BANGKOK, April 6 — The value of trade between Thailand and India is expected to rise to US$10 billion next year, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva reported following his one-day official visit to New Delhi. Mr Abhisit’s visit to India, his first after becoming prime minister in 2008, ended late Tuesday. Read more: MCOT
More than a million people living on the slopes of hills nationwide are at great risk of landslides due to massive deforestation and torrential rains, the Mineral Resources Department warned yesterday. The Northern region is the highestrisk area with more than 3,965 villages located near slopes of hills, followed by the South with 1,628 villages, […]
BANGKOK, 5 April 2011 (NN)-The Democrat Party said it was ready to contest in the upcoming election while believing that the unrest would continue to dominate Thailand’s political arena if the Red Shirt core leaders were fielded as Puea Thai Party candidates. The personal spokesperson of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjivija, Thepthai Senpong, said the Democrat […]
BANGKOK, April 5 – Thailand’s Supreme Commander Gen Songkitti Jaggabatara on Tuesday urged the public not to believe the rumors over possible coup, saying the military will not interfere in politics. The supreme commander made the statement as he held a joint news conference with the commanders of three armed forces as rumors swirled that […]
BANGKOK, 5 April 2011 (NNT) – The Election Commission (EC) has assured that the general election will be held as planned while urging all sides to stop making speculations about a military coup. In the midst of circulating rumors pertaining to a possible coup d’état, Election Commissioner Praphan Naikowit insisted that the dissemination of such […]
BANGKOK, April 4 – The death toll from flooding triggered by unseasonal rain in Thailand’s South rose to 51 on Monday, with almost 30,000 people ill with flood-related maladies, according to the Public Health Ministry. Health Minister Jurin Laksanavisit said the most deaths, 21, were reported in Nakhon Si Thammarat, 10 in Surat Thani, nine […]
Thailand will nominate the old capital of Ayutthaya as the site for World Expo 2020. The cabinet yesterday approved Deputy Prime Minister Sanan Kachornprasart’s proposal to nominate the central province as the World Expo site, reasoning that the ancient city has the strongest potential among the candidate locations of Chonburi, Chanthaburi, Phetchaburi, Chiang Mai and […]
Illness – mostly from respiratory problems – has struck more than 20,000 residents in flooded provinces in the South. They are seeking or receiving treatment at government clinics, hospitals, or from mobile medical units, Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said yesterday. Mobile medical units had made 667 visits to 18,378 patients seeking treatment for respiratory […]
