BANGKOK, 28 September 2010 (NNT) – The Deputy Finance Minister reveals today that the Japanese government is willing to provide financial support to the MRT Purple line and the Chao Phraya bridge construction projects with a total investment fund of more than 8,600 million baht. Mr. Pradit Phataraprasit, the Deputy Finance Minister, has disclosed early […]
Venus Remedies, pharmaceutical manufacturer, said on Tuesday the Company has been awarded a contract for supply of its anti-cancer drug Docetaxel to the Thailand government. The Company has bagged the compulsory license from the Thailand government for the supply of anti-cancer drug. The contract is valid for one year and is expected to generate a […]
Experts are warning the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza could re-emerge in Thailand even though there has been little sign of it for years, the Bangkok Post reported. Migratory birds could possibly transmit avian influenza from animal to human without stringent disease surveillance, according to Pilaipan Puthavathana, a virologist at Siriraj Hospital’s department of […]
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 […]
