BANGKOK, April 26 – A group of albino wallabies, restricted kangaroo-like animals imported from Australia, have been brought from Thailand’s Northeast to the Thai capital’s Dusit Zoo for Thais to admire until the end of June. Wallabies are a species in the kangaroo family, a distinctive form of Australia’s native wildlife. Read more: MCOT
BANGKOK, 25 April 2013 (NNT) – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration announced plans to reduce the BTS Skytrain’s fare on the extension lines to 10 baht. Deputy Bangkok governor Amorn Kijchawengkul said the flat 15-baht rate on the extension lines running from On Nut to Bearing and Taksin to Phetchakasem will be revised down in a […]
At 1pm yesterday, a Bangkok police officer suspected of a brutal rape fled the Thong Lor station right before Samut Prakan investigators raided his workplace to execute an arrest warrant against him. Police went on the hunt for Pol Sub Lt Thatree Suebsaman, 53, after Nattanan Wongpracharat, a 32-year-old noodle vendor, brought a Laotian worker […]
Salisa Phruttitum, a novelist and former reporter at The Nation, was found dead in her condominium in Bangkok’s Thonglor area yesterday. Born in 1972, Salisa spent her childhood in the US. She studied at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and graduated with a degree in economics from Northwestern University. She returned to Thailand in […]
During the past year, 186 cases of suspected tuberculosis have been found at more than 800 night venues in Bangkok, of which 24 have been confirmed. “If we can identify TB at its early stage, there’s a good chance of full recovery and of preventing the spread of the disease,” Somsak Akksilp, deputy director-general of […]
BANGKOK, April 22 – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is speeding projects to promote reading among the the people of the Thai capital, as the metropolis is to be officially designated World Book Capital, according to Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra. The biggest project is the capital library museum which will be located at the present City […]
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is set to speed up the city’s fight against narcotics. BMA advisor Police General Wichai Sangprapai said that according to a recent study, there are a total of 1.2 million drug addicts in the capital, most of whom are dependent on methamphetamine. The spread of drug use in the metropolitan area […]
BANGKOK, April 21 – Two Army privates were wounded in an explosion of an M79 recoilless anti-tank rocket during maintenance cleaning duties of the military weapons at the 3rd infantry battalion in Dusit district. The incident occurred around 11 am Sunday in the compound of the 1st infantry regiment. The injured were sent to Phramongkutklao […]
