Deputy Commerce Minister Alongkorn Ponlaboot today said Total Access Communication (DTAC) has breached foreign business law. Alongkorn also recommended the Business Development Department to file charges against seven corporate shareholders of DTAC, believed to hold shares in DTAC on behalf of foreigners. Read more: The Nation
NARATHIWAT, July 11 – A Muslim religious leader and his wife on Monday were gunned down while riding their motorcycle to work in violence-plagued Narathiwat’s Rangae district, while three bombings occurred overnight at two locations in Yala, wounding one local resident and nine government personnel. While Imam Mama Samao, 49, and his wife were on […]
Three eligible voters who were denied the right to vote on July 3 submitted a petition to the Supreme Court’s Election Cases Division on Monday, asking that it to order a new general election. They are Surasit Bailee, Siripanee Taichaiyaphum and Parinee Taichaiyaphum, all of Non Klang village in tambon Phak Pang of Chaiyaphum’s Phu […]
The director of Pheu Thai’s branch in Uttaradit Province has been attacked. Suspects using AKA rifles opened fire on his home, riddling his car and the front of his house with bullet holes. No injuries have been reported. TAN Network
Chon Buri – When a protest by Cambodian workers at a chicken slaughter factory in Chon Buri’s Nong Yai district on Sunday got out of control, police reinforcements were brought in and four of their cars were damaged. The Cambodians were angry that Thai workers who injured a number of Cambodians in an earlier fistfight […]
BANGKOK, 11 July 2011 (NNT) – The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has scheduled 19 core leaders of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) alleged of lèse majesté to hear their charges on 17 August. After conferring with the prosecutor, DSI chief Tharit Pengdit revealed that he had notified 17 of the 19 […]
BANGKOK, 11 July 2011 (NNT) – Chart Thai Pattana Party Chief Advisor Banharn Silpa-archa has acceded that he recently met former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra but denies bargaining for more cabinet seats for his party. Mr Banharn confirmed that he had traveled to Brunei to visit Mr Thaksin as acquaintances and they only had a […]
BANGKOK, 11 July 2011 (NNT)-The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, together with the Ministry of Culture, is encouraging Thais to wear clothes made of silk on various occasions to boost the silk industry in Thailand. Director-General of the Department of Sericulture Pairoj Limjamroon said there are currently 30,000 silk manufacturers in the country. The number […]
