PATONG tuk-tuk drivers staged a mass protest today that is likely to succeed – and reverse the direction of the west coast fun-town’s much-debated and abused one-way system. With protest signs stuck to tuk-tuks along beach road, about 50 drivers and 30 tuk-tuks blocked traffic around Kathu police station – which oversees Patong – to […]
The Appeals Court Friday commuted the jail term of convicted Canadian paedophile from six years to five years and four months. The court upheld the guilty ruling of Christopher Paul Neil, 35, an English-language teacher. Neil was convicted in luring a nine-year-old boy to have sex with him at his room in Bangkok’s Din Daeng […]
An assistant undertaker at Wat Phai Ngern Chotanaram has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for conspiring to hide and dispose of 2,002 aborted foetuses. The sentencing followed charges laid after the discovery of thousands of foetus remains at the Bangkok temple in November last year. The South Bangkok Criminal Court yesterday sentenced Suchart […]
BANGKOK, 28 Janaury 2011 (NNT)-Marine experts have recently congregated at Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre to brainstorm for coral reef bleaching solutions, expecting to propose them to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva for consideration as soon as next month. A biology lecturer from the Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkhla University, Sakanand Plathong, said the meeting […]
True Corp is likely to see upside earnings surprise from a new revenue-sharing rate with CAT Telecom, over the 3G service, according to DBS Vickers Securities (Thailand). Its subsidiary, TrueMove, is currently paying CAT Telecom 25 per cent of its service income as concession fee, and this will rise to 30 per cent after Oct […]
PATTANI, Jan 28 – A bomb blast wounded one monk and three soldiers escorting the monk during his morning alms receiving circuit on Friday in Pattani’s provincial seat. The remote-controlled explosive device, weighing about seven kilogrammes, was hidden in an iron box and placed at a base of an electricity power pole. It was triggered […]
Thai private and state sectors are working together to promote Thailand’s first use of ED95 fuel by large passenger buses. The move is intended to help the country achieve its 15-year alternative energy development goal and become the world’s ethanol export center in the future. The Energy Ministry and the Industry Ministry have signed an […]
While the number of protesters was far from their peak of the past few years, the yellow shirts provided all the other ingredients for a deja vu when they returned to their familiar spot near Government House yesterday. In fact, the Abhisit government must have felt something eerily familiar as it suggested it was not […]
