Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday that the recent clashes with Thailand in the disputed border areas was “a real war”, adding that there would be no more bilateral talks. “This is the real war, not the military clash,” he said while closing the annual conference of the Ministry of Commerce. ” Thailand […]
A brutal Cambodian construction worker, stabbed his co-worker and countryman, right in the heart causing his immediate death, when they were drinking with other workers. Sattahip, 8th January 2011 [PDN]: At 00.30 An illegal Cambodian construction worker brutally killed a member of his drinking party, who was also Cambodian, by stabbing him straight in his […]
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Wednesday hinted he would likely a snap poll within the first six months of this year. “As everything is falling into place, the elections will take place soon,” he said. Abhisit said the economy was revitalised with the projection of this year’s growth rate about four per cent, the […]
The Human Trafficking Suppression Police have cracked down on a brothel in central Suphanburi province, rescuing more than 30 Laotian girls. Human trafficking police said they have arrested 48-year Surapha Pudpa, the owner of a restaurant called ‘Phraew’, along with two staff members, for their involvement in sex trade. Police said a man notified officers […]
BANGKOK, 9 February 2011 (NNT) – The Ministry of Education has ordered a closure of schools and other educational institutes along the Thai-Cambodian border in the wake of the border battles for safety of students and teachers. Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat announced that 62 schools and three other non-formal education centers have been ordered closed […]
Bangkok – Thailand is to send its foreign minister to the UN Security Council in New York next week to give its version of a border conflict with Cambodia, officials said Wednesday. Kasit Piromya is to attend a council meeting on the conflict over disputed land near the 11th-century Preah Vihear border temple, which erupted […]
BANGKOK, Feb 8 — Cambodia on Tuesday handed over a Thai soldier captured during the cross border clash between Thai and Cambodian troops on Saturday morning near the Preah Vihear Temple back to the Thai authorities in Phnom Penh following a request by the Thai Defence Ministry. Lt Gen Nim Sovath, chief of the Defence […]
A Nigerian man and a Thai woman were arrested this morning in a border district of Songkhla province with 25 kilogrammes of marijuana, or ganja, they were taking to Malaysia. Police in Songkhla’s Sadao district said they received a tip off about the couple. Sadao police then intercepted them while they were boarding a local […]
