Cambodia has rejected a request for the extradition of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is now visiting the Southeast Asian nation. On Wednesday, Thai diplomats presented Cambodian officials with a request to detain and extradite Mr. Thaksin. He arrived in Cambodia on Tuesday, where he has been appointed economic adviser to Cambodian Prime […]
Cambodia will not have time to discuss with Thailand on the deteriorating ties when their leaders meet in the US-Asean Summit in Singapore this weekend, Cambodia’s PM Hun Sen said Wednesday. Hun Sen was speaking after his government rejected a Thai request to extradite fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra. Thai diplomats submitted the request together with supplementary […]
NEWLY-crowned Miss Thailand Pongchanok Kunklub has withdrawn for the national taekwondo squad for the Southeast Asian Games in Laos. But I’m not sure she has her priorities in order. In what must have been a gut-wrenching decision, Pongchanok has chosen looks over left hooks and revealed her victory in last weekend’s Miss Thailand pageant has […]
Thai women were forced to sell sex, cops say The Cook County sheriff’s police detained three women from Thailand on suspicion they had been coerced to engage in prostitution across the U.S. in the last three weeks as part of an international prostitution ring. The women said operators of the ring confiscated their passports, demanded […]
Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) — Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s “general condition is good,” the royal household said, dousing speculation that the 81-year-old monarch’s health had worsened during a 26-day stay in a hospital. “A further period of recovery of lung pneumonia is necessary, as in case of the elderly,” a faxed statement from the Royal Household […]
BANGKOK (Dow Jones)–General Motors Thailand said Wednesday that union workers have ended a strike at its manufacturing plant in the country’s east that has left production idling since early last week. The auto maker said in a statement that normal operations at the Rayong plant will resume Thursday after the company and the Workers Union […]
International education in Thailand is set to grow 10 per cent yearly and the government expects to have up to 100,000 foreign students enrolled here within five years, up from about 30,000 at present, a senior Commerce Ministry official said. “The quality of international academic institutions in Thailand is acknowledged worldwide. Much lower costs than […]
Frédéric Mitterrand, France’s culture minister, was under pressure to resign after it emerged that he had admitted to paying “young boys” for sexual acts while on holiday in Thailand. The revelations in his 2005 autobiography “The Bad Life” have come back to haunt Mr Mitterrand after he emerged as one of the most vociferous defenders […]
