Thailand will hold a general election next year, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha told U.S. business leaders at a gala dinner in Washington. Prayuth, who took over the Thai government after leading a military coup that overthrew then-Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in May 2014, did not announce a specific date for polls when he addressed the […]
Huge crowd of people from all walk of life flocked to the Grand Palace today (Oct 5) as it will be the final day that they will be allowed to pay last respects to the beloved late King Bhumibol Adulyadej in front of the golden urn until midnight. The Bureau of the Royal Household said […]
BURIRAM, 5th October 2017, (NNT) – Provinces across the Kingdom are speeding up the construction of crematorium replicas for the Royal Funeral of His Majesty the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej. In Buriram, the replica is 85% complete, with only minor decorating work remaining. Those working on the construction said that they are honored to be […]
Miss Universe Myanmar was stripped of her pageant title after posting a video accusing the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) of causing the ongoing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, according to the beauty queen herself, Shwe Eain Si. The 19-year-old former queen posted the video on Facebook September 24 with the intention of informing netizens […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – The Middle East Eye has published an article about eastern Aleppo which the Syrian army managed to retake from the Islamic State group in December 2016. In the feature, the publication weighs in on the conditions that the Armenian community is living, the school that the children go to and the way they […]
One person was killed and 10 others injured on Thursday morning when a pickup truck was slightly hit by an 18-wheel truck, sending it across the road island only to be hit by a company’s employee van, police said. The accident happened at 6.30am on the Pattaya-bound bypass road in Chon Buri province’s Muang district. […]
PHUKET: Explosive ordnance experts from the Royal Thai Navy base in Phang Nga this afternoon confirmed that the object found on Nai Yang Beach yesterday (Oct 3) is in fact a torpedo, potentially almost a century old. The Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team from the Navy base at Tab Lamu along with the EOD team […]
Red Bull-related KTD Property Development Co on Thursday cancelled its 3-billion-baht beverage plant in Khon Kaen province in the face of strong local opposition to its use of community forest land. A company statement announced an end to construction and closure of the plant in tambon Ban Dong of Ubonrat district, which was planned to […]
