Thai health authorities are urging women not to wear fashionable black leggings to avoid attracting dengue fever-carrying mosquitoes. They recommend thick clothes such as jeans after a dengue outbreak. This year 26 out of 43 dengue deaths in Thailand were of people between the ages of 10 and 24. There have been 40,000 cases this […]
Dozens of impoverished red shirts detained since the May 19 dispersal of the red shirts’ protest have been “virtually abandoned” with no visitors and some without defence lawyers, revealed Nitirat Sapsoomboon, a member of the National Human Rights Commission’s subcommittee on citizen and political rights. At least 10 of them are women and Nitirat said […]
BANGKOK, 6 August 2010 (NNT) – Three-wheel ‘Tuk Tuk’ a well known taxi of Thailand has been ranked 5th in “The World Best Taxi” arranged by a tourism website ‘hotel.com’. Following a survey in random of more than 1,900 travelers during 11-28 May this year about the best taxi they ever met, London taxi was […]
Two foreign subsidiaries of Virginia-based Alliance One International Inc. pleaded guilty on Friday to bribing officials in Thailand and Kyrgyzstan to secure contracts and purchase tobacco leaf, the Justice Department said. Alliance One International AG, a Swiss corporation, was charged with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act and violations of the anti-bribery and […]
BANGKOK – A Japanese man accused of forging his own death certificate to collect millions of dollars in insurance payments is being held in Thailand on an immigration violation pending other possible charges, Thai police said Friday. Arrested in his Thai girlfriend’s apartment Thursday, Ichiro Ogushi, 35, had been on the run since immigration authorities […]
BANGKOK, Aug 6 – Thai police arrested a suspected murderer and a suspected paedophile in two separate cases after investigation a request by the British Embassy in Bangkok. The first case is involved with a British national, Stuart Scott Crawford, most wanted as the subject of an arrest warrant for murdering Michael Ryan in Surrey. […]
Few people doubt that the action, at least in economic terms, is going to be in asia in the next few years. But if you’re a relatively developed economy within Asia, how do you take advantage of that? It’s a question that has obviously been exercising Korn Chatikavanij, Thailand’s finance minister. Speaking at the Foreign […]
BANGKOK – THAILAND’S Prime Minister yesterday warned that intelligence had forecast more violent attacks in the kingdom, as police arrested a former soldier suspected of involvement in a string of recent bombings in the capital. ‘There remains a group of people who want to employ violence,’ Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva told reporters, adding that there […]
