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 […]
Chiang Mai and Chanthaburi recorded the most New Year holiday road deaths while Yasothon is the only province with zero accidents and no deaths. Overall, the number of deaths and injuries in road accidents during the first six of the seven-day New Year holidays this year was down on the same period last year. The […]
Phuket’s Governor Vichai Praisa-ngob in the first press conference of the year 2010 which was held yesterday (4 Jan), further than report the conclusion of the sea and road safety accident reduction and prevention campaign during the long holiday, talked about his accomplishment thought 8 months in duty and expressed his thanks for everyone’s support […]
An increasing number of North Korean refugees are arriving in northern Thailand, fleeing poverty and political oppression at home. Two North Koreans turn away as a group of journalists and refugee activists attempt to talk to them. They were spotted on the side of the road along Thailand’s border with Laos. Several more ran as […]
Abhisit Vejjajiva plans to convene a working group to find a way to “smoothly” cancel the online lottery. The prime minister said he was deeply concerned about the social problems the lottery could cause. “I do not want the online lottery but I must solve the problem of obligations under the contract,” Mr Abhisit said. […]
(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 […]
A total of 686 road accidents happened on New Year Day, the fourth day of the seven dangerous New Year holidays, killing 70 victims, causing the accumulated road death to climb to 238. The centre for prevention road accidents during the New Year holidays announced that 737 people were injured in road accidents on the […]
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 […]
