BANGKOK, 26 August 2011 (NNT) – Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has promised to work hard and do her best in the national administration for people because she believes that leadership depends on the result of operations rather than roles in Parliament. Speaking upon the opposition’s criticism on her poor roles in delivering the policy statement, […]
SENDAI, Aug 26 (Kyodo) – Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, on a weeklong visit to Japan through Sunday, visited areas hit by the March earthquake and tsunami on Thursday and expressed his readiness to help rebuilding efforts under way in northeastern Japan. Speaking to reporters after a visit to Natori, a city inundated by […]
BANGKOK, 25 August 2011 (NNT) – Thai Democrat Songkhla MP Mr. Wirat Kalayasiri has submitted a petition to Senate speaker General Theeradej Meepian to disqualify Foreign Minister Surapong Torwijakchaikul, saying that he has violated the Constitution. According to Mr. Wirat, the Foreign Minister has violated the Constitution on purpose and it was unethical for him […]
BANGKOK, Aug 24 – Thailand’s National Counter-Corruption Commission (NCCC) has found sufficient grounds to believe that former Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) chief Juthamas Siriwan received money in a film festival bribery case involving an American couple. NCCC Commissioner Klanarong Chantik said Wednesday that the anti-graft body endorsed the findings of its subcommittee that Mrs […]
BANGKOK, 24 August 2011 (NNT) – Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health is seeking cooperation from the public in destroying mosquito breeding grounds after more than 40,000 people have been infected with dengue fever this year. Deputy Director-General of the Department of Disease Control MD Suwannachai Wattanayingcharoenchai admitted his growing worries about the dengue fever situation […]
BANGKOK, 24 August 2011 (NNT) – The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) has reported that 14 provinces remain inundated while the flood has killed 41 people and devastated over two million rai of farmland so far. According to DDPM Director-General Viboon Sanguanpong, the 14 provinces still inundated include 614 sub-districts and 90 districts. […]
BANGKOK, 24 August 2011 (NNT) – The Appeals Court overturned the lower court’s verdict against Pojaman Shinawatra Na Pompetch of tax evasion for the transfer of shares. The ex-wife of former Prime Minister Thasksin Shinawatra was accused of evading 546-million THD tax payment in the transfer of 4.5 million Shinawatra Computer and Communications Public shares. […]
AKHON RATCHASIMA, Aug 24 – The Thai-Cambodian Regional Border Committee (RBC) on Wednesday began meeting in Thailand’s northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima, discussing 15 issues including troop withdrawal from the disputed border area. The 15th RBC meeting in Nakhon Ratchasima is being co-chaired by Lt-Gen Thawatchai Samutsakhon, Second Region Army commander responsible for security affairs […]
