The Criminal Court Thursday sentenced a Taiwanese man to 20 years in jail after convicting him in duping 23 people to transfer him Bt2.118 million. Lee Jui Jung was initially sentenced to 69 years in jail for 23 counts of crimes, but the court commuted the punishment by half. But since the law sets the […]
The situation for the stranded tourists from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland on Koh Samui, Koh Pangnan and Koh Tao stabilized during Thursday. The rain has stopped but it is still clowdy. Some roads are open again on Koh Samui, the airport and ferrys are running normally. The Danish Embassy tells Scandasia today that about […]
BANGKOK, 31 March 2011 (NNT) – The Ministry of Public Health has launched ‘condom points’ to provide condoms and lubricants for people, especially homosexual groups, free of charge in an effort to cut HIV/AIDS infection rate in the country. Speaking in a national HIV/AIDS seminar this week, Permanent Secretary for Public Health Medical Doctor Paijit […]
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — At least 21 people are dead after flash floods swept through eight provinces in southern Thailand, according to the country’s Interior Ministry. The flooding has affected more than 716,000 people, the country’s disaster prevention agency said. Villagers in one province, Krabi, have been asked to take shelter at temples or other […]
BANGKOK, March 30 — The number of current flood-related deaths in the southern provinces now stands at 11 with the most casualties–seven persons–registered in Nakhon Si Thammarat followed by three victims in Surat Thani and one in Phatthalung, Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Director-General Vibul Sanguanpong said on Wednesday. Officially 716,110 persons have been affected by […]
BANGKOK, 30 March 2011 (NNT)-President of Thai Airways International PCL Dr. Piyasawat Amaranand said the government should let the market mechanism determine the fuel prices while encouraging the use of renewable energy in the country by advising related agencies to cancel the sales of benzene 91 across Thailand. Dr. Piyasawat said the government’s efforts in […]
The Office of Basic Education Commission (Obec) will seek a Bt350million budget to hire 300 native English-speaking teachers for its primary and secondary schools to tackle the shortage of English teachers, a senior official said yesterday. According to the proposal, the native speakers would each get about Bt1 million per year – a salary of […]
NONTHABURI, March 29 – Thailand’s Public Health Ministry on Tuesday reported that the cumulative number of people living with HIV has reached 1.1 million while about 10,000 others became newly infected each year with the deadly virus. Speaking during the 13th national seminar on the HIV/AIDS situation in Thailand, Dr Chawetsan Namwat, chief of the […]
