Two Pathumwan Institute of Technology (PTWIT) students – a boy and a girl – were shot and wounded Tuesday near their home in Bangkok’s Bang Kapi district by two men on a motorcycle, an incident police theorised was based on school rivalry. Sattawat Wongphrome is safe but girlfriend Wilai Nathakaranont is in a critical condition […]
BANGKOK, 12 July 2011 (NNT) – The South Bangkok Criminal Court has summoned a witness for testimony in the case related to red-shirt security guards’ arson attack on Central World Shopping Complex in May 2010. The South Bangkok Criminal Court today held a hearing for the arson case lodged by the prosecutor on 1 September […]
BANGKOK, 12 July 2011 (NNT) – The Ministry of Culture has invited Buddhists to practice dhamma upon the Asalha Puja Day and the Buddhist Lent Day while the ministry and related organisations will be arranging the Buddhism Promotion Week from 13 to 15 July 2011. According to Religious Affairs Department Director-General Sod Daeng-Ied, his department […]
Two minor earthquakes, 3.4 and 3.5 on the Richter Scale, rattled Myanmar just a little while ago. The epicenter was 18 kilometers away from Mae Sai District of Chiang Rai Province. No injuries have been reported. Read more: TAN Network
A Melbourne teacher was treated in hospital after her car was allegedly shot at during a school trip in the north of Thailand. Two teachers, from Ringwood Secondary College, were travelling in a car near Chiang Mai when the front windscreen shattered on Sunday. One of the teachers, Lynda Cody, suffered a minor injury to […]
CHON BURI, July 12 – The second deployment of the Royal Thai Navy anti-piracy unit with 368 naval personnel left Thailand Tuesday morning to join the international operations countering piracy off the coast of Somalia for a 140-day deployment in the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea. Royal Thai Navy Commander-in-Chief Adm Kamthorn Pumhiran […]
BANGKOK, 12 July 2011 (NNT) – The last cabinet meeting under the administration of outgoing Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is taking place today, according to Deputy Secretary-General to the Prime Minister and Acting Government Spokesperson Panitan Watanayagorn. High on the agenda are the extension of the emergency decree in the three southernmost provinces for another […]
A van transporting students from Bangkok back to Yala crashed with a ten-wheel truck, killing seven students and the van driver and injuring eight other students Tuesday, police said. The accident happened at 12:30 pm on the Asia Highway in Tambon Klong Channuan of Surat Thani’s Wiang Sa district. Read more: The Nation
