An elderly beggar who earlier donated more than one million baht of his savings from begging to Wat Rai Khing has been expelled from the temple where he took refuge for several decades. The beggar, Mr Iam Kampeeranont or Uncle Iam, is now living alone at a small room in front of the temple in […]
KOH SAMUI: — British Ex-pat John Law is seriously ill in Koh Samui, his son Joseph Law in the UK and his mother are desperately looking for help to pay for his medical expenses, keep him alive and ultimately take him back to the UK. A Facebook page called “let’s get Joe’s Dad home” has […]
BANGKOK, 7 August 2015 (NNT) – Their Majesties the King and Queen have donated 5 million baht to Myanmar flood victims as the death tolls from landslides rose to 74. The Royal Rajaprajanugroh Foundation has been instructed to provide the fund to the Thai government in a bid to extend further assistance to the neighbouring […]
SONGKHLA — Two men who stole 150,000 baht from a Buddhist temple in southern Thailand have reportedly repented their action and plan to return the money, the temple’s abbot said. Phra Pattara Ariyo, the abbot of Na Thawee Temple, said CCTV footage shows the two men entering the temple compound on 26 July and stealing […]
BANGKOK, 27 April 2015 (NNT) – The Embassy of Nepal in Bangkok is welcoming monetary donations from Thai people through two bank accounts while affirming the search for the injured and the missing is ongoing in the quake-ravaged country. HE Mr Khaga Nath Adhikari, Nepalese Ambassador to Thailand, has given an interview in regard to […]
Flash floods have submerged about 2,600 villages and killed 150 people so far in the northern-most Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir in what is being described as the worst food the area has seen in 50 years. Heavy torrential rain in the Himalayan mountains in the past weeks caused the worst floods in 50 […]
(7 February) Pheu Thai spokesman has accused anti-government protest leader of buying lands in a southern province with donation money. According to Mr. Prompong Nopparit, his party has received information that 52 rai of land in Nakhon Si Thammarat province was purchased on 29 January with the price of 280 million baht. Read more: khaosod.co.th
BANGKOK, Feb 7 – Anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban led his supporters marching across the capital’s business district today to collect donations for protesting farmers suffering from overdue payments for the rice they have sold under the government’s rice pledging scheme. Today is Mr Suthep’s first march to pressure the caretaker government of Yingluck Shinawatra […]
