Bangkok’s 1,200 riverside households located outside the flood barrier were bracing for flood conditions Tuesday night. As the Chao Phraya River rose to 1.6 metres and a speed of 1,300 cubic metres per second, Bangkok Governor Mom Rajawongse Sukhumbhand Paripatra Tuesday led city executives to inspect Wat Lad Krabang slough gate and the flood prevention […]
BANGKOK, 12 August 2011 (NNT) – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has started operating the extension of the BTS skytrain service from On Nut to Bearing stations; the service will be free of charge until 2012 New Year. Accompanied by BMA executives, Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra on Friday morning presided over the launch of […]
BANGKOK, 10 August 2011 (NNT) – The Department of Drainage and Sewerage has revealed that Bangkok will not deal with floods anytime soon as current water levels do not exceed the barriers along the canals which are 2.5-3 meters high. Director General of the Department Mr. Sanya Cheenimit said the water in the Chao Phraya […]
BANGKOK, 10 August 2011 (NNT) – The Thai Travel Agent Association (TTAA) is gearing up to host a tourism event at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in Bangkok with 400 million THB expected to be generated from tour packages sold during this event. President of TTAA Mr.Charoen Wang-amanon said this event would be the […]
BANGKOK, Aug 10 – An Iranian man on Wednesday was detained at Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi international airport for smuggling 3.5 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ‘ice,’ worth Bt12.2 million (about US$420,000), Customs Department Director-General Prasong Poontaneat told a news briefing. Mohammadreza Mohammadi, 26, was detained Wednesday morning at Suvarnabhumi Airport with the drug ‘ice’, […]
Sydney bodybuilder has died after being found unconscious in a sauna in Thailand, 9news online reported Wednesday. Eastwood man Aziz “Zyzz” Sergeyevich Shavershian, who was well-known on the Sydney amateur body-building scene, died in Bangkok three days ago after going into cardiac arrest, according to a post on his Facebook fan page. Mr Shavershian, 22, […]
Stringent security measures were put in place at and around gold shops in Bangkok’s Yaowarat area on Tuesday after gold prices surged to a record high. Chief of Pubplachai police station Pol Col Rungrote Sayanprasert said the large number of gold shops in the Chinatown area could become targets of criminals. He had police to […]
BANGKOK, 8 August 2011 (NNT) – Bangkok Deputy Governor Theerachon Manomaipibul has revealed that the BTS train will begin its first day of its extension line service from Onnut to Bearing stations on 12 August 2011 to celebrate Her Majesty the Queen’s Birthday Anniversary. According to Mr. Theerachon, BMA Governor and a team of BMA […]
