A Cambodian non-government organisation claims that at least 10 Cambodian civilians had been shot dead while hunting for food or logging in the forested mountains on the Thai-Cambodian border last year and early this year. Executive director of the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) Ouch Leng and humanrights activist Chan Soveth came up with […]
BANGKOK, April 13 — Fifty-nine persons died and 976 were injured in road accidents across Thailand during the first two of this year’s Songkran festival’s “seven dangerous days,” a senior transport ministry official said Wednesday. Chamroon Tangpaisalkij, deputy permanent secretary of the transport ministry, said statistics compiled by the Road Safety Centre of the Department […]
University of Hawaii researchers are projecting that the first batch of debris, including construction material, cars, trees, roof tops and household items, could hit Hawaii in about two years U.S. researches say a huge amount of debris from remnants of Japan’s coastal towns swept away in last month’s tsunami is moving across the Pacific Ocean […]
The opposition Pheu Thai Party branded them the “Demon Babies” – and the list of 73 newly chosen senators announced by the Election Commission yesterday did include many with strong links to the 2006 coup-makers’ Council for National Security and defectors from Thaksin Shinawatra’s group. But the group was not deterred. Registering at Parliament, General […]
NARATHIWAT, April 12 – A ten-man military patrol was ambushed in Narathiwat this morning, involving a remote-controlled bomb and gunfire from an undetermined number of assailants. The presumed anti-government insurgents left the site of the incident after the bomb exploded after after apparently failing to function properly. The soldiers who were the intended target were […]
Japan’s nuclear safety agency has raised the crisis level at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to 7, from the current 5. The agency told reporters on Tuesday that large volumes of radioactive substances that could affect human health and the environment are being released in a wide area. Level 7 is the highest […]
Yingluck Shinawatra is expected to be named the Puea Thai Party’s No.1 party-list candidate, giving her an opportunity to become the country’s first female prime minister. A Puea Thai source yesterday said the party’s key figures had travelled to meet former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the party’s main supporter and de facto leader, in Dubai […]
BANGKOK, April 12 — A total of 29 deaths and 400 injuries in 365 Thailand road accidents nationwide was reported for the first day of the Songkran holiday’s “seven dangerous days”, according to Deputy Minister of Interior Thaworn Senneam on Tuesday. Mr Thaworn said according to statistics recorded by the Road Safety Centre, the Department […]
