AYUTTHAYA, 24 June 2011 (NNT) – The Ministry of Public Health has incinerated over 5,800 kilogrammes of confiscated narcotic drugs worth 7.4 billion baht in observance of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, 26 June. Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit presided over the incineration, which was the cooperative activity of related units […]
BANGKOK, June 24 – Top Pheu Thai Party list candidate Yingluck Shinawatra on Friday dismissed allegations by the Democrat Party that her brother, fugitive ex-premier Thaksin, is now lobbying coalition parties to form a new government with her party. Ms Yingluck’s denial came after Democrat party deputy leader Suthep Thaugsuban said he was told by […]
Lab tests on samples from a foreigner found dead at an Udon Thani hotel have detected an E. coli strain, but confirmation is pending on whether it was a communicable type, Public Health Ministry permanent secretary Dr Phaijit Warachit said yesterday. Tests of the unnamed tourist’s blood and urine detected a bacteria called Plesiomonas shigelloides, […]
The Pheu Thai Party is the most popular choice under both the list and constituency voting systems in Bangkok while the Democrat Party is second, according to Bangkok University’s poll. Bangkok Poll, which questioned 3,338 people in the city from June 16-22, found 37.9% of respondents said they would vote for Pheu Thai in the […]
The Thai government says two vaccine plants, just outside the capital Bangkok, are expected to start production later this year. Two years ago Thailand faced a similar problem to countries in the developing world: the H1N1 or swine flu pandemic was sweeping the globe, and expensive vaccines were quickly snapped up by wealthier countries. It’s […]
The Juvenile and Family Court prosecutor will file charges of reckless driving causing deaths and injuries and using a mobile phone behind the wheel against a 17-year-old girl who was involved in a fatal expressway accident on December 27 last year. The crash killed nine people and injured several others. Read more: The Nation
An assistant rector of Mahamakut Buddhist University filed a police complaint Wednesday at the Crime Suppression Police Bureau against a monk who was photographed “planking” while wearing a monk’s saffron robe. Bringing information and photographs to the police, Songkran Achariyasap said he had taken personal action so that other monks didn’t follow this “bad example”. […]
Bangkok – Thai protesters massed outside the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s Bangkok office Wednesday to demand that a Cambodian temple be removed from the world heritage list. About 1,000 members of the ultra-nationalist People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) gathered to demand UNESCO delist the Preah Vihear temple, which lies on Cambodian soil […]
