(NECN/MCOT) – Torrential rains cause floods in parts of the North and the Northeast of Thailand and damage a large number of houses and paddy fields. In the Northern province of Lampang, it has been raining since Friday evening and communities along local rivers in part of Jae Hom district are hit by flash floods […]
BANGKOK, 7 August 2010 (NNT) — The heavy rain that causes widespread flooding in Northern Thailand has continually ravaged residents’ properties and belongings. Students and teachers of the Ban Nam Mong Pang Sa School in Nan province on Saturday were reportedly evacuated from the school by boat due to a broken bridge from heavy rainfall, […]
Yangon (Aug 7, 2010) : An explosion killed two people on the Burmese side of the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge, officials said Saturday. The blast occurred about 8:30 pm Friday, in the Myawaddy market place, killing two people and injuring up to 20 others, according to government and border sources. Myawaddy is directly across the Moei […]
Veterinarians were treating the latest land mine victim from the Thai-Myanmar border Thursday, a 22-year-old female elephant whose foot was severely wounded by the explosion. Mae Ka Pae, as she is called, is the 13th mine casualty to be treated at the innovative Friends of Asian Elephant hospital near this city in northern Thailand since […]
Lop Buri – The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) in collaboration with relevant officials rescued 10 Laotian women from a prostitution ring late Monday night. The officials are now pressuring the ring’s leader Wiroj Sukpitak to surrender, and trying to locate where other victims have been hidden. The rescue operation took place after two Laotians […]
BANGKOK, 24 July 2010 (NNT) – The Meteorological Department warns people living in the North and the Northeast of Thailand of flashfloods although Tropical Storm Chantu has weakened to a depression. The Meteorological Department stated in its 9th announcement that Tropical Storm Chantu would not make a landfall in Thailand and had lost its strength. […]
Mae Sot, Thailand – When Cynthia Maung stumbled across the Thai-Myanmar border into Mae Sot in 1988 after a 10-day jungle trek to flee a military crackdown in Yangon, she planned to stay a few months at most. Twenty-two years later, Dr Maung’s Mae Tao clinic is a border institution, employing a staff of 634 […]
BANGKOK, July 11 (TNA) — As Thailand is facing sharp declines in birth and death rates, an academic population expert advised on Sunday, World Population Day, that the government should lay out measures to encourage people to produce ‘qualitative rather than quantitative children’. Prof Pramote Prasartful of Mahidol University said the birth rate in Thailand […]
