SI SA KET, Feb 4 — Fighting between Thai and Cambodian troops ended Friday evening after lasting for two hours at the border near the disputed Preah Vihear temple with artillery shells from Cambodia falling into Thailand’s Si Sa Ket province, killing one villager and wounding five soldiers. Artillery shells landed at Bhumsrol village in […]
BANGKOK, Feb 5 — As fresh fighting at the disputed Thai-Cambodian border erupted, the Thai Commerce Minister Pornthiva Nakasai has decided to postpone a Thai goods exhibition scheduled to be held in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh for an indefinite period, a spokesman for the ministry said. The spokesman said Ms Pornthiva had ordered […]
Phnom Penh/Bangkok – Cambodia and Thailand traded artillery and gunfire Friday at their northern border as Cambodia said more than 100 Thai artillery shells had landed in a civilian area in its territory. The Bangkok Post newspaper reported ‘two or three’ Thai soldiers had been wounded, citing a military source. Cambodian government spokesman Phay Siphan […]
Thai and Cambodian troop patrols clashed on Friday afternoon on the border near the disputed 4.6 square kilometre area near Preah Vihear, an informed military source said. Thais hurt, border fighting continues Two or three Thai soldiers were wounded in fighting with Cambodian troops on Friday afternoon near the 4.6 square kilometre area under dispute […]
Words of wisdom have it that you can never discard the possibility of a military coup in Thailand. So is Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva safe? The current coup rumours were based on what was perceived by some as a political impasse. According to the “deadlock” school of thought, Abhisit, because of his disastrous handling of […]
Narcotics Suppression officers have arrested seven suspected drug traffickers in separate busts this week, seizing a combined eight kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, or “ice”, and 100,000 amphetamine pills. The seven include two Malaysian nationals, two Hmong, a Burmese, a Nigerian and a Cambodian, NSB chief Atithep Panjamanond said yesterday. Bangkok Post
CHIANG MAI, Thailand — If bathroom graffiti is any measure of a go-go bar’s depravity, then the “Can Do” bar is rather chaste. Girl-power slogans are scrawled on the walls in pink magic marker. Above the toilet, the blue-ink scribble gets unusually political for a go-go bar: “Vote no – crazy constitution in Burma!” In […]
Key member arrested over airport seizures A key member of the People’s Alliance for Democracy has been arrested on outstanding charges stemming from the movement’s seizure in 2008 of Bangkok’s two commercial airports. The arrest last night comes as the PAD announced it is planning a major rally on Saturday to try to force the […]
