BANGKOK, Aug 17 – Thailand’s Public Health Ministry reported Wednesday that 31 persons have died and over 27,000 others have become sick due to the flooding in the country’s northern and northeastern provinces. Thirty-one deaths were reported, two in Chiang Mai, four in Sukhothai, two in Sakon Nakhon, eight in Phrae, three in Nakhon Phanom, […]
BANGKOK – Thai authorities said on Tuesday four foreign tourists and a local tour guide who died mysteriously in the northern city of Chiang Mai may have been poisoned by unknown toxic chemicals or pesticides. In a report into the deaths of six people and illnesses of three others earlier this year, Thailand’s Department of […]
BANGKOK, Aug 16 – Thai Defence Minister Gen Yuthasak Sasiprapa is set to meet his Cambodian counterpart Gen Tea Banh in the General Border Committee (GBC) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to settle the border disputes with the neighbouring country. Gen Yutthasak said on Tuesday that he had received an invitation to attend the Thai-Cambodian GBC […]
UDON THANI, Aug 16 – The Udon Thani Provincial Court on Tuesday granted bail for 22 Red Shirt suspects charged in relation to last year’s political demonstrations and violence. The Red Shirt leading member Kwanchai Praipana travelled to the court on Tuesday afternoon to hear the ruling after nine Pheu Thai members of parliament on […]
BANGKOK, 15 August 2011 (NNT) – The Economic Crime Division and the Department of Intellectual Property are asking the public for their cooperation in seeking offenders who filmed a movie in the theater. Police Colonel Chainarong Charoenchainao, Deputy Commander of the Economic and Cyber Crime Division said that his Division had always raised awareness of […]
Chonburi Provincial Courts are stepping up their campaign to educate local expats on the finer points of the Thai Justice system. Chonburi Provincial Courts are stepping up their campaign to educate local expats on the finer points of the Thai Justice system. In a recent press conference, Chonburi’s Chief Judge, Visit Sriphiboon announced an upcoming […]
Twenty year old Patcharida “Julie” Rodkongkha, who is half Thai and half English, was crowned Miss Thailand World 2011 on Sunday. Julie, a freshman student at Fashion Design Raffles International, takes home more than Bt6 million. She will represent Thailand in the Miss World pageant in London, England in November. Julie was born in England […]
US Senator Jim Webb on Monday commended Thailand for holding a general election last month which brought the country “back inside the democratic process.” “The most important thing I would like to say today is I am grateful that elections were held in the country,” said Webb, who heads US Senate’s Foreign Relations sub-committee on […]
