BANGKOK, 8 March 2011 (NNT) – The Royal Thai Air Force has dispatched aircraft to perform rainmaking operations in drought-affected provinces across the country. Air Force Commander-in-Chief Air Chief Marshal Ittiporn Suppawong presided over the ceremony to release aircraft of the royal rainmaking unit at Squadron 601, Wing 6, Don Muang Air Force Base. In […]
About 1,000 farmers on Monday block the Phitsanulok – Nakhon Sawan road for the second day running, demanding the government raise the guaranteed price of rice for pledged crops to 14,000 baht per tonne. On Sunday, the farmers from the lower northern provinces of Phitsanulok, Sukhothai and Kamphaeng Phet began blocking all four main in-bound […]
CHIANG MAI, March 3 – The first day of Thailand’s royal rain-making operation in the North is proving successful as drought-affected areas will be targeted as a priority, according to Song Klinprathum, director of the Royal Rain Making Centre, Upper North office said. The timeframe of the rain-making operation plan this year runs through Oct […]
Thai villagers living near Preah Vihear Temple are now familiar with Cambodia’s BM-21 multiple rocket launchers, used in the border conflict with Thailand. The weapon can release 40 rockets at a time and these missiles can reach as far as 40 kilometres away. The Thai army has its own teeth. It has the DTI-1 multiple […]
Yangon – Thousands of ethnic Karen refugees, who fled Myanmar, could die of hunger in Thailand. Most have been living in makeshift tents in Tak province since January after intensified fighting between Karen rebels and Myanmar’s military forced them to leave their homes for the border area and then across the border into Thailand. Opposition […]
BANGKOK, 23 February 2011 (NNT) – Travel warning has been issued against the disputed area on the Thai-Cambodian border by two countries, which are Australia and Taiwan, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). Following the TAT board meeting, TAT Governor Surapol Svetasreni confirmed that the enforcement of the Internal Security Act (ISA) in […]
Fourteen teachers were killed and 23 others injured when their bus plunged into a roadside ravine Monday, police said. The accident happened in Nan’s Song Kwae district at about 7:30 am. The 32 teachers were traveling from Ban Dai School in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district on an education trip to Thung Chang district. They […]
Thai police have arrested a French language instructor who allegedly sexually abused a young boy in Nan province. Police said the man sold photographs of the children on the internet. Nan Provincial Police have arrested a 48 year old (name removed), a French national language instructor who allegedly sexually abused a number of young boys […]
