Abhisit Vejjajiva plans to convene a working group to find a way to “smoothly” cancel the online lottery. The prime minister said he was deeply concerned about the social problems the lottery could cause. “I do not want the online lottery but I must solve the problem of obligations under the contract,” Mr Abhisit said. […]
(RTTNews) – Thailand’s consumer price annual inflation stood at 3.5% in December, up from November’s 1.9%, the Commerce Ministry reported Monday. Headline inflation in Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy turned positive in November after nine months of deflation. However, the annual rate stayed below the consensus forecast of 3.7%. Core annual inflation was 0.2% in December […]
A total of 686 road accidents happened on New Year Day, the fourth day of the seven dangerous New Year holidays, killing 70 victims, causing the accumulated road death to climb to 238. The centre for prevention road accidents during the New Year holidays announced that 737 people were injured in road accidents on the […]
Suicide has become the fourth major cause of death from injury as young people increasingly take their own lives. Paijit Warachit, permanent secretary of the Public Health Ministry, said yesterday that the Bureau of Epidemiology’s injury watch in 2008 found that 30 major hospitals’ emergency rooms had admitted 7,237 people suffering from self-inflicted injuries with […]
A Thai court has ordered the crew of a cargo plane transporting weapons from North Korea to remain in jail for 12 more days. The five crew members, consisting of one Belarus national and four Kazakh nationals, were arrested in mid-December after their cargo plane was seized during a stop in Bangkok. The plane was […]
Repeating his claim of last week, Jatuporn said a memorandum on Thai-Cambodian ties, classified as secret and sent from Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, was purportedly a plot to assassinate Thaksin. “The term “get rid of” is a codeword for killing,” he said, claiming such a codeword is commonly understood by […]
PB Air will shut down the business on December 21, due to the economic crisis. Liquidator Songsak Phaktachai said the airline also does not have enough aircraft and due to losses could not lease airplane. He insisted that the company would pay compensation to all 188 staff. The scheme would be clear within 7 days. […]
Weapons seized in Thailand from an impounded plane traveling from North Korea were likely destined for Iran, a high-ranking Thai government security official was quoted by Reuters as saying regarding the findings of a team investigating the arms. “Some experts believe the weapons may be going to Iran, which has bought arms from North Korea […]
