handout photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks to the media after the G20 foreign minister’s meeting in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 2, 2023. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)
“They are calling on us to have talks, but I don’t remember any Western colleagues calling on Ukraine to have talks,” he said. “They are encouraging Ukraine to continue the war.”
Lavrov also mocked U.S. threats against China, which has presented a peace plan for Ukraine that has been applauded by Moscow but dismissed by Washington and its Western allies.
“Our Western colleagues have lost self-control, forgotten their manners and put diplomacy aside, switching exclusively to blackmail and threats.” he said.
Russia had no immediate comment on the substance of the conversation, but Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Blinken had asked to speak to Lavrov.
It was their first contact since last summer, when Blinken talked to Lavrov by phone about a U.S. proposal for Russia to release Whelan and formerly detained WNBA star Brittney Griner. Griner was later released in a swap for imprisoned Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, but Whelan remains detained in Russia.
Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive, has been held for four years on espionage charges that his family and the United States government have said are baseless.
His brother David said the family is grateful that Blinken “took this high profile, rare opportunity to include Paul’s freedom in his discussions with Kremlin representatives.” But he noted that Paul Whelan turns 53 on Sunday, his fifth birthday in custody. He’s held in a prison in the Mordovia region in “sub-zero Celsius temperatures” with heat turned off, David Whelan said in an email.
“Paul continues to suffer…So for all the statecraft and stonewalling, our brother languishes for another birthday and however many more milestones as a Russian hostage,” he said.
The last time Blinken and Lavrov met in person was in Geneva, Switzerland, in January 2022 on the eve of Russia’s invasion. At that meeting, Blinken warned Lavrov about consequences if Russia went ahead with its planned military operation but also sought to address some complaints that Russian President Vladimir Putin had made about the U.S. and NATO.
Those talks proved to be inconclusive — Russia moved ahead with its plans to invade and Blinken then canceled a scheduled follow-up meeting with Lavrov that was set for just two days before Moscow eventually invaded on Feb. 24, 2022.
Shrimp Hatchery Business of Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CP Foods) becomes the first company to receive ISO 56002, a recognition of the company’s endeavor on being an innovative organization, from Management System Certification Institute (MASCI), making it the first company in Thailand’s aquacultural business to achieve the status.
The ISO certificate was presented to CP Foods’ Chief Operating Officer for Aqua-Business, Sujint Thammasart, by Jongrak Rojpalasatean, president of MASCI, at CP Tower 1, Bangkok.
Mr. Jongrak said CP Foods has a systematic innovation management process and ecosystem that helps the organization to improve efficiency, productivity and revenue based on cost optimization management. The company is able to provide new products, services and practices that meet the needs of stakeholders. As a result, the business can grow sustainably despite the disruption.
Mr. Sujint said that implementing ISO 56002 allows CP Foods’ hatchery business to adopt an agile way of working and become an innovative organization. As a result, the Shrimp Hatchery Business has been producing a number of cutting-edge technologies and practices that benefit not only CP Foods, but also farmers, Thai aquaculture industry and the community nearby.
“Good innovation management system helps the company to be efficient, agile, having better yield and better product quality. In addition, The Shrimp Hatchery Business will be a role model for other CP Food’s businesses to follow. This will drive our business operations to grow sustainably and enhance our competitiveness at the global level,” said Sujint.
Aside from ISO 56002, The Shrimp Hatchery Business also certifies standards such as ISO9001:2015, ISO14001:2015 and TLS 8001:2563.
Chairat Panthuraamphorn, M.D., the Administrative Physician
Winner of “The Best of CEO People Leader” Award
Driving growth through the “happiness” of his employees
Amid the increasingly unpredictable competition of the digital era, a constant for the success of any organization has remained its employees. The challenge then, is how a CEO can hold on to their best and brightest and inspire teamwork, as the most dominant internal concern for any business is its people.
For the administrative physician, Dr. Chairat Panthuraamphorn, M.D., Chief Executive Officer of Samitivej and BNH Hospitals, winner of the ‘The Best of CEO People Leader’ at Personnel Management Association of Thailand’s (PMAT) People Management Award 2022, the growth of his organization has always required approaches not found in textbooks and been based in the happiness of its employees.
“People are the cogs… but each cog has its own requirements”
If people and employees are cogs in the machinery that drive a company to success, and a hospital is actually a composition of businesses for the provision of healthcare, it is important that each cog operates in unison.
“My approach to people management can’t be found in textbooks. It is the result of my work and experience, observing the different behaviors, attitudes, ideas and cultures of different people. Just like different industries such as tourism, medicine and journalism require different management methods, I knew we could not apply a single administrative approach.
We have to understand the diversity of people, the diversity of jobs and the diversity of circumstances so we may achieve alignment. By placing people in the positions that they are best suited, we can succeed in our objectives.”
