As the world changes, people’s lifestyles also change, including sexual behaviour and family structure. A recent research by the Institute for Population and Social Research of Mahidol University has reported a surprising finding. According to Thai Institute for Population and Social Research Deputy Director Assoc Prof Kritaya Archavanitkul, sexual behaviour in Thailand in the past […]
The on-going flooding has so far killed 69 people, Thailand’s Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department announced Wednesday. Phanu Yaemsri, the director of the Disaster Mitigation Centre, said so far 12 provinces were still being affected by floods. Abut 460,000 people from some 146,000 families in 2,367 of the provinces were still suffering from the floods. […]
Panaji, Aug 19 – Arguably called the sex tourism capital of the world, Thailand is now deliberately using the family tourism label to shed the sex destination tag, a Thai diplomat said here Friday. Speaking to IANS on the sidelines of an event organised in Panaji to promote Thailand as a tourism destination, Tomwit Jarnson, […]
Thailand’s Department of Social Development and Welfare’s Viengping Home is looking for 20 families to join its foster home project. The home’s superintendent head, Jiraporn Chaoprayoon Yamamoto said the home, covering 17 northern provinces, has in its care 580 children and youths, who were abandoned since birth, or whose parents were in prison or were […]
Three more people were found dead in a landslide that slammed into a village in Mae Hong Son’s Sop Moei district early this week, governor Kamthorn Thavornsathit said yesterday. The latest victims were members of the Muentum family, identified as Prawit, 34, Takari, 48, and Lah, 74. They were buried near their home in Ban […]
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is ‘smelling the breeze’ on the resort island of Samui, his first Songkran holiday with his family in more than two years in office. In a brief interview with reporters before leaving Bangkok for Surat Thani province, the prime minister appeared optimistic for the 2011 Thai traditional new year after “the […]
Khun Fah, the 20-year-old winner of the recent Miss Thailand Universe title, came home to Sattahip on Wednesday to receive the congratulations of her parents and other family members and hordes of well wishers. Naturally, the extremely statuesque beauty stood out from the crowd, and among the many gifts she received was a stuffed toy […]
Serial killer Somkid Pumpoung Monday was sentenced to life for the June 2005 murder of a cafe singer in Trang’s Muang district. At the Ratchadaphisek Criminal Court, the public prosecutor said that Somkid, 42, who allegedly robbed and killed five sex workers, strangled Patcharee Amataniran and made off with her Bt1,000 mobile phone and Bt2,000 […]
