Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is calling on Unesco to help defuse the border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia by delisting the Preah Vihear temple as a world heritage site and scrapping a Cambodian management plan for the temple. Mr Abhisit said the two sides had come under pressure because of the listing and the management […]
Airport authorities in Bangkok yesterday (Feb. 9) stopped a man attempting to board a plane with some unusual luggage in tow — three suitcases stuffed full of live animals. The bags were crammed with pythons, boa constrictors, squirrels, spiders, lizards, frogs, a parrot and more than 100 tortoises — including one of the world’s rarest, […]
PC Air, a new Thai airline has hired four transsexuals, including a former beauty queen, as flight attendants. PC Air has already recruited six crew of the “third sex” and boss Peter Chan said recruitment, driven by a belief in equal rights, would continue. Thai airline hires ladyboys as flight attendants by ODNandfinally
BANGKOK, 10 February 2011 (NNT) – The People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) has insisted on visiting Kantharalak district in the border province of Si Sa Ket to give moral support to troops and local villagers affected by the Thai-Cambodian border skirmishes. PAD key figure Major General Chamlong Srimuang has confirmed that the PAD on Friday […]
BANGKOK, Feb 10 — Thai Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban on Thursday reaffirmed the recent Thai-Cambodian border incidents were military clashes, not real war as Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen reportedly said, stressing that bilateral talks were still the best tool for finding a long term solution. Mr Suthep said the Thai government did not […]
BANGKOK, 10 February 2011 (NNT) – The majority of Thai youth do not deem the Valentine’s Day as a day to engage in sexual intercourse and lose their virginity, according to a recent survey by Assumption University Research Center (ABAC Poll). The survey was conducted with 1,256 teenagers aged from 12 to 24 years old […]
Some 2,000 workers are travelling from Rayong to Bangkok on foot to demand fair treatment from their employers. “We will march to the Labour Ministry for a serious round of negotiation,” Maxxis International (Thailand) labour union’s chairman Chairat Bussara said yesterday. The workers started the march on February 1. According to Chairat, Maxxis had made […]
Finally, after years of controversy, the Thai government has made a decision to allow 3G (third generation) mobile phone service in Thailand allowing better voice transmission, faster internet downloading and computing and far better global roaming. The Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT) Telecom awarded deals on January 27 to two of True Corp’s wholly owned […]
