A jobless 71-year-old woman in Phetchaburi province was more than surprised recently to receive a notice from the Revenue Department ordering her to pay Bt1.7 million tax or face legal action. Pin Siriruang of Ban Lad district complained to authorities, saying she has no job, is poor and too old to work, so how can […]
Public prosecutors are scheduled to present closed-circuit video footage today in the criminal trial of two men charged with participating in the arson that burned down CentralWorld and Zen department store last year. The video is expected to help pinpoint those responsible for setting the shopping centre ablaze during riots after the military moved in […]
BANGKOK, 11 July 2011 (NNT) – Incoming Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has taken her son, Supasek ‘Pipe’ Amornchat, to make his ID card after the law now requires all children aged more than seven years to have their own citizen cards. The incoming prime minister took her nine-year-old son to make his first ID card […]
Yangon – A helicopter serving Myanmar’s offshore gas industry crashed Monday, killing three people, an industry source said. The helicopter carrying a pilot, co-pilot and 10 passengers for Petronas Malaysia crashed in the Andaman Sea soon after taking off from a floating storage facility for the Yetagun gas field, an official who did not want […]
Two passenger trains in India were derailed in separate incidents Sunday, leaving at least 67 people dead and about 200 others injured. All of the fatalities occurred in a derailment in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Rescuers were searching Monday for more survivors in the wreckage of the Kalka Mail train that jumped the […]
Thailand is set for a new “war on drugs” as addiction rates increase and the country’s new president hints at a hard line stance. The equivalent of one in every sixty citizens in Thailand is a methamphetamine user, the head of the country’s anti-drug police told the Guardian. Around 1.1 million Thais will use the […]
Eye witnesses report boat carrying seven travelers capsized in Thailand river. Israeli woman’s body eventually found. An Israeli woman was killed in a rafting accident in Thailand, the Foreign Ministry confirmed Monday. Eye witnesses said that a riverboat carrying seven travelers capsized in a river 60 kilometers from the northern city of Chiang Mai. Read […]
Residents of ten northern provinces of Thailand were Monday warned to brace themselves for possible flash floods this week. The National Disaster Warning Centre announced that the ten provinces would be hit by heavy rains from Monday to Friday, leading to possible flash floods. Read more: The Nation