Passion is an excellent implement for achievement
Hiring is the first stage at which a company can find people with passion, the starting point for success. An employee must be motivated to work and achieve, which means executives must be aware of the aspirations of each of their employees and see how the company can be responsive to them.
“Finding employees with passion starts at recruitment. You have to use interviews to observe each individual’s perspectives and life goals, to see how they can bring value to the organization. Determination is important because even overwhelming intelligence cannot be equivalent to drive. A person with drive will attempt hundreds of methods to achieve what they desire. Another important factor is knowing the company’s objective.
Samitivej seeks to make the lives of its patients, staff, physicians, partners and communities better than before. We want to creative value and an ecosystem of caring for people, where people do not need to be ill. We are driven to create this value and we seek out people who share in this motivation as they will lead us to sustainability.”
Foster passion by managing desire, repay fittingly
The administrative physician, Dr. Chairat Panthuraamphorn, spoke on managing people, saying that when you seek an action from a person by first telling them what they will receive in return, that is desire, while telling them what will happen if they do not act is fear. Being human, all people are subject to desire, greed, anger and infatuation to differing degrees. Managing people is about managing desires so they align with the organization’s goals.
People management is about the abstract, which often wins over the concrete, and managing desire is managing people’s wants. Everyone loves themselves and this love can extend to their organization. “Fear, want and desire drive people, so we must understand their dreams, their hearts and their concerns.”
Most important is that people and their organizations must be heading in the same direction. Employee happiness must be re-checked regularly, at least every six months because the world is constantly changing. This can be done using the Healthy, Wealthy, Happy approach and WWW, or Woy Want Wow. Once re-checked, an in-depth evaluation has to be carried out with each grade to be approached differently.
Those with a Grade A-B evaluation must be repaid fittingly, while those with a Grade D-E must be repaid severely. This results in only employees committed to their work and led Samitivej staff to receive a high 88 percent Engagement Score, well above the national Thai average in 2022 of 71 percent and the Thailand Best Employer average of 85 percent.
Towards teamwork; in competition is collaboration, in collaboration is competition
A single piece of bread can direct an array of different fish to a single point, it all depends on where it is thrown. There are two ways to manage teamwork, In Competition is Collaboration, and, In Collaboration is Competition. People can exchange their strengths as people have different goals before they come together in collaboration. Managers must first understand that different generations have different ideas, views and skills.
Organizations contain people from both current and previous generations, and like Yin and Yang, there is black within the white and white within the black. While proportions of black and white may differ by circumstance, administrators must know how to blend the two generations. If both sides are tethered by too short of a rope, neither will be able to reach the other.
The previous generation must sever its tether and approach the younger generation, which holds the “good problem” that can lead to new ideas and plans. Once both sides collaborate, the organization can move forward. People are the source of success, if an organization has good and capable people upstream, good quality, service and innovation will result midstream and finances further downstream will also automatically be good.
“If you’re raising a sheep and don’t want it to be fat, you need a negative reinforcement, such as a dog. When the sheep sees the dog, it will only eat for a short time before running away. The dog is negative reinforcement. You can’t have too much of this however, the sheep will become anxious and always be running. When managing people in the modern age, you need a framework and objectives, it is your duty to open the gates to those objectives.”
Dr. Chairat Panthuraamphorn, M.D., Chief Executive Officer of Samitivej and BNH Hospitals, remarked in closing that “Success must come with happiness because success without happiness is not real success. My definition of happiness is making the life of my stakeholders better than before. We are in an advantageous position because we are able to make the lives of our staff, doctors, customers, communities and shareholders happier and better, we can create value for them.”
A screenshot from a video published Mar. 3, 2023 of a couple engaging in a public sex act in Pattaya City.
PATTAYA — Police on Friday said they are investigating a video that shows a couple engaging in a public sex act along a Pattaya beach road.
The two-minute clip that went viral on Friday shows a Thai woman appearing to perform an oral sex on a foreign man under street light on a public sidewalk as workers set up a stage nearby. The video of roadside intimacy drew criticism on social media, which police said they are looking through CCTV footage to identify the couple and press charges for public obscenity.
Public obscenity is punishable by a fine of up to 5,000 baht, though those who disseminate obscene material on the internet risk five years in prison and a fine up to 100,000 baht under the Computer Crime Act.
Twenty-three categories of fresh egg product of Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (or CP Foods) have been certified the “Carbon Footprint Reduction Label” or “Global Warming Reduction Label” from Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization (Public Organization) or TGO for its efforts in mitigating carbon greenhouse gas emissions in the production. These carbon reduction products demonstrate the company’s commitment to achieving its Net-Zero emission goal by 2050 and strive to offers consumers choices of environmentally friendly food products.
