Fire rages at Bangkok’s Bang Khun Thian mattress factory. Firefighters bring the blaze under control, no deaths or injuries. The Bangkok fire department classified as “under control” the fire that broke out at a mattress factory in Bang Khun Thian district. MCOT
Flight congestion at Suvarnabhumi Airport will ease after the eastern runway returned to service at 11am yesterday for all types of planes except A380 super jumbos. Anirut Thanomkulbutra, president of Airports of Thailand, said the repaving of the 870-metre northern tarmac of the eastern runway from Sections B6-B3 has been completed. Read more: The Nation
Two men were arrested in the Bangkhuntian area of Bangkok for using counterfeit banknotes printed on A4 paper from a computer printer. The fake bills were in 100-baht and 1,000-baht denominations. The men had printed out two batches of fake bills and had been using or selling them before being caught. Read more: Pattayadailynews.com
BANGKOK, July 17- A shipment of 158 pieces of contraband ivory with a street value of Bt22.8 million (some US$760,000) was seized at Thailand’s main international airport, according to a senior customs officer. A quantity of elephant tusks, hidden in six suspicious wooden crates, was confiscated at a warehouse inside on Suvarnabhumi Airport July 13 […]
BANGKOK, July 17 – Twenty-nine schools run by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) were closed Tuesday due to the spread of the hand, foot and mouth disease, according to a senior BMA Department of Health official. Communicable Disease Control Division director Wongwat Liulak said that 18 schools are totally closed while 11 schools suspended some […]
BANGKOK, 17 July 2012 (NNT) – Bangkok Deputy Governor Theerachon Manomaipiboon has revealed that the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is collaborating with Samut Prakan province in an effort to prevent flooding this year. A discussion has been held between Mr. Theerachon and Mr. Chonsawat Asavahame, Chief of the Samut Prakan Provincial Administrative Organization, to establish […]
BANGKOK, 16 July 2012 (NNT) – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra traveled to Suvarnabhumi Airport this morning to be briefed on the airport runway repair, which has been affecting the air traffic in the country since the closure of its eastern runway. According to the Prime Minister, the closure has forced many flights to land […]
BANGKOK – A Spanish man who was working in Thailand committed suicide while surfing a popular social network website early Thursday morning, police said. Pol Lt Col Apichan Swasdibutra, an investigating officer at Huay Kwang station, said police were informed that a foreigner had died in an apartment on Ratchadaphisek Road. The foreigner was named […]
