Key member arrested over airport seizures A key member of the People’s Alliance for Democracy has been arrested on outstanding charges stemming from the movement’s seizure in 2008 of Bangkok’s two commercial airports. The arrest last night comes as the PAD announced it is planning a major rally on Saturday to try to force the […]
BANGKOK, 2 February 2011 (NNT) – The number of patients infected with influenza A (H1N1) has risen to 470 people, with two fatalities, in January 2011 alone, according to the Department of Disease Control (DDC), the Ministry of Public Health. DDC Director-General MD Manit Teeratantikanont stated that although the H1N1 spread situation in the country […]
BANGKOK, 3 February 2011 (NNT)-The UDD or Red Shirt has launched a handbook on anti-coup d’etat with an aim to give their members a crash course on how to respond to the military coup. Acting Red Shirt Leader Thida Thawornsate has said that Thailand would not be any different than Myanmar if the government was […]
BANGKOK, Feb 2 — Thailand’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said it would send a second special flight to collect some one hundred Thai nationals caught in riot-torn Egypt on Thursday. Ministry spokesman Thani Thongpakdi said 2,600 Thais remain in Egypt, but about 100 of them, mainly students and workers, asked the ministry to help bring […]
WLB Urges the Thai Government to Ensure the Protection of Civilians Fleeing Conflict (Thai-Burma Border, Thailand – 1 February 2011) A mother and two young boys seeking refuge in Thailand have been seriously injured by shrapnel from mortars that landed across the Thai-Burma border on Sunday 30 January. The three injured are refugees from Karen […]
BANGKOK, 2 February 2011 (NNT) – The Pollution Control Department has reported that air pollution within Bangkok has reached a critical level while a pollution reduction plan will be drawn to tackle the problem. Dr Wijarn Simachaya, Deputy Director General of the Pollution Control Department, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, revealed statistics from a […]
He has made an incredible recovery after treatment at a psychiatric hospital in Bangkok. And remarkably it was a private British citizen who came to his aid after seeing pictures of Hewitt up on this website. The British Embassy had seemingly written him off as either a ‘feckless’ Brit or perhaps as one Embassy employee […]
Phnom Penh – A Cambodian court on Tuesday sentenced Thai political activist Veera Somkwamkit to eight years in jail on charges of spying, crossing the border and illegally entering a military base. The Municipal Court in Phnom Penh jailed Veera’s secretary, Ratree Taiputana, for six years on the same charges. The two also received fines […]
