Lincolnshire couple found dead on Thailand holiday A couple from Lincolnshire have died while on holiday in Thailand, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has confirmed. George and Eileen Everitt, from Boston, were in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, when they died on 19 February. BBC
Thai Govt emphasises need for detailed negotiation The prime minister said again in his weekly broadcast address yesterday that his government believed that a lasting solution to the border dispute could only come through careful negotiation. Association of Southeast Asian Nations foreign ministers meet in Jakarta tomorrow to find ways to solve the border dispute, […]
BANGKOK, 20 February 2011 (NNT)-Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva denied an allegation by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) that he was a British national. The Prime Minister has expressed his confidence that by law he has had Thai citizenship ever since he was born even though the place of birth was in England. […]
The Philippine government is helping a Filipina jailed in Thailand for being a “drug mule,” with a Philippine official visiting her at her Bangkok jail last week and presenting her with at least two options. Department of Foreign Affairs Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs (DFA-OUMWA) executive director Enrico Fos said they are […]
Top brass of Thai and Cambodian armed forces signed a ceasefire agreement on Saturday, reports said. Army chief-of-staff Daopong Rattanasuwan, 2nd Army Region commander Thawatchai Samutsakhon, Directorate of Border Affairs former chief Nipat Thonglek and Suranaree Task Force commander Chavalit Choonprasarn met Royal Cambodian Army deputy commander and Prime Minister Hun Sen’s son Hun Manet […]
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva warned yesterday that if the yellow shirts continued protesting and pressuring the Cambodian government, it might have negative consequences on the two Thai nationals being held in a Phnom Penh prison. He added that the government was doing what it could to help get Veera Somkwamkid and Ratree Pipatanapaiboon released. Abhisit […]
New York (CNN) — Authorities in New York seized more than $9 million worth of opium hidden inside a shipment of porcelain figurines last month at John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Thursday. The seizure happened on January 21, the agency said in a press release. CNN
BANGKOK, Feb 17 – As Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said he would ask Thailand to sign a permanent ceasefire agreement in the upcoming regional foreign ministers meeting, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Thursday said it is too soon to talk about it as Thailand was not the party which opened fire. The Thai […]
