Chula lecturers put record straight with latest forecasts Following a report that Bangkok might be under seawater in 20 years’ time and suggestions that the capital should be moved to the Northeast, Chulalongkorn University lecturers yesterday countered with advice that the public should not panic over such claims. They said it would take 100 years […]
A hard up University computer science graduate set up a fake Facebook account using a celebrity’s name and defrauded many victims of several hundred thousand baht. Bangkok, the 4th of December 2010: At 10.00 pm on Saturday, Police Colonel Wattana Yee Jin and his team announced the arrest of Miss Sukanya Saichompoo, 23, on charges […]
Police are checking video footage from closed-circuit cameras on a Bangkok expressway in a bid to determine the cause of Sunday’s horror van crash, which killed nine passengers. The driver of the van, who had 16 passengers on board, looks set to face a raft of charges, including reckless driving causing death, police said yesterday. […]
BANGKOK, Oct 23- Thailand’s 82-year-old monarch made an appearance along with Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn late Saturday afternoon to lay a wreath at the King Rama V Statue at Siriraj Hospital, marking the 100th anniversary of Chulalongkorn Day. In a pink suit with a white-pink striped shirt and grey pants, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej […]
The weather phenomenon known as La Nina will have an impact this year not seen in decades, resulting in a temperature drop in Thailand of 2 degrees Celsius, according to a study supervised by Chulalongkorn University. La Nina will also result in a premature wet season, in addition to a 30-year-record drop in temperature, researcher […]
His Majesty the King, Bhumibol Adulyadej, visited HM Queen Sirikit at Chulalongkorn Hospital yesterday evening. On the advice of a medical team, Her Majesty was admitted to the hospital late on Thursday for a comprehensive checkup. His Majesty, meanwhile, has been receiving treatment at Siriraj Hospital for a year. To visit the Queen, His Majesty […]
On the fourth anniversary of the coup today to oust the Thaksin government, we examine the price the country has paid in financial terms and democratic aspirations since the day the tanks rolled out. Four years on, the legacy of the coup to oust former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra lingers in a country where political […]
BANGKOK, July 16 – King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital managers on Friday introduced the first Thai-made robot to help facilitate blood collecting tubes for blood-drawing procedures in hospital. Hospital director Dr Adisorn Patradul and Dr Thewarug Werawatganon, assistant director of Patient Support Service, said at a press conference that the robotic innovation was the brainchild of […]
