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Bangkok Post
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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Building bookworms - The Untold Story

After launching an expensive campaign to promote a culture of reading in 2013 that achieved only moderate success, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is giving it another stab.

City Hall and The Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) last weekend launched a campaign called "Free Books for Early Childhood Children", which aims to drive up kids' reading abilities amid concern about all the potential learning lost during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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