Chiang Mai, Thailand – Sorayut Chayapanyo, the 32-year-old abbot of the Doi Pha Som forest temple, has found little use for his Stanford University economics degree in the hills of Chiang Mai. ‘I studied pure, hard-core, theoretical economics and now I can say it’s all BS,’ Sorayut said, sitting in his spartan hut on top […]
NARATHIWAT, Dec 29 – Four people were wounded by a car bomb at a Highway Department office in the violence-plagued province of Narathiwat Wednesday morning. Hidden in a pick-up truck, the bomb exploded in Bajo district, injuring four people–Abul Dueramae, 24; Uma Jeror, 69; Satorpa Uma, 50; and Masamree Naleng, 26. They were all sent […]
Bangkok – Cambodian troops on Wednesday arrested a Thai legislator and six other Thais who were inspecting a disputed area on the Thai-Cambodian border, officials said. Panich Wikitsate, a member of the ruling Democrat Party, and six colleagues were detained by Cambodian troops in a disputed zone in Aranyaprathet district of Sa Keow province, 200 […]
Police say a 16 year old girl, a minor, was driving the sedan that collided with a passenger van in a horror road accident on an elevated tollway section of the Vibhavadi Rangsit highway on Monday night, killing eight people and injuring six others. They said persons of that age were not entitled to a […]
BANGKOK, December 28 (RIA Novosti) A Thai prosecutor’s office has dropped a child molestation charge against acclaimed Russian pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev, Pletnev’s lawyer said on Tuesday. “No charges will be brought against Pletnev anymore. All the legal procedures are finished towards him. I have received a Thai prosecutor’s office’s decree,” the lawyer said, […]
A Swedish man has been attacked during a visit to a Tiger Temple outside Bangkok. The tigers are taken care of by some of the local monks, and normally they are very friendly. But when Erik from Sundsvall climbed into a restricted area with nine tigers, some of this friendliness seemed to disappear. ”One of […]
28 December 2010 – The United Nations refugee agency today urged Thailand not to forcibly return a group of some 166 Myanmar nationals who fled their country amid renewed fighting and are currently seeking temporary protection from the Royal Government. On 25 December, the Thai authorities asked the group from Myanmar to return to their […]
Nattawat Samattadol, a friend of the owner of Enchanted Bar in the trendy J Avenue retail centre, said he did not recognise Zuckerberg at first, but became certain it was him after googling the young billionaire’s name and checking his photos.He said Zuckerberg arrived in a casual outfit – T-shirt and black slippers – which […]
