Thailand’s Transport Ministry is set to hold construction bidding for ten new Skytrain routes linking the city with its suburbs by the end of this year. Transport Minister Admiral Sukhampol Suwannathat said the government is currently expediting a plan to construct ten new Skytrain routes connecting Bangkok to the suburbs. The ten new routes are […]
BANGKOK, Aug 10 – The royal plane impounded in Germany was released after the Thai government posted a 38 million Euro bond in a long-standing dispute with German company Walter Bau AG, former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Tuesday. German insolvency officials seized a Boeing 737 used by Thailand’s Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn while […]
BANGKOK, Aug 1 – Thailand’s Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn has offered his personal assets to settle a long-running dispute between the Thai government and a German company. German insolvency officials seized a Boeing 737 used by the Crown Prince while it was parked at Munich airport in southern Germany on July 12. The move was […]
Bangkok Don Muang Airport is moving its domestic flight operation to the revamped Terminal 1 starting August 1 as it is believed to be more efficient and can facilitate some 16 million passengers per year. The Airports of Thailand’s Don Muang Airport Director Wing Commander Pratheep Wichittho said that the 13-million baht revamp of Don […]
A Sripathum University student lost control of the car he was driving while reaching for a cell phone and fatally hit a street sweeper in Bangkok’s Don Muang district Tuesday morning, police say Arriving at the scene on inbound Vibhavadi-Rangsit road at 6.30am, they found fourth-year student Worakorn Limplew and the dead body of city […]
BANGKOK, June 6 – Sondhi Limthongkul, a core leader of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), also known as the Yellow Shirt movement, reported to police on Monday to acknowledge charges in relation to the seizure of Thailand’s two main airports in 2008. Mr Sondhi rejected all the charges, and the prosecutor set July 8 […]
In another raid yesterday under the government’s drug suppression policy, four suspected dealers and six users were arrested and 52 amphetamine tablets seized at a slum in Bangkok near Don Mueang airport. One suspect was a 16 year old male, and three others were identified as Itthirit Janthabal, Jaturong Duangphattra, and Jakkraphob Bunsaeng, who claimed […]
The Civil Court on Friday ordered the 13 leaders of the People’s Alliance for Democracy to pay US$17 million (Bt522 million) damage in connection with the seizure of Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang airports in 2008. The list of PAD leaders liable for damage payment included Chamlong Srimuang and Sondhi Limthongkul. In the street protests to […]
