Thai community radio stations and websites will be subject to closer scrutiny for possible lese majeste content. The Internal Security Operations Command is taking a closer look at community radio stations and websites broadcasting and publishing content which could be deemed offensive to the monarchy. Isoc’s 6th Operation Centre, which has responsibility for promoting royal […]
BANGKOK, April 14 — Thailand has set a new world record for water gun shootouts Wednesday, the first day of the Songkran festival, Thailand’s traditional New Year, overtaking Spain, the previous record holder. A total of 3,477 Songkran revellers sprayed water from their water guns at each other for 10 minutes at Bangkok’s CentralWorld shopping […]
A total of 116 people were killed and 1,760 injured in 1,626 road accidents from April 11 to 13, the first three days of the “seven dangerous days” of Songkran, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department reported on Thursday. On Wednesday, 733 road accidents killed 57 people and injured 784 others, according to the department. […]
Red-shirt leaders yesterday threatened to file libel and lese majeste charges against the political establishment after the Army chief hit them with a similar suit. Pheu Thai Party MP Jatuporn Promphan, a core red leader, said he would lodge a complaint with Samran Rat Police Station on Sunday against General Prayuth Chan-ochar for falsely claiming […]
BANGKOK, April 13 — Devout Thai Buddhists joined by foreigners early Wednesday celebrated the first day of Songkran festival or Thailand’s traditional New Year by offering alms to monks and asking for blessings from elderly people. Ten senior Buddhist monks chanted prayers at the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) headquarters, City Hall, while BMA Governor Sukhumbhand […]
Actor Somchai Khemklad was given 15 days under detention yesterday after a Lampang court turned down his request for temporary release over charges of assaulting a grocery store owner two years ago. Somchai missed a scheduled meeting last Friday to hear his appeal, but showed up in court on Monday. The court turned down his […]
A Cambodian non-government organisation claims that at least 10 Cambodian civilians had been shot dead while hunting for food or logging in the forested mountains on the Thai-Cambodian border last year and early this year. Executive director of the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) Ouch Leng and humanrights activist Chan Soveth came up with […]
BANGKOK, April 13 — Fifty-nine persons died and 976 were injured in road accidents across Thailand during the first two of this year’s Songkran festival’s “seven dangerous days,” a senior transport ministry official said Wednesday. Chamroon Tangpaisalkij, deputy permanent secretary of the transport ministry, said statistics compiled by the Road Safety Centre of the Department […]
