Industry Minister Varawut Silpa-archa says steel mills must meet Thai Industrial Standards regardless of production technology, with repeat violations risking licence revocation.

A Thai bus driver, who reportedly drove under drug influence and crashed his company’s chartered double-decker coach at a downhill curve in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Wang Nam Khieo district on March 22 resulting in 18 passenger deaths and 32 injuries, has been sentenced to a four-year-and-one-month jail term and his driver’s licence permanently revoked.