The death toll in the series of three bomb attacks that rocked Thailand’s Narathiwat Sungai Kolok district on September 16 has risen to six after a journalist succumbed to his injuries yesterday. Meanwhile, soldiers yesterday interrogated two suspects in a separate bomb attack on Friday at a school in the same province. Read more: The […]
BANGKOK, 29 August 2011 (NNT) – The Pheu Thai Party has dismissed the rumour that Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul was to request the British authorities to grant a visa for ex-Prime Minister Police Lieutenant Colonel Thaksin Shinawatra. Pheu Thai Party Spokesperson Prompong Nopparit criticised the Democrat Party, particularly Acting Democrat Party Spokesperson Chavanond Intarakomalyasut, for […]
A young TV reporter for the ThaiPBS station was killed in a road accident in Nakhon Ratchasima while on her way back from covering a report on people affected by the Rasi Salai Dam. The accident also injured a TV cameraman and his assistant cameraman/driver. Issarawan Jamlongpeng, a 23-year-old reporter, was thrown from the car […]
BANGKOK, Aug 22 – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Monday declined to answer today’s doorstep media questions saying some issues were merely created for politically-motivated purposes. The Thai premier’s latest move came as she refused to answer media questions but instead posted messages gathering her comments on her Facebook social network page stating that […]
The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists called Friday on Thai authorities to drop lese-majeste charges filed against an editor that could lead to a 30-year-jail sentence. “The growing official use of lese-majesty charges to stifle free expression has greatly undermined Thailand’s democratic credentials and done more harm than good to the royal institution the laws […]
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday that the recent actions by Turkey to arrest and detain journalists in the country, as well as planned Internet restrictions, are “an area of concern” for her. Clinton is on a two-day visit to Turkey and made some of her comments during a news conference […]
A court in Burma has convicted the Australian publisher of the Myanmar Times of minor assault and immigration violations. The charges Myanmar Times publisher Ross Dunkley was convicted of assault and immigration violations, but released in recognition of time served in jail while awaiting trial. Dunkley said the verdict was ridiculous and he would appeal. […]
BANGKOK, June 12 — Thailand’s Election Commission (EC) is considering a request by the European Union (EU) to send its officials to monitor a general election to be held in the country on July 3 with permission likely to be granted, an EC official said Sunday. Election Commissioner Prapan Naikowit told journalists that the EU […]
