Police are on 24-hour security watch at tourist locations and places of foreign interest in Bangkok as officers investigate supposed links between an arrested Lebanese man and terrorist plots. Security has been heightened at various locations including Khao San Road, commercial areas of Sukhumvit Road, the Israeli embassy and the American School of Bangkok in […]
BANGKOK, 21 January 2012 (NNT) – The country’s flag-carrier, Thai Airways International, said that recent travel advisories against Thailand have not hurt its business just yet. Mr. Piyasvasti Amranand, President of Thai Airways International, revealed that the flag-carrier’s business has experienced a slight on-year drop of 8.9% in December 2011. He said the fall was […]
BANGKOK, 19 January 2012 (NNT) – The Foreign Ministry stated that Thailand must give USA time to revoke the terror alert while MFA officials have been appointed to clarify the situation to 18 other countries individually. Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul gave an interview regarding the US attitude that still maintains a terror alert on Thailand, […]
BANGKOK, Jan 14 – Army chief Gen Prayuth Chanocha on Saturday urged the public not to panic over recent terror threat alerts issued by foreign embassies in Bangkok, while assuring the army and related agencies are well prepared with security measures and personnel for public safety. He said undue panic can affect all business sectors […]
BANGKOK, Jan 14 – National police chief Pol Gen Prewpan Dhamapong on Saturday denied that Atris Hussein, a 48 year-old Lebanese man with suspected links to a militant group in Lebanon, was detained with urea fertiliser as an explosives ingredient. The man was apprehended for questioning on Friday at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport under the immigration […]
A powerful earthquake has hit waters off the western coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island. The U.S. Geological Survey says that the magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit Tuesday at a depth of 29 km, 423 kilometers of Banda Aceh on Sumatra.
BANGKOK, Dec 20 – Thai Minister of Public Health Witthaya Buranasiri on Tuesday said that health officials in eight southern provinces are under orders to be on high alert as tropical storm Washi, which killed over one thousand persons in the Philippines, approaches. The health minister said that Washi is expected to make landfall in […]
BANGKOK, Nov 24 — The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is on high alert keeping watch on the flood status in inner Bangkok fearing that the dismantling of the giant sandbag ‘big bag’ barrier at Don Mueang’s Directorate of Air Operations Control intersection on Phahonyothin Road could increase the water level at Kaset intersection and Lat […]
