BANGKOK, 27 September 2010 (NNT) – The number of road accidents caused by public buses has increased to almost 200 in the first eight months of 2010, with over 100 fatalities and nearly 2,000 injuries. According to Land Transport Department Director-General Chairat Sanguansue, 186 road accidents were reported in the first eight months of this […]
A group of language students from Thailand are recovering in a Swedish hospital after making a home cooked meal with poisonous mushrooms. Despite consulting a book about the dos and don’ts of mushroom picking in Sweden, the 10 students still proceeded to make the mistake of picking poisonous fungi, possibly including the potentially-deadly death cap […]
If a general election was held today, slightly more than half of respondents surveyed by Abac Poll said they would vote for the Democrat Party to form the next government, according to survey results released yesterday. The survey showed both the ruling Democrat Party and the Opposition Pheu Thai Party would not win enough seats […]
BANGKOK, 26 September 2010 (NNT) – Thailand and neighboring Cambodia will spare no efforts trying to improve the badly-soured bilateral relations, according to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. Speaking in his weekly talk show, “Confidence in Thailand with PM Abhisit”, the Prime Minister stated that the two countries would work together to strengthen bilateral ties, saying […]
NEW YORK, Sept 25 — Thai Foreign Affairs Minister Kasit Piromya has urged his Kenyan counterpart to help rescue a Thai worker who was kidnapped earlier this week while working on an oil platform in Nigeria’s Niger Delta in West Africa, a senior ministry official said. Vimol Kidchob, a spokeswoman of the Thai Foreign Affairs […]
The Thai prime minister says his government may hold early elections in 2011 if the country’s Red Shirt opposition movement does not stage more protests. “We believe that six more months of continued stability… should be able to set the scene for a possible early election next year,” he told the Council on Foreign Relations […]
Revelations of widespread corruption and cheating in Royal Thai Police examinations have been uncovered in the Thai press this week. Reports stipulate that numerous non-commissioned officers taking the commissioned officer examinations were paying for their pass grade and using an unnamed telephone receiver/transmission device to assist in cheating on the exam. Thailand, the 24th of […]
Visa Overstay in Thailand, The Untold Story: Jail time for foreigners. BANGKOK (thaivisa.com): — Allegedly tired of overstaying foreigners arriving at Suvarnabhumi airport with a valid air ticket and the maximum fine of 20,000 baht in their hands, the Immigration Department is now arresting and jailing people before permitting them to leave Thailand. Anybody who […]
