PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN, March 24 – Thai domestic airline Solar Air is opening a new route from Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport to the seaside resort of Hua Hin in this southern province, according to managing director Jirathit Aungaree. He said the auspicious flight is set before the soon to come Thai new year, or ‘Songkran […]
The Juvenile Litigation Department approves the request by a 17 year old woman charged in a reckless driving case that left nine people dead last December to delay the indictment to allow further investigation into possible fault by another driver involved in the accident. Special prosecutor of the Juvenile and Family Litigation Department, Suphak Sitthiwanich, […]
New service aimed at foreigners who went to wrong airport by mistake BANGKOK – Thai Airways today announced the launch of service between Bangkok’s Don Muang Airport and Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport. Beginning April 30, passengers can fly six times daily from one side of Bangkok to the other in under an hour. “Last year alone […]
The public prosecutors on Wednesday filed a criminal suit charging Police Sergeant Parinya Maneekot for illegal possession with the intent to trafficking of 62 40mm grenades produced for M-79 grenade launchers. Parinya, of the Kukot police station in Pathum Thani, was arrested on April 28 last year at a checkpoint near Don Mueang Airport on […]
BANGKOK, 8 March 2011 (NNT) – The Department of Land Transport has launched a campaign to promote driving disciplines among 200 van drivers to reduce accidents on toll ways. The Department, in cooperation with Donmuang toll way Public Company Limited, is organizing a seminar for passenger van operators as well as their drivers in an […]
BANGKOK, 8 March 2011 (NNT) – The Royal Thai Air Force has dispatched aircraft to perform rainmaking operations in drought-affected provinces across the country. Air Force Commander-in-Chief Air Chief Marshal Ittiporn Suppawong presided over the ceremony to release aircraft of the royal rainmaking unit at Squadron 601, Wing 6, Don Muang Air Force Base. In […]
Key member arrested over airport seizures A key member of the People’s Alliance for Democracy has been arrested on outstanding charges stemming from the movement’s seizure in 2008 of Bangkok’s two commercial airports. The arrest last night comes as the PAD announced it is planning a major rally on Saturday to try to force the […]
Chaiwat Sinsuwong and Somboon Thongburan, two former yellow-shirt leaders facing terrorism charges over the seizure of two Bangkok airports in 2008, were arrested yesterday during a protest against the jailing of seven Thais in Cambodia. Crime Suppression police nabbed the two after Chaiwat had earlier dared the police to arrest him. It was unclear why […]
