A Thai court has ordered the crew of a cargo plane transporting weapons from North Korea to remain in jail for 12 more days. The five crew members, consisting of one Belarus national and four Kazakh nationals, were arrested in mid-December after their cargo plane was seized during a stop in Bangkok. The plane was […]
BANGKOK: Thailand will begin repatriating more than 4,000 ethnic Hmong refugees to Laos on Monday despite strong international opposition to the move, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Saturday. The New York-based international rights group said that armed forces had been mobilised for the deportation from a camp in northern Phetchabun province where the Hmong […]
Repeating his claim of last week, Jatuporn said a memorandum on Thai-Cambodian ties, classified as secret and sent from Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, was purportedly a plot to assassinate Thaksin. “The term “get rid of” is a codeword for killing,” he said, claiming such a codeword is commonly understood by […]
Pattaya, Chon Buri – A German tourist was killed by a speeding pickup while he was crossing a road in this seaside town early Tuesday, police said. W. L., 55, ws hit and killed at the mouth of Soi Naklua 1 Road off the Pattaya-Naklua Road in Bang Lamung district at 2:30 am. Read more: […]
BANGKOK, Dec 20 (TNA) — Thai authorities have apprehended two foreign men in the capital and charged them with allegedly possessing heroin, said Somchai Sujjapongse, director-general of the Customs Department. Raza Mahtab, 21, of Pakistan was nabbed early Saturday upon arrival at Suvarnabhumi international airport from Islamabad after customs officials found about 619 grammes of […]
PB Air will shut down the business on December 21, due to the economic crisis. Liquidator Songsak Phaktachai said the airline also does not have enough aircraft and due to losses could not lease airplane. He insisted that the company would pay compensation to all 188 staff. The scheme would be clear within 7 days. […]
BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand (Reuters) – Suvadee Sukkasem is still searching for her son who vanished when the Indian Ocean tsunami turned this tropical paradise into a mass grave for thousands of Thais and foreign vacationers nearly five years ago. Although the sea now frightens her, she refuses to leave her beachside village in southern […]
The Thai government is being urged to investigate a businessman who allegedly moved more than 20 Padaung so-called “long necks” from their homes in northern Thailand to become a tourist attraction near Chiang Mai. The Karen Network for Culture and Environment (KNCE), based in Chiang Mai, announced on Thursday that it would write to Thai […]
