BANGKOK, April 6 — The value of trade between Thailand and India is expected to rise to US$10 billion next year, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva reported following his one-day official visit to New Delhi. Mr Abhisit’s visit to India, his first after becoming prime minister in 2008, ended late Tuesday. Read more: MCOT
India’s 2011 census reports that its population has increased by 181 million in the space of one decade, a figure 17.6 percent greater than 2001. The census results, publicised today, show the population of India now stands at 1.21 billion. C. Chandramauli, the commissioner of the census, said India’s population represents “over 17 percent of […]
The Office of Basic Education Commission (Obec) will seek a Bt350million budget to hire 300 native English-speaking teachers for its primary and secondary schools to tackle the shortage of English teachers, a senior official said yesterday. According to the proposal, the native speakers would each get about Bt1 million per year – a salary of […]
Thai authorities Thursday inspected Wat Talom in Bangkok’s Phasi Charoen district following complaints that 400 foreign Buddhist monks there took alms in the afternoon and selling offerings. Immigration Bureau officials, police and Office of National Buddhism found that many foreign monks – from other countries such as Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Laos – […]
BANGKOK, 11 March 2011 (NNT) – Thailand is found to provide the highest opportunities for women to hold executive positions in private organizations compared with others in the world, according to the 2011 annual business report of Grant Thornton. 45% of the Thai executives are found to be women, which is the highest in the […]
A gang of British residents has been found guilty of helping eight illegal immigrants travel to the United Kingdom on flights from Bangkok and received prison sentences totalling 29 years, at a court in London, earlier this month. The eight week trial was the culmination of a two year investigation by UK law enforcement agencies […]
MORE boatpeople are reported to be sailing south as doubts are being cast on Thailand’s version of how 91 Rohingya who originally landed in Thailand ended up 700 kilometres away in Indian territory. The boatload of men and boys first landed on the Andaman coast, south of Phuket, before being trucked to Ranong, north of […]
BANGKOK, 18 February 2011 (NNT) – Thailand’s first clay monastery will be built as a tribute to His Majesty the King on the occasion of His 84th Birthday Anniversary. According to the Office of the Secretary of the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, His Holiness Somdej Phra Nyanasamvara, the Supreme Patriarch, has accepted to be the […]
