PATTANI, Nov 18 – A soldier was killed Friday and another was injured in a bombing while patrolling restive Pattani’s Yarang district, according to local police here. The bomb blast killed Sgt Kongsin Chankampa, 43, and hurt Pvt Songkran Promtrai, 21, said Pol Col Tuanday Juthanan, superintendent of Yarang police station. An initial investigation found […]
NAKHON PHANOM, Nov 11 – Thailand’s Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on Friday presided over the inauguration of the third Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge, connecting the northeastern Thai province of Nakhon Phanom with Khammuan province in the central Lao People’s Democratic Republic. The opening ceremony took place on Nov 11 at 11.11am at the Thai-Lao border, co-chaired […]
Traffic in Bangkok was congested yesterday morning as the main waterworks canal overflowed in certain spots late on Wednesday and people living nearby moved their vehicles to elevated roads and flyovers. The canal overflowed because of runoffs from Pathum Thani and flooded Prachachuen Road near Phongphet Intersection, and people decided to park their vehicles on […]
BANGKOK 4 October, 2011 (NNT) – Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra is scheduled to visit Myanmar on Wednesday to introduce herself to Myanmar’s leader as Thailand’s new Prime Minister. During the trip, PM Yingluck and President Thein Sein will discuss important issues, including promotion of trade and investment, the opening of a permanent border crossing, drug […]
Seven passengers were killed and 20 others injured when a Transport Company bus overturned in heavy rain on a slippery road in Thoeng district of Lampang on Sunday morning, reports said. The bus was heading for Khon Kaen province when it skidded off the road between kilometre markers 638-639 at a bridge near Ban Mae […]
The reopening of a prized trade point along the Thai-Burma border will rest on Thailand’s ability to effectively clear border towns of anti-Napyidaw armed groups, Burmese officials have reportedly said. The remarks were made by Samart Loifah, the governor of Thailand’s western Tak province, during a recent press conference. He told reporters that the Burmese […]
Two cars from one of China’s new, high-speed bullet trains have derailed, falling off a bridge. China’s state-run Xinhua news agency said the train derailed late Saturday in China eastern Zhejiang province. Officials said rescue crews were on their way to the scene but they had no immediate information about possible casualties.
BANGKOK, June 1 — Investigators from the Metropolitan Police Bureau in the Thai capital are inspecting the scene and combing through closed-circuit television footage for possible images of the bomber who hurled an explosive device into the Rajdamnoen Road rally site of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), the Yellow Shirts, wounding two. Led by […]
