Four Thai soldiers were killed and eight others wounded, one of them seriously, in a five-hour clash with Cambodian soldiers on the border in Phanom Dong Rak district of Surin province on Friday morning, deputy army spokeswoman Sirichan Ngathong said. Col Sirichan said the fighting began about 6.30am on the border between the Ta Kwai […]
BANGKOK, 22 April 2011 (NNT) – The global gold price will possibly hit a new high of 1,600 US dollars per ounce by the end of the year while the domestic price may rocket to 22,000 baht per one-baht weight in the third quarter. YLG Bullion and Futures CEO Tipa Nawawattanasup stated that the gold […]
BANGKOK, 22 April 2011 (NNT) – Fresh clashes along the Thai-Cambodian border in Surin province have forced an evacuation of over 6,000 locals to safe places while Thai troops have sustained 3 fatalities and 13 injuries so far. After a new round of border shooting erupted between Thai and Cambodian soldiers near Surin’s Ta Kwai […]
SURIN, April 22 – Eight Thai soldiers were wounded in a renewed border clash with Cambodian troops near the Ta Kwai temple in Surin on Friday morning. Three artillery shells fired by Cambodian troops fell on the Thai side of the border in Phanom Dong Rak district, causing wounds among eight Thai military personnel. The […]
Bangkok – It certainly had all the hallmarks of coup time in Thailand. On Thursday evening, there was an unexplained blackout of national television, sparking mass speculation that yet another military coup was in the offing. Past coups have always been preceded by military seizures of radio and television stations, so Thursday’s TV blackout – […]
Thai Police are investigating the discovery of a dismembered male body yesterday at a garbage disposal in a major market in Pathum Thani. The torso of the male victim, cut from waist to upper legs, was found in a cardboard box at Four City Corners Market in Lam Luk Ka district by a garbage collector. […]
An American man found dead in his rented apartment suffering from a severe head wound. Pattaya, 19th April 2011 [PDN]: At 7.30 p.m., Police General, Ittipond Poetong was informed that an American man had died in his rented apartment. When the police arrived at the scene, they discovered the body of Mr. Rankan Singha, 43, […]
A federal agency that enforces equal employment laws has sued six Hawaii farms and a California-based labor contracting company, alleging they discriminated against Thai farm workers and forced them to endure more deplorable working conditions than other non-Thai workers. Hawaii farms named in the civil lawsuit, filed Wednesday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission […]
