Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung confirms that the national police chief will be transferred. Deputy Prime Minister Police Captain Chalerm Yoobamrung said the reshuffle of police officers will be conducted in order to improve the management and administrative system of the Royal Thai Police. He affirmed that the reshuffle, which will include national police […]
The Thai women’s national volleyball players are in the spotlight, hopping from one TV studio to another, after getting an enthusiastic welcome when they arrived home from Macau on Monday. The Thai team finished an unprecedented sixth in the FIVB World Grand Prix in their ninth appearance. Thailand’s best performance so far was the 8th […]
Thailand’s government will continue to promote the use of alternative energy and will consider ways to lower prices of ethanol-blended gasohol, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said. Gasohol should be cheaper than gasoline by at least 2 baht per liter, Yingluck told reporters today. Read more: Bloomberg.com
BANGKOK, 30 August 2011 (NNT) – Thailand’s Meteorological Department has forecast heavy rains in the lower North, Central, East and Northeast while the South is packed with strong winds and residents are urged to keep ashore in the Andaman and the Gulf of Thailand. Residents living down the mountains in Nakhon Nayok, Prachin Buri, Rayong, […]
BANGKOK, Aug 30 – Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health has remained vigilant for the possibility of an outbreak of bird flu after patients contracting the disease were reported in Vietnam and Cambodia, but no patients and no poultry dying of suspicious causes have been reported here. Dr Pasakorn Akarasewi, director of Thailand’s Bureau of Epidemiology […]
Phnom Penh – Cambodia called Tuesday for the newly elected Thai government to resume talks on resolving claims to a 27,000 square-kilometre stretch of seabed considered rich in oil and gas. The Cambodian National Petroleum Authority, a government body, said it had “a firm commitment to finding an equitable and transparent resolution to the overlapping […]
BANGKOK, 30 August 2011 (NNT) – MD Kraisit Tantisirin, President of the Nutrition Association of Thailand, said food security was a significant concern in the country as the number of rice farms had declined by 2 million rai during 2003-2008 while 4 million rai more land were turned into para rubber tree plantations. In a […]
AMNAT CHAROEN, 30 August 2011 (NNT) – Deputy Governor of Amnat Charoen province Mr. Nopwatchara Singhsakda advised Thai citizens traveling to Lao People’s Democratic Republic to be aware of the dos and donts following the arrest of 3 Thais who had photographed Lao’ military unit. Their actions have been considered a threat to Lao national […]
