BANGKOK, 11 March 2011 (NNT)-The Thai embassy in Tokyo has been coordinating with Japanese authority in bringing Thai nationals living in Miyagi to safety after the 8.9 magnitude quake has rocked the province earlier today, prompting tsunami warnings in Japan as well as other countries in the Pacific Ocean. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokersperson Mr. […]
BANGKOK, 11 March 2011 (NNT) – Thailand is found to provide the highest opportunities for women to hold executive positions in private organizations compared with others in the world, according to the 2011 annual business report of Grant Thornton. 45% of the Thai executives are found to be women, which is the highest in the […]
Children need to be empowered, with stakeholders working closing together and being vigilant in order to tackle the issue of child-sex offenders, Peter Davies, CEO of the London-based Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), said. Davies, and his colleague Tim Gerrish, were in Bangkok earlier this week to exchange views with the Thai police […]
Three Thai businessmen managed to maintain their positions in this year’s Forbes The World’s Billionaires list, despite many new entrants, particularly from Asia. The fortunes of all three Thai billionaires have improved over last year. Ranked No 1 in Thailand for two years, with a net worth of US$6.5 billion (Bt197 billion), Charoen Pokphand Group’s […]
Thirty-nine financial institutions agreed yesterday to let customers duped into wiring money to gangsters via ATMs to contact their call centres to cancel the transfers. Seehanat Prayoonrat, chief of the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO), said after meeting with the institutions’ representatives that the victims often realised they were fooled right after they had transferred the […]
Phitsanulok Police have seized around 2,600,000 ya ba tablets and 102 kilograms of crystal meth from drug smugglers, while Prachuap Khiri Khan Police arrested an Indian man with 22 kilograms of heroin, it was announced at a press conference yesterday. Police Region 6 chief Lt-General Ajin Chotiwong reported via video link that police obtained a […]
The Department of Consular Affairs has revealed that the bodies of five Thai victims in the Christchurch quake will be transported back to Thailand next week. The ashes of the first victim were handed over to her relatives earlier this week. Thailand lost a total of six nationals in the deadly earthquake. The victims were […]
BANGKOK, 10 March 2011 (NNT) – Domestic retail oil prices in Thailand remain cheaper than other countries in ASEAN, except Malaysia, which has been implementing a price subsidy policy, making it the only country in the region where oil prices are cheaper than Thailand. According to Energy Policy and Planning Office (EPPO) Director Viraphol Jirapraditkul, […]
