Thai Airways will increase the fuel charge for international flights starting from April 18 onwards, and for European flights starting from May 2. Thai Airways International has announced that the company will raise the fuel surcharge for international-flight passengers. The company said it will be changing the fees to reduce fuel expenditures, in line with […]
The 111 Thai Rak Thai Foundation on Friday announced its civil litigation suing the government for Bt39.8 million damage in connection with the April 10, 2010 crackdown on red-shirt protesters on Rajdamnoen Avenue. The foundation, a non-profit organisation formed by 111 barred party executives following the Thai Rak Thai Party dissolution, claims to represent 16 […]
BANGKOK, 9 April 2011 (NNT)-The Pheu Thai Party has called on Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to specify the date for the House Dissolution and tackle rising product prices while the Opposition is prepared to expose product hoarders. Deputy Spokesperson of the opposition Pheu Thai Party, Jirayu Huangsap said it was important that the day to […]
Ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has emerged from months of silence in his self-imposed exile to say he intends to play a key role in running from afar Thailand’s economic policies if the opposition Puea Thai Party wins the coming elections. His move comes while Puea Thai is mired in an internal conflict to seek […]
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) will ask the Public Health Ministry and the Comptroller General’s Department to put strict controls on the medical benefit reimbursement scheme for civil servants. The move follows findings indicating two state hospitals in the Northeast spent an irregular amount of money on prescription antihyperlipidemics and drugs to treat gastroesophageal […]
BANGKOK, April 9 — The death toll from severe flooding and mudslides in Thailand’s southern provinces has risen to 63 as search-and-rescue operations continued by concerned officials, said Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit on Saturday. Meanwhile, he said, the urgent problem now facing doctors is that distressed victims may resort to committing suicide as they […]
BANGKOK, April 8 — Thailand’s Customs Department officials arrested a man in Prachuap Khiri Khan province for attempting to smuggle nearly 2,000 live tree monitor lizards worth more than Bt1.8 million to Bangkok. Customs Department Director-General Prasong Poontaneat told a press conference that a checkpoint set up at Silaloi sub district of Sam Roi Yot […]
The Election Commission should open an inquiry into the involvement of fugitive Montenegrin Thaksin Shinawatra with the Pheu Thai Party, Democrat MP Boonyod Suktinthai said on Friday. “Thaksin’s involvement might have violated Article 21 of the Political Parties Act banning an alien from intefering with Thai politics,” he said. Read more: The Nation
