Workers protest at Labour Ministry on lack of post-flood employment

BANGKOK, Feb 2 – Laid off workers whose jobs were casualties of the recent floods carried their protest to the Ministry of Labour Thursday after their employers neither had clear policies nor gave them answers about further employment during the post-flood period. Over 200 workers from Altum Precision Co in Ayutthaya’s previously flooded Hi-Tech Industrial […]

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Gambling den ‘in Bangkok railway police area’

One of the gambling dens revealed by politician Chuwit Kamolvisit is located in the jurisdiction of the Railway Police, not the Metropolitan Police Bureau, a senior metropolitan police commander said yesterday. Railway Police have been contacted and informed of the den, said Pol MajGeneral Pachara Bunyasit, commander of the Metropolitan Police Division 1. “If there […]

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Bangkok Chatuchak market to be turned into night plaza

BANGKOK, 30 January 2012 (NNT) – Transport Minister Charupong Ruangsuwan has announced the project to develop the world’s largest weekend market Chatuchak Market in Bangkok as a night plaza to welcome the increasing number of foreign tourists. The newly-appointed transport minister on Monday assured a group of Chatuchak Weekend Market vendors, who were congratulating him […]

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