BANGKOK, Jan 10 (TNA) — Thailand’s Deputy Public Health Minister Manit Nop-amornbodi announced Sunday that he had resigned from his post following government pressure and a public outcry over alleged ‘management flaws” in the ministry’s projects under the Bt86 billion stimulus packages. His immediate superior Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai quit the post on December […]
5,000 Troops, Police To Keep Order At Udd Mountain Protest NAKHON RATCHASIMA : Villagers who occupy land on Khao Yai Thiang are undaunted by a prosecution ruling against privy councillor Surayud Chulanont’s right to hold a 22-rai property there. The Surayud land-holding scandal has triggered speculation that the state will evict villagers occupying the forest […]
Ubon Ratchathani – A flight of Thai Airways International from this northeastern province to Bangkok was aborted and the planed had to make an emergency landing after its cockpit’s windshield cracked and an engine stopped. No one was injured when the flight TG0303 made an emergency landing at the Ubon Ratchathani airport shortly after it […]
Southwest Thailand, home to the resort islands of Phuket and Phi Phi, has battled back from the devastation of 2004’s powerfully destructive tsunami. Travel writer Beverly Beyette, who visited a year after the tsunami, returned again recently. Rebuilt and new hotels abound, and boats travel the Andaman coast, ferrying day-trippers to such destinations as Koh […]
OTTAWA — Canada is accusing the Thai government of flouting international law by sending UN-designated refugees back to their home country of Laos. Last week, Thailand deported about 4,500 ethnic Hmong, despite pleas from human-rights organizations and oft-stated concerns from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The group included 158 people officially designated as […]
Kate Moss and Jamie Hince were all loved up as they frolicked on the beach and in the waves of Thailand yesterday. Kate recently revealed her down-to-earth beauty tips along with some of the secrets to her career success — this annual trip is another way she stays refreshed and ready to conquer the year. […]
BANGKOK, Jan 6 (TNA) – An Iranian man on Wednesday was arrested at Thailand’s main international airport for smuggling 42 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as “ice”, worth over Bt17 million (about US$500,000), into the kingdom. Customs Department Director-General Somchai Sajjapong inspected the impounded drugs seized from 33-year-old Ghanavatirajabnejad Keyvan in the international arrival […]
ALAPPUZHA: Revenue Minister K P Rajendran said here on Monday that the LDF Government would provide land to all landless people in the State before the fourth anniversary of the LDF Government. Taluklevel pattaya melas will also be organised before May 18. The minister was inaugurating the district-level pattaya mela here on Monday. Land will […]
