Some 100 members of a Lam Say Bai canal conservation group and allies on Wednesday filed a petition urging Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha to call off the construction of a 61-megawatt biomass power plant in Tambon Nam Pleek of Amnat Charoen's Muang district and cancel its operating permit.

Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha on Tuesday stressed that Thailand is committed to fighting human trafficking, as the US State Department released its 2017 Trafficking in Persons report late tonight (Bangkok time).