Suvarnabhumi Airport launches automatic passport check

BANGKOK, 12 April 2012 (NNT) – Suvarnabhumi Airport, on Wednesday, launched the automatic passport checking system, which will facilitate a faster passenger flow through immigration channels. According to Immigration Police Chief Pol Lt Gen Wiboon Bangthamai, the Immigration Bureau has started utilizing the automatic passport checking service in order to cut down the time needed […]

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Red Shirts mark 2nd anniversary of Bangkok clashes

BANGKOK, April 11 – The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), Thailand’s so-called Red Shirt movement, on Wednesday assembled near the Democracy Monument on Rajdamnoen Avenue to mark the 2nd anniversary of their deadly protests against the then Abhisit Vejjajiva administration. UDD leader Thida Thavornseth, together with other protest leaders Natthawut Saikua, Jatuporn Prompan, […]

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Crater in downtown Bangkok road disrupts traffic

BANGKOK, April 11 – A crater appeared in center city Bangkok’s busy Pathumwan intersection Wednesday morning, with city authorities initially saying the depression was believed to be caused by soil and sand under the road surface moving into a large drainage pipe. Bangkok Deputy Governor Teerachon Manomaiphibul and drainage, sewerage and public works department officials […]

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