BANGKOK, Dec 25 — A key leader of the anti-government movement insisted Saturday that documents which he had leaked to the public regarding troops killing anti-government protesters earlier this year were genuine and that he was ready to reveal them all during a debate in the lower house as he has parliamentary immunity. Jatuporn Prompan, […]
A Japanese woman was found dead after she fell from her room on the eighth floor of a condominium in Pattaya on Friday night. Police said they found no signs of foul play. Nobuko Wachida , 63, had lived with her husband at the condominium Yoshikasu Wachida, 67, for years. On Friday before she fell […]
BANGKOK, Dec 15 — A senior Japanese embassy official on Wednesday met National Police Chief Pol Gen Wichean Potephosree to ask the Thai authorities to speed up their investigation into the death of a Japanese cameraman killed during Red Shirt protest. Cameraman Hiroyuki Muramoto of the Reuters news agency was shot dead while filming the […]
The head of the Department of Special Investigation disputed claims yesterday by a Pheu Thai MP adisputed claims a red-shirt activist made to the Japanese Embassy in Bangkok on the death of a Japanese photographer during the anti-government rallies earlier this year. DSI director-general Tharit Pengdit, as chief investigator into the shooting, said initial verification […]
Leaked investigation contradicts Thai Prime Minister, who had blamed six gunshot deaths on protesters taking sanctuary An official investigation into the deaths of protesters taking refuge in a Buddhist temple that had been declared a safe haven during Thailand’s Red Shirt demonstrations in May this year has found that special forces were probably responsible. This […]
TAK, Nov 7– Myanmar soldiers were deployed along Thai-Myanmar border at the Moei River after a Japanese journalist was arrested in Myanmar’s Myawaddy for illegally crossing the border from Thailand. Responding to the detention of the Japanese journalist late Sunday morning, the combined forces of Myanmar military and Border Guard Force personnel have been stationed […]
Japanese automakers are veering around to the idea of using Thailand as a global hub for their compact cars in the Asia-Pacific region and parts of Europe. In contrast, India’s domestic market will be top priority though exports could be conceived later. Importing fully built up cars back to Japan from Thailand is also emerging […]
Thai Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced to death a man who killed a woman and her five-year-old son before mutilating his body. Siriphong Kanjananiwit, 40, a taxi driver, was found guilty for murdering Sunan Srisusan, 38, and her Thai-Japanese son Cho Makino. He mutilated the boy’s body and put them on plastic bag to cover-up […]
