All 7-Eleven convenience stores will close from mid-afternoon on Oct 26 and wholesaler Makro’s branches will also close early, the companies said on Monday. The Charoen Pokphand Group announced its 7-Eleven stores will close from 2.30pm to midnight on the day of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s cremation. Full story: Bangkok Post BANGKOK POST ONLINE […]
Typhoon Khanun has weakened to tropical storm with its centre now at 390 kilometres east of Hanoi, the Meteorological Department said on Monday morning (Oct 16). In its forecast issued at 5.00am today, Khanun has weakened from typhoon to tropical storm with wind speed of 111 kilometres an hour in its centre and is moving […]
People in several Central Plains provinces have begun bearing the brunt of the Chao Phraya River overflow. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) plans to set up operation centres in flood-prone areas so that help can be provided to victims without delay. Full story: Bangkok Post BANGKOK POST ONLINE REPORTERS
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) would like to provide the following updates as the entire nation prepares to pay a final tribute to the beloved late King Bhumibol Adulyadej on the Royal Cremation Ceremony Day, on 26 October. Temporary closure of businesses and attractions: – All banks will be closed on 26 October. – […]
BANGKOK, 16th October 2017 (NNT) – The Minister of Commerce has revealed Thailand and Ukraine have agreed to increase mutual trade and investment as well as overall engagement via the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). Commerce Minister, Aphiradee Tantraporn made known after a courtesy visit by the Ambassador of Ukraine to Thailand, that Thailand and Ukraine […]
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and other world leaders condemned the truck-bomb attack in the Somalian capital that killed at least 276 people and injured some 300. In a Twitter post on October 15, Guterres said he was “sickened” by the attack and urged “unity in the face of terrorism.” Somalia’s government has blamed the […]
Brown spotted pit viper, a kind of venomous snake, has been found in the northern province of Nan, according to a report to the Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute under the Thai Red Cross Society. With a scientific name of protobothrops mucrosquamatus, it is high on the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s list of poisonous snakes in […]
Chiang Mai police on Monday arrested two Chinese women who allegedly used fake passports to sit for a TOEFL exam on behalf of paying clients. Jing Su, 22, and Jiang Jiang Xuan, 26 – the spellings a transliteration of their names from Thai as police heard them – were charged with using fake passport and […]
