Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director of independent online newspaper prachatai.com was released on bail yesterday after her relatives posted Bt200,000 bail with Khon Kaen police. Police said the 43 year-old webmaster was arrested at Suvarnabhumi International Airport on Friday after her arrival from Finland, following an arrest warrant from Khon Kaen Provincial Court. She was accused of […]
BANGKOK, 22 September 2010 (NNT) – Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has reiterated that the ancient Ta Muen Thom Temple ruin at Phanom Dong Rak district, in Surin Province, belongs to Thailand. The Cambodian side earlier claimed that the Temple was situated in Cambodian territory; it also threatened to open fire if the Thai side deployed […]
The Interior Ministry is mobilising a pro-monarchy rally to counter the mass gatherings called by the red shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship today. The UDD will hold mass rallies nationwide to mark the fourth anniversary of the Sept 19, 2006 coup today. At least 50,000 members of the Monarchy Defence Network from seven […]
AN AUSTRALIAN organisation comprising ex-police and special forces soldiers has rescued four child sex workers from an illegal brothel near the Thailand-Cambodia border. The team of volunteer operatives from The Grey Man, a Brisbane-based charity, staged the successful operation at a brothel in the Thailand town of Aranyaprathet, 1km from the Cambodian border, on Saturday. […]
BURI RAM, 11 September 2010 (NNT) – Over 2,300 residents of Buri Ram province have caught dengue fever while the Ministry of Public Health is deploying village health volunteers to help combat the disease in local communities. Buri Ram Provincial Public Health Officer MD Sompong Jarungjittanuson stated that the outbreak of dengue fever in the […]
SURIN, 6 September 2010 (NNT) – Over 250 residents of the northeastern province of Surin have been infected with leptospirosis. One person has been confirmed dead. MD Sa-ard Weeracharoen of the Surin Provincial Public Health Office stated that the accumulative number of people infected with leptospirosis in the province currently stood at 252 with one […]
SURIN, 5 September 2010 (NNT) – Over 2,300 residents of the northeastern province of Surin have been infected with dengue fever, while the spread of epidemic remains rampant nationwide. Surin Public Health officer MD Sa-Ard Weeracharoen in Surin has disclosed that the outbreak of dengue has spread to 17 districts of the province. The number […]
Secretly recorded mobile phone footage has exposed a teacher at a Catholic boarding school in north-eastern Thailand who whacked dozens of students on the buttocks with a cane wrapped with electrical wire. Art teacher Somchai Limthanmaporn was fired after he was exposed hitting at least 40 students, according to Nongkran Prathumtri, an administrator at St […]