This certification recognizes the company’s consistent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain and its products have been verified in accordance with TGO-eligible reduction criteria to broaden Thai consumer choices of low-carbon eggs. These 23 categories of egg products including cage free egg, become the first egg products certified “global warming reduction” label in Thailand.
Mr. Kiatchai Maitriwong, Executive Director of TGO, said that CP Foods has dedicated to reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout value chain. The global warming reduction certificate is beneficial for both the environment and consumers demand more eco-friendly choices.
Mr. Somkid Wannalukkhee, CP Foods’ Head of Layer Business, said that the Company is on the pathway to reduce carbon emission toward the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2050. The company consistent mitigate greenhouse gas emission by optimizing its production efficiency including feed optimization; energy efficiency enhancement; promoting renewable energy, and use of recycled material in egg packaging, etc. This make its fresh egg together with cage free products are the first egg product in Thailand to be low carbon egg product in Thailand. Additionally, the label help consumers well informed purchase decision about low carbon food items. In 2022, it is subsequently that the egg production had reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 617 000 tons of CO2 equivalent.
Egg products of CP Foods are from layer hens raised in the closed housed equipped with world class technology, smart and automation system. The egg packaging made from 100 percent of recycled paper meanwhile PET plastic packaging use 80 percent recycled plastic in the layer that is not in direct contact with eggs.
In addition, CPF encourages the use of renewable energy in its system of food production. The production process of seven – layer complexes nationwide use electricity from biogas system converting chicken manure into electricity and additionally install solar panels to generate electricity for use in production processes. The company is pioneering one layer complex by using 100 percent renewable energy by this year to support the Net Zero.
Up to now, over 800 CP Foods’ food products, including fresh pork, chicken, shrimp, and animal feed, are certified with Carbon Footprint Label and 50 products are earned the global warming reduction label from TGO.
Vo Van Thuong, center, swears in as the president at the National Assembly in Hanoi, Vietnam Thursday, March 2, 2023. Vietnam's legislative has approved Thuong to the presidency post, two months after former president Nguyen Xuan Phuc stepped down. (Nhan Huu Sang/VNA via AP)
Beijing (Xinhua) – President Xi Jinping extended on Thursday a congratulatory message to Vo Van Thuong on his election as president of Vietnam, expressing his readiness to make joint efforts with Thuong to enable the sustained, healthy and stable growth of bilateral relations.
China and Vietnam are socialist friendly neighbors connected by mountains and rivers, the president said in the message.
Xi noted that he had reached key consensus with Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, or CPV, Central Committee, over consolidating traditional friendship, enhancing strategic dialogue and deepening win-win cooperation last year.
He underscored that he attaches great importance to relations with Vietnam and is willing to work with Thuong to move toward the joint building of a bilateral community with a shared future that bears strategic significance.
Thuong, a member of the Politburo of the CPV, was elected as Vietnam’s president on Thursday, Vietnam News Agency reported.
The country’s top legislature convened a special meeting and elected Thuong with an approval rate of 98.38 percent, the report said.
In a statement, Thuong vowed to be absolutely loyal to the nation, the people, and the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and to work hard to fulfill the duty assigned by the CPV, the state, and the people. He will serve until the term ends in 2026.
Thuong, who was born in December 1970, is the youngest member of the CPV Politburo.
In his official biography, his hometown is listed in Vinh Long province, part of the Mekong Delta. He has a master’s degree in philosophy and an advanced degree in political theory from the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics.
Newly elected president Vo Van Thuong delivers a speech at the National Assembly in Hanoi, Vietnam Thursday, March 2, 2023. (Bui Doan Tan/VNA via AP)
Thuong started his political career in 1993, working on student and youth affairs, and became secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City’s Communist Youth Union in 2003.
He was elected as an alternate member of the CPV Central Committee in 2006 and was appointed first secretary of the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union in 2007.
In 2011, he was elected as a member of the CPV Central Committee and then appointed secretary of the Quang Ngai Provincial Party Committee, serving from August 2011 to April 2014.
He was the standing deputy secretary of Ho Chi Minh City’s Municipal Party Committee from 2015 to 2020.
Thuong was reelected to the CPV Central Committee in 2016, when he became a member of the Politburo for the first time. In 2021, he was elected as a member of the committee for the third time and became a member of the Politburo for the second time. He was also assigned to serve as permanent member of the CPV Central Committee’s secretariat.
Nguyen Xuan Phuc resigned as Vietnam’s president on Jan 17 for personal reasons, and his membership of both the Politburo and the 13th CPV Central Committee were revoked.
The following day the National Assembly appointed Vo Thi Anh Xuan, Vietnam’s vice-president since 2021, as the acting president.
