BANGKOK, Jan 21 – Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij on Thursday denied a report that top Singapore Telecom (SingTel) executives lobbied him to help resolve Advanced Info Service (AIS) concession issues. The executives from SingTel, which owns 21 per cent of AIS, met with Information and Communications Technology Minister Chuti Krairiksh on Jan 11 and with […]
BANGKOK, 21 January 2011 (NNT) – There have already been five provinces facing drought and 37 provinces declared cold-spell disaster zones, according to the latest report of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM). DDPM Director-General Viboon Sanguanpong reported that droughts had hit 36 districts in five provinces including two in the North, another […]
BANGKOK, Jan 22 – Five Thai nationals released by the Cambodian court arrived in their homeland Saturday evening, while the Thai foreign ministry expressed hope that similar good news will happen with the other two Thais who remain in the neighbouring kingdom. The five Thais, including Democrat MP for Bangkok Panich Vikitsreth, Naruemol Chitwaratana, 2nd […]
THAILAND – THE Airports Authority of Thailand on Friday approved a Bt4 billion (S$167 million) budget to compensate residents living near Suvarnabhumi airport who have been affected by excessive noise from passenger jets’ engines during take-offs and landings. The approval has reportedly been influenced by a sit-in protest by around 200 residents at a gate […]
Bangkok, January 21, 2011–The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about the charges and threatened deportation of Thailand-based freelance photojournalists John Sanlin, a Burmese passport holder, and Pascal Schatterman, a Belgian national. “We call on Thai authorities to reconsider the deportation of journalists John Sanlin and Pascal Schatterman and take into consideration the prospect […]
Thai Telecom operator DTAC will be offering trial services for third-generation, or 3G, mobile phone service in Bangkok in the third quarter of this year. Thana Thienachariya, the executive vice president for Corporate Affairs and Chief Strategy Officer of Total Access Communication company, or DTAC, is expecting that it will take a long time to […]
This message alerts U.S. citizens traveling to or residing in Thailand that the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (aka UDD, or the “red-shirts”) plans to hold a demonstration in Bangkok on Sunday, January 23. Scheduled from approximately 1:00 pm to midnight, the demonstration is to begin at the Rajaprasong area (around Central World) and […]
Eighteen popular diving sites will be closed in Thailand for up to 14 months to allow coral damaged by bleaching to recover. Over 80% of the coral at each diving site had been damaged, National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department chief Sunan Arunnoparat said yesterday. Bleaching, or a whitening of coral as it loses […]
