Pattaya melas to be over before May 18

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 […]

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Thai Annual Inflation Accelerates In December

(RTTNews) – Thailand’s consumer price annual inflation stood at 3.5% in December, up from November’s 1.9%, the Commerce Ministry reported Monday. Headline inflation in Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy turned positive in November after nine months of deflation. However, the annual rate stayed below the consensus forecast of 3.7%. Core annual inflation was 0.2% in December […]

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Worrying rise in Thai youth suicides

Suicide has become the fourth major cause of death from injury as young people increasingly take their own lives. Paijit Warachit, permanent secretary of the Public Health Ministry, said yesterday that the Bureau of Epidemiology’s injury watch in 2008 found that 30 major hospitals’ emergency rooms had admitted 7,237 people suffering from self-inflicted injuries with […]

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