BANGKOK, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Thailand's new excise tax law will see higher prices of certain goods, including some alcoholic beverages and cigarettes, and should generate about 12 billion baht ($360 million) in tax revenue, a senior government official said on Saturday.
Many mothers-to-be drink alcohol while expecting. There is little robust scientific evidence linking the occasional drink to health problems in children, but is one glass really safe?
A group of about 30 law enforcement, medical, and treatment professionals met behind closed doors Wednesday at Cottage Hospital to brace for the full legalization of cannabis.
FAIRBANKS — Martinis are extra dry today at Fairbanks' two distillery tasting rooms, and all cocktails may soon go off the menu based on a new interpretation of the 2014 law that legalized tasting rooms.
Earlier studies showed that alcoholic people have measurable changes in their resting brain activity. And now, for the first time, researchers find similar changes in the brains of non-alcoholic students who binge drink.
BETHLEHEM, Pennsylvania - After back-to-back weekends of wild college parties near Lehigh University, Bethlehem is dusting off a 17-year-old ordinance that could lead to the eviction of problem tenants to avert alcohol-fueled tragedies that have befallen other college towns.
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission begins using new standards for certain violations starting on Friday, Sept. 15.
11 global companies in the alcohol and beverage industry have signed an agreement to further commit in developing new robust and responsible marketing standards for digital channels.
Two manufacturers have been shut down after locally-brewed soft drink testing by the Victorian government found almost half of samples breached alcohol standards.
This report describes how the alcohol supplier landscape has dramatically changed. While the market is still dominated by a few large manufacturers, there are now small breweries, wineries and distillers in every state. And many of these small operators work outside the three-tier regulatory system.