Thailand’s CAT Telecom is in talks with TrueMove on the latter’s plan to buy back its cellular network, which TrueMove has reportedly proposed to buy for about Bt10 billion. CAT chief executive officer Jirayuth Rungsrithong said a CAT panel is in talks with TrueMove on the matter. The talks are in line with the recent […]
Thai authorities freed 71 women and girls who had been lured into selling sex in massage parlors and karaoke bars, police said, after a crackdown on human trafficking on the Malaysian border Thirteen of those discovered were girls under the age of 18, said Lieutenant Colonel Noppadon Petsut, deputy commander of police in Sadao district […]
Outgoing Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva warned Election Commission members to speak more carefully in order to avoid putting the military in an awkward position. Although Mr Abhisit did not specify any people or incidents, he was almost certainly referring to Sodsri Satayathum, an EC member who on Saturday warned red shirts pressuring the EC to […]
NARATHIWAT, July 31 – A man was killed and another wounded in a shooting at a market in Narathiwat, Thailand on Sunday, while the owner of a rubber plantation lost his leg in a booby trap explosion in the restive province. A 34-year-old man, identified as Sapaeing Yako, 34, was shot dead at a Sunday’s […]
BANGKOK, 31 July 2011 (NNT) – Thailand’s Permanent Secretary for Public Health MD. Paijit Warachit has revealed a new record high of people contracting Leptospirosis. The statistics has prompted health officials to inform people to avoid walking barefooted in the muddy fields. According to Dr. Paijit, the number of patients has reached 1,043 patients during […]
The 14 train services to the three southernmost provinces resumed Saturday after being suspended, pending repairs after bomb attacks on Wednesday in Narathiwat’s Ra Ngae district. The Southern Railway Office also beefed up security by having five fully-armed railway police and security volunteers onboard each train, while security officers also patrolled the route prior to […]
PHICHIT, July 30 – Thailand’s northern provinces on Saturday are in preparation for possible floods from the upcoming tropical storm ‘Nock-Ten’ which is forecast to move into Thailand after making landfall in Vietnam tonight. In the lower northern province of Phichit, Governor Suwit Watcharotayangkul visited riverside areas and monitored water level in two major waterways: […]
PATTANI, July 30 — Two forensics staff injured after one triggered an explosive device when stepping on a landmine, while inspecting a vacated Pattani military camp which was attacked last night. A team of forensics specialists from Royal Thai Army’s Region 4 Ingkayut Borihan military camp in Pattani this morning inspected the crime scene at […]
