Districts in five provinces affected Flood-affected districts in Narathiwat, Satun, Trang, Songkhla and Phatthalung were yesterday declared disaster zones as the South was hit by torrential rain. In the province of Songkhla, inundation led to the suspension of train services to the southernmost provinces and beyond. Following four days of torrential rain and rising flood […]
Cambodia will not have time to discuss with Thailand on the deteriorating ties when their leaders meet in the US-Asean Summit in Singapore this weekend, Cambodia’s PM Hun Sen said Wednesday. Hun Sen was speaking after his government rejected a Thai request to extradite fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra. Thai diplomats submitted the request together with supplementary […]
Chiang Rai – Police yesterday morning rounded up 32 North Koreans, including an eightyearold boy, allegedly trying to sneak into Thailand by boat in Chiang Rai’s Chiang Saen district. Police patrolling the Khong River for drug smugglers and human traffickers, spotted three crowded boats delivering people near a riverside restaurant. The boats crossed quickly to […]
NEWLY-crowned Miss Thailand Pongchanok Kunklub has withdrawn for the national taekwondo squad for the Southeast Asian Games in Laos. But I’m not sure she has her priorities in order. In what must have been a gut-wrenching decision, Pongchanok has chosen looks over left hooks and revealed her victory in last weekend’s Miss Thailand pageant has […]
A Hitler billboard in Thailand promoting a local wax museum has locals and foreign governments up in arms. The billboard campaign, which features photos of famous dead people, included a photo of Hitler making the infamous Nazi salute along with the tagline “Hitler is not dead.” The ad was part of a promotion for Louis […]
The Phuket Vegetarian Festival scheduled for 18-26 October this year. Activities include fire walking, the offering of food to the gods and street processions of self-mutilating entranced devotees will also be taking place at different shrines around Phuket. Despite how grizzly it sounds, the festival is expected to attract over half a million spectators this […]
BANGKOK – THOUSANDS arrived in busloads to pray outside a Bangkok hospital on Friday for the swift recovery of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a day after concerns about his health sparked the biggest slide in a year in Thai stock prices. As Thais queued up to sign get-well books at Siriraj Hospital where the world’s […]
Thai women were forced to sell sex, cops say The Cook County sheriff’s police detained three women from Thailand on suspicion they had been coerced to engage in prostitution across the U.S. in the last three weeks as part of an international prostitution ring. The women said operators of the ring confiscated their passports, demanded […]
