The sharp drop in temperatures over the past few days makes it seem as if winter has returned to Thailand. The mercury plummeted to between 16 and 18 degrees Celsius in Bangkok and its neighbouring provinces, while the temperature on Doi Inthanon, the country’s highest peak, plunged to just 3.4 degrees yesterday. Meteorological Department acting […]
BANGKOK, March 17 — Two Royal Thai Air Force C-130 aircraft will leave Bangkok tonight to carry relief aid to Japan to help victims affected by the destructive earthquake and massive tsunami last weekend,now estimated to have killed at least 5,000 people along the battered east coast of Honshu Island. Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) […]
Singapore, March 17 – Thailand has frozen its plans to build its own nuclear power plants in the wake of the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan following a series of meltdowns at the quake-hit power complex in Fukushima. Thai Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban announced yesterday that the government would indefinitely halt all plans to […]
BANGKOK, March 17 — A plan has been prepared to evacuate Thai citizens from Japan in the wake of last week’s devastating earthquake, massive tsunami and a series of explosions at the earthquake-hit Fukushima nuclear power complex in Japan, according to Thai Minister of Foreign Affairs Kasit Piromya. Mr Kasit said that the Thai embassy […]
For days now officials in Japan have been giving citizens potassium iodide tablets with hopes of preventing thyroid cancer from exposure to radiation from damaged nuclear power plants. Now, Thai authorities announced they will give citizens traveling to Japan, iodide tablets starting Thursday. Pills will be given free to travelers flying to Tokyo from airports […]
The ongoing censure debate doesn’t just sound like an election campaign. It is an election campaign. And that will be underlined today when the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and the opposition Pheu Thai Party face off over the contentious issue of who “massacred” red-shirt protesters and who torched Central World and other buildings […]
BANGKOK, 16 March 2011 (NNT) – Deputy Prime Minister for Security Affairs Suthep Thaugsuban has voiced his belief that Thailand will not be affected by the radioactive leakage in Japan after several nuclear power plants were damaged by tremor and tsunami. Mr Suthep stated that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was monitoring the situation in […]
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) yesterday warned people against travelling to Japan in the wake of nuclear-plant explosions. “Exposure to radiation over a long time or in large amounts can cause cancer,” NCI director Dr Thiravud Khuhaprema said. Meanwhile Dr Piboon Issaraphan, a senior official at the Public Health Ministry’s Bureau of Occupational and Environmental […]
