The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) will ask the government for Bt8.4 billion to finance its new 2011-2012 tourism campaign, “Miracle Thailand”. The Cabinet will be asked to approve the budget by next month before the new financial year kicks off in October. This new campaign will replace TAT’s long-running “Amazing Thailand” theme. Prime Minister […]
BANGKOK, 29 August 2011 (NNT) – The Crime Suppression Division, the National Police Office, the Customs Department and private companies have jointly destroyed confiscated pirated goods worth 3.1 billion THB. Deputy Commerce Minister Siriwat Kajornprasart presided over the event to destroy the pirated products, weighing over 120 tons, seized by the authorities. The event is […]
Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has defended the sharp cut in petrol and diesel prices amid worries over the effect on gasohol sales and production. The measure, which has slashed the diesel price by three baht a litre and 91 and 95 octane petrol by between seven and eight baht, is an initial step to […]
BANGKOK, 29 August 2011 (NNT) – The Pheu Thai Party has dismissed the rumour that Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul was to request the British authorities to grant a visa for ex-Prime Minister Police Lieutenant Colonel Thaksin Shinawatra. Pheu Thai Party Spokesperson Prompong Nopparit criticised the Democrat Party, particularly Acting Democrat Party Spokesperson Chavanond Intarakomalyasut, for […]
BANGKOK, 28 August 2011 (NNT) – Self-exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has left Japan and is now in Macao. Mr Thaksin had met Japanese senior officials and visited the tsunami and quake-hit areas. During his interview with Kyodo News before leaving Japan, he denied reports of any plan to visit Cambodia. The former premier […]
Syrian ex-commando admits stabbing New Zealander in Jomtien, Thailand after row A former Syrian Army commando has been arrested in connection with the murder of Charles Edmund Jones, late president of the World Croquet Federation, in Jones’s rented condominium in Chon Buri’s Jomtien area on Monday night. The New Zealander’s body was discovered in the […]
BANGKOK, 27 August 2011 (NNT) – Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is ranked 59th as the World’s Most Powerful Woman in 2011 by Forbes magazine, along with other globally recognised female political and business leaders. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is ranked first on the list of 100 most powerful women of the world, followed by […]
Prices at the pump in Thailand will tumble by as much as eight baht a litre today after the government gave the green light for a measure slashing contributions by refineries to the State Oil Fund. Energy Minister Pichai Naripthaphan said contributions and value-added tax have been cut by three baht a litre for diesel, […]
