BANGKOK, May 26 – Drug use is spreading in Thailand’s central provinces where most of the country’s drug addicts, 35 per cent of users nationwide, are staying, Assistant Commissioner of the Royal Thai Police Pol Lt-Gen Worapong Chewpreecha said today. Gen Worapong conceded that severe drug use was spreading in five provinces adjacent to the […]
BANGKOK, 26 May 2011 (NNT) – The number of European travellers visiting Thailand during the first four months of 2011 increased by 18% year-on-year, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). TAT Deputy Governor Chuthaporn Roengronasa reported that the majority of the European tourists were Russian, accounting for 40% of the total figure. The […]
More than 92 per cent of Bangkok voters intend to cast their ballot although some 52 per cent say they are undecided on which party or candidate to pick, Bangkok Poll said in a survey released on Tuesday. Pheu Thai candidate Yingluck Shinawatra is in the lead in the race for the position of prime […]
BANGKOK, 24 May 2011 (NNT) – The Ministry of Public Health will focus on children and women in its anti-tobacco campaign for the World No Tobacco Day this year after they are found to be main targets of cigarette companies. Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit chaired a press briefing of the event scheduled on 31 […]
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has said that his sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, would not become the next prime minister even if the Pheu Thai Party wins the election. In an exclusive interview with Matichon, Thaksin said he feared that Yingluck would be attacked and destroyed by the Democrat if she became the government leader. Read […]
A website of the Democrat Party, set up to attract young people, was hacked on Sunday night. Reports said an anonymous hacker broke into “www.youngdemocrat.org” while Prime Minister and Democrat leader Abhisit Vejjajiva was using social media for his party’s election campaign. Read more: Bangkok Post
A warm hometown welcome in Chiang Mai Brings Prime Ministerial Candidate to Tears CHIANG MAI : Pheu Thai will put money back into voters’ pockets and drive out illicit drugs in 12 months, says its drawcard Yingluck Shinawatra. Launching her campaign in her hometown of Chiang Mai yesterday, Ms Yingluck revived many of the well […]
BANGKOK, May 20 — Thailand’s Immigration Police Bureau arrested two Czechs with outstanding arrest warrants from the Czech Republic and Interpol for a 2 million Euro bank cash delivery robbery in 2008. Josef Blazek, 32, and Rudolf Tesarek, 35, were arrested at a Robinson Department Store in the eastern province of Chon Buri’s Sriracha district. […]
