Pheu Thai prime ministerial candidate Yingluck Shinawatra plans on Friday to report for duty as MP following her Tuesday’s balloting endorsement, party spokesman Prompong Nopparit said on Wednesday. Yingluck is expected to personally receive her endorsement at the Election Commission before proceeding to fill her party-list seat at Parliament. Read more: The Nation
PHETCHABURI, July 20 –Some 100 Thai army soldiers began a jungle march operation to locate nine Thai soldiers who were on board the Black Hawk assault helicopter which lost contact and crashed while flying to retrieve the bodies of Saturday’s helicopter crash victims in the vast 3,000 sq km Kaengkrachan National Park in western Phetchaburi […]
BANGKOK, 20 July 2011 (NNT) – 2010 Youth Olympic Games gold medalist Worawong Pongpanich wins a gold medal from the eighth Chucheon Open International Taekwondo Championships 2011, arranged in the Republic of Korea from 14 to 19 July 2011. Ms Worawong, a Thai taekwondo athlete, showed her outstanding performance by beating her rival from Mexico […]
Two Russians wanted on money laundering charges in their country have been arrested in Pattaya. The arrests of Valery Bovsun, 38, and Andrey Ustinov, 40, were announced at a press conference Wednesday at the Immigration Bureau at 11 am. Immigration Bureau Commissioner Pol Lt Gen Wibul Bangthamai said the two were charged with having laundered […]
A Pattaya prison inmate was rushed to hospital on Monday Night in a serious condition after allegedly swallowing a condom full of class 1 drugs which is thought to have split open in his stomach. Prison guards at the Pattaya Remand Prison had earlier taken Khun Daipop aged 27 to Hospital suffering from severe abdominal […]
Thailand’s CAT Telecom will soft-launch its commercial 3G service today and use the My brand. Now CAT has 1,000 subscribers to its third-generation wireless broadband service, who are its employees. It will migrate the 400,000 subscribers of its existing cellular service to 3G over two years. The move follows its deals signed with True Corp […]
Thailand’s election commission endorsed the election to parliament of Pheu Thai leader Yingluck Shinawatra, Tuesday, clearing the way for her to become the nation’s first female prime minister. The commission said it had voted unanimously to dismiss complaints that Yingluck violated election laws by involving banned politicians – including her elder brother – in her […]
PATTANI, July 19 – Two defence volunteers were killed and two others were wounded in a Pattani bombing on Tuesday afternoon. The incident occurred at a deserted house in a Yaring district coconut plantation at a deserted house. Police cut off mobile phone signals in the vicinity to prevent a follow-on attack while they inspected […]
