Thailand is set to lose its ranking as the world’s secondlargest coconut exporter and become a net importer as drought has damaged growing areas. For more than four years, Prachuap Khiri Khan, the country’s most important area for coconut cultivation, has been hit by drought. The province now has only about 400,000 rai (64,000 hectares) […]
TOT executives are doubtful that the state agency can press charges against Advanced Info Service (AIS) regarding controversial amendments to concession deals and telecom excise tax. Doubt lingers even though TOT has demanded damages from AIS to the tune of more than Bt74 billion. A TOT executive, who asked not to be named, said the […]
BANGKOK, 4 February 2011 (NNT)-Police General Wichean Potphosri instructed police during their security training yesterday to guard the Government House and the Parliament, the two important institutions, to the best of their ability. 9 police batches participated in the training which was aimed at responding to protesters under various circumstances. It included strategies ranging from […]
Narcotics Suppression officers have arrested seven suspected drug traffickers in separate busts this week, seizing a combined eight kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, or “ice”, and 100,000 amphetamine pills. The seven include two Malaysian nationals, two Hmong, a Burmese, a Nigerian and a Cambodian, NSB chief Atithep Panjamanond said yesterday. Bangkok Post
An unpleasant shock awaited an Englishman out on the town when he returned in the early hours to find his room ransacked and valuables worth 200, 000 THB, carefully concealed in his luggage, to have been stolen. Pattaya 2nd January 2011 [PDN] At approximately 03.00 Police Lieutenant Nattawat Srithongphet, investigation official, Police Station Pattaya, was […]
CHIANG MAI, Thailand — If bathroom graffiti is any measure of a go-go bar’s depravity, then the “Can Do” bar is rather chaste. Girl-power slogans are scrawled on the walls in pink magic marker. Above the toilet, the blue-ink scribble gets unusually political for a go-go bar: “Vote no – crazy constitution in Burma!” In […]
Pattani – Five Buddhists, including a senior education official, were killed in a gun attack by muslim insurgents in this southern border province Thursday morning. The attack at a Buddhist village in Tambon Kokkrabua in Panare district at 6:30 am also saw five other Buddhists injured. One of the injured is a 12-year-old student. The […]
BANGKOK, Feb 3 – An alleged Malaysian drug smuggler on Thursday was arrested in possession of 1.6 kilos of crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as ‘ice,’ at Suvarnabhumi Airport, according to Thai police. Neoh Bee Geok, a Malaysian Chinese woman, was detained at Thailand’s main international airport with 1.6kg of the illicit drug hidden in a […]
