Thai Govt emphasises need for detailed negotiation The prime minister said again in his weekly broadcast address yesterday that his government believed that a lasting solution to the border dispute could only come through careful negotiation. Association of Southeast Asian Nations foreign ministers meet in Jakarta tomorrow to find ways to solve the border dispute, […]
Fourteen teachers were killed and 23 others injured when their bus plunged into a roadside ravine Monday, police said. The accident happened in Nan’s Song Kwae district at about 7:30 am. The 32 teachers were traveling from Ban Dai School in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district on an education trip to Thung Chang district. They […]
MORE boatpeople are reported to be sailing south as doubts are being cast on Thailand’s version of how 91 Rohingya who originally landed in Thailand ended up 700 kilometres away in Indian territory. The boatload of men and boys first landed on the Andaman coast, south of Phuket, before being trucked to Ranong, north of […]
CHiANG MAI, 20 February 2011 (NNT) – The Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited (AOT) disclosed a growing number of tourists in Chiang Mai province during the first quarter of this year as a result of tourism strategy and excellent weather. Director of Chiang Mai Airport Ms Raweewan Natarakavessana,the number of tourists has increased by […]
Red-shirt leader Jatuporn Promphan told an estimated 20,000 red-shirt demonstrators Saturday the group would hold an even bigger rally on March 12 if hundreds of detained red shirts, including seven of its leaders, were not granted bail next week. March 12 marks the beginning of last year’s red-shirt rally, which ended in violent riots with […]
NARATHIWAT, Feb 20 – Seventeen persons were wounded by a shooting and car bomb by presumed muslim insurgents Saturday night in the trouble-plagued southern province of Narathiwat. The first incident occurred at a karaoke restaurant where two female workers were injured in a shooting late Saturday night. Half an hour later, while the police were […]
BANGKOK, 20 February 2011 (NNT)-Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva denied an allegation by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) that he was a British national. The Prime Minister has expressed his confidence that by law he has had Thai citizenship ever since he was born even though the place of birth was in England. […]
The Philippine government is helping a Filipina jailed in Thailand for being a “drug mule,” with a Philippine official visiting her at her Bangkok jail last week and presenting her with at least two options. Department of Foreign Affairs Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs (DFA-OUMWA) executive director Enrico Fos said they are […]
