BANGKOK, 12 July 2011 (NNT) – The Ministry of Culture has invited Buddhists to practice dhamma upon the Asalha Puja Day and the Buddhist Lent Day while the ministry and related organisations will be arranging the Buddhism Promotion Week from 13 to 15 July 2011. According to Religious Affairs Department Director-General Sod Daeng-Ied, his department […]
Public prosecutors are scheduled to present closed-circuit video footage today in the criminal trial of two men charged with participating in the arson that burned down CentralWorld and Zen department store last year. The video is expected to help pinpoint those responsible for setting the shopping centre ablaze during riots after the military moved in […]
BANGKOK, 11 July 2011 (NNT) – Incoming Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has taken her son, Supasek ‘Pipe’ Amornchat, to make his ID card after the law now requires all children aged more than seven years to have their own citizen cards. The incoming prime minister took her nine-year-old son to make his first ID card […]
Cleaner tells police he took ‘white pill’, drank beer, had paranoia attack A two-year-old boy is dead after a man – thought to have been delirious after drinking beer and taking a narcotics pill – stabbed him many times while holding him hostage in front of police and many onlookers in Bangkok’s Prawet district yesterday […]
BANGKOK, 9 July 2011 (NNT) – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), the Bangkok Bicycle Campaign network and related organisations have invited Bangkok city dwellers to take part in the First Bangkok Car Free Sunday at Lumphini Park this Sunday morning. According to BMA Spokesperson Jate Sopitpongstorn, the Bangkok Car Free Sunday activity is jointly organised […]
A schoolgirl was killed and six others injured when a Mercedes-Benz, which reportedly had faulty brakes, ran them over inside the Temrak Suksa School campus in Nonthaburi’s Bang Bua Thong district Thursday morning. Of the seven victims who were taken to Kasemrat Rattanathibet Hospital, Prathom 6 student Anchisa Kesornbua succumbed to her injuries, while two […]
A helicopter hovered over a forest zone in Pathum Thani, Thailand for more than 40 minutes yesterday morning in support of an operation to arrest four suspected methamphetamine manufacturers, including a municipal councillor. The suspects were Banjerd Yodmali, Kamon Chamcheun, Somsak Puangmalee, and Jakkrit Sudkid. Banjerd is a councillor of Ta Khlong Municipality in Pathum […]
PATHUM THANI : Explosions and gunshots rang out yesterday afternoon as a 200-strong group of black-clad men attacked a squatter community occupying a deserted factory in Khlong Luang. The attackers stormed the 616-rai plot on outbound Phahon Yothin Road around 3.30pm and set about torching some of the near-1,000 wooden huts housing the squatters. Read […]
