BANGKOK, Oct 10 – Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said it needs not announce a national disaster at the moment, but has ordered canal dredging and reinforcement of flood prevention embankments to protect Bangkok from flooding. After chairing a meeting on responding to the flood situation at the national flood relief centre at Don Mueang […]
BANGKOK, Oct 7 – Thai government has set up an integrated operations centre at Don Mueang Airport as flooding in Ayutthaya closed a section of the Asian Highway in the province, Thailand’s main route to the North. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra convened a meeting at Don Mueang Airport at 10am Friday to tackle the flood […]
Residents living along nine areas in East Bangkok are warned of floods, according to the National Disaster Centre. As tide rises in the capital city, the centre at 3pm said in the latest warning that some areas could experience water overflows chiefly in nine areas – Khlong Bang Phrom, Khong Chimphlee (Buddhamondhol 1), Khlong Bang […]
BANGKOK, 7 October 2011 (NNT) – People in 28 provinces of Thailand, mostly in the North, the Northeast and the central region are still affected by floods, and at least 252 people have lost their lives in a series of depressions which hit the country one after another since tropical storm Nock-Ten swept through Southeast […]
BANGKOK, Thailand — The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency may have used Bangkok’s former Don Muang International Airport as its secret prison to torture a suspected Muslim terrorist, the first time a specific location has ever been described within Thailand, according to statements by the Libyan who survived. It was impossible to immediately confirm Abdel Hakim […]
BANGKOK, 21 September 2011 (NNT) – The Ministry of Transport is pushing for an expansion of Airport rail line with more stations to be added to Don Mueang and from the airport to Pattaya, Chon Buri province. In opening of the new dimension of the airport rail service, Deputy Transport Minister Mr. Kittisak Hattasongkroh said […]
BANGKOK, Sept 15 – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will leave Bangkok for the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh on an official one day introductory visit after assuming her post last month and to strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation with Cambodia. Ms Yingluck was scheduled to depart Bangkok from Don Mueang Royal Thai Air Force […]
A member of the yellow-shirt movement denied legal charges against him over his group’s airport protests in 2008, after officials visited his home to inform him of the charges and interrogate him. Investigators from the Crime Suppression Division today met with a man affiliated with the People’s Alliance for Democracy, Pramote Nakhonthap, at his home […]
