A former vocational college student has been killed and two others injured in a fight with students of a rival school. Twenty four year old Cherdchai Chaiphak, a former student of Pathumwan Institute of Technology, has been shot and killed in Chatuchak district of Bangkok by students from a rival school. A witness said the […]
HOURS after a Qantas jet plunged almost 8000m during an emergency descent yesterday a Sydney-bound flight was forced to return to Bangkok because of engine problems. Flight QF2 carrying 352 passengers was about 30 minutes into its flight from Bangkok International Airport when one of its engines began “consuming fuel more quickly than normal” a […]
Arrest of five men for allegedly possessing war weapons, bombs shrouded in secrecy. Home-made bombs were allegedly found late yesterday afternoon near Government House, as Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was bracing himself for what was promised to be a relentless campaign against his regime by former allies. Whether this was a bad omen, an orchestrated […]
BANGKOK, January 23 (RIA Novosti) – A Ukrainian engineer who says he was held captive and forced to work at a Bangkok factory for 14 years will meet with officers of the Thai Department of Special Investigation on Monday to detail his allegations, The Bangkok Post reported on Sunday. Anatoliy Vdovychenko, 57, was rescued from […]
Thai Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat yesterday ordered two schools in Bangkok to shut for a week following a fatal brawl on Friday in which two students died. Bangkok School of Industrial Technology and the Technology Bang Kapi School were told to close from tomorrow, following the brawl between pupils from their schools on Ratpattana Road […]
BANGKOK, Jan 23 — Ratchadamnoen Road closed to traffic in a historic part of the capital late Sunday as the anti-government Red Shirts demonstrate at Democracy Monument in a mass gathering set to end at midnight. Thousands of United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) activists have occupied the roadway from Phan Fah Bridge to […]
BANGKOK, Jan 22 – Five Thai nationals released by the Cambodian court arrived in their homeland Saturday evening, while the Thai foreign ministry expressed hope that similar good news will happen with the other two Thais who remain in the neighbouring kingdom. The five Thais, including Democrat MP for Bangkok Panich Vikitsreth, Naruemol Chitwaratana, 2nd […]
THAILAND – THE Airports Authority of Thailand on Friday approved a Bt4 billion (S$167 million) budget to compensate residents living near Suvarnabhumi airport who have been affected by excessive noise from passenger jets’ engines during take-offs and landings. The approval has reportedly been influenced by a sit-in protest by around 200 residents at a gate […]
