A Los Angeles man who worked as an English teacher in Bangkok will spend 25 years in federal prison for traveling to Thailand to have sex with minors, prosecutors said today. Steven Erik Prowler, 61, was re-sentenced in U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles after prosecutors appealed a 10-year sentence previously handed down in […]
BANGKOK—Thailand’s prime minister said he won’t call national elections until early next year at the earliest as the government promotes programs intended to bridge the kind of economic divides that fueled deadly protests earlier this year. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s comments, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, came after two separate grenade attacks […]
Despite the political crisis in Thailand in May and June, the country saw an increase in visitors in the first half of the year. The Ministry of Tourism and Sports showed there were 7,515,025 visitors between January and June, compared to 6,609,313 in 2009. Canadian arrivals rose by 3.8%. In a release, the ministry said […]
ASIAN carriers Thai and Tiger are planning a new airline partnership to to fight growing competition from Qantas owned Jetstar. Publicly owned Thai Airways and Singapore-based Tiger Airways Holdings today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create a new low cost carrier that will trade as Thai Tiger Airways. Tiger’s shareholders were told in a […]
Cambodia said yesterday that Thailand failed all of its efforts to derail the Preah Vihear’s management plan since the World Heritage Committee’s decision to delay consideration of the plan’s documents would never impede the implementation of temple conservation. There is no requirement that the Committee approves the plan because the role of the World Heritage […]
NAKHON RATCHASIMA, 1 August 2010 (NNT) – A series of bomb explosions in Bangkok might negatively affect the Thai economy despite the current global economic recovery, said former Deputy Prime Minister and Ruam Chart Pattana Party core leader, Suwat Liptapanlop. According to Mr Suwat, the Thai economic condition has improved after the prolonged rallies of […]
The number of prisoners in Thailand’s 143 jails is now well over capacity with more than 200,000 inmates around the country. About 60 per cent had been jailed for drug offences, Corrections Department chief Chartchai Suthiklom said. The large number of prisoners had affected the department’s budget, staff and capacity to manage both jails and […]
Two journalists died and several others were injured during the country’s political unrest. A CPJ investigation has found that both security forces and protesters engaged in reckless behavior—and in the aftermath, the government has done little to bring anyone to account. A CPJ special report by Shawn W. Crispin. After Thai security forces and antigovernment […]
