Thailand could become a regional aviation hub if the government can come up with a clear strategy and action plan, plus upgrades in services of such key players as Thai Airways International and Airports of Thailand (AOT), as well as a reboot of Thai hospitality. At a roundtable titled “Thailand: An Opportunity to Be a […]
A Malaysian newspaper has apologized for printing a caricature of Japanese cartoon superhero Ultraman comically trying to outrun a tsunami. Malaysians reacted with a tirade of anger after the Malay-language Berita Harian daily newspaper published the cartoon Sunday. Critics vented on Twitter and Facebook and some called for a boycott of the paper. News source […]
Reported in yesterday’s Thai Rath that an Australian, Ronald Wayne Martin was shot dead outside his rural home in Petchabun. The Thai gunman’s wife had apparently absconded with another farang some time ago and he told police that he hated all farang and wanted to kill one. There is a photo of Martin’s Thai wife […]
A Danish man, Lars Toft Jensen, died Tuesday at the Bangkok Pattaya Hospital, after he engaged in fight with two or three English men. writes the Danish tabloid Ekstrabladet.dk The Danish paper writes the story about an almost innocent Dane, who just arrived from Denmark with his Thai wife and their three weeks old baby. […]
Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director of independent online newspaper prachatai.com was released on bail yesterday after her relatives posted Bt200,000 bail with Khon Kaen police. Police said the 43 year-old webmaster was arrested at Suvarnabhumi International Airport on Friday after her arrival from Finland, following an arrest warrant from Khon Kaen Provincial Court. She was accused of […]
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in a 2006 coup and campaigning against his political opponents from abroad since, staged a meeting with seven Thai opposition leaders in Moscow, Kommersant reported. Thaksin discussed a new street protest in Bangkok that took place Sunday, a Thai lawmaker told the local Bangkok Post newspaper, the report […]
A Thai diplomat in a northern Malaysian state has said his countrymen working in Malaysia are funding insurgents in Thailand’s restive southern provinces, according to a report Friday. Thai consul general Surapon Petch-Vra, who is based in Kelantan state, told the New Straits Times newspaper Thai workers have been sending back money to groups involved […]
Well-known Swedish Businessman Killed in Bangkok Johan Winlöf, 45, has been killed in Bangkok, and his Thai wife is suspected to have killed her husband with a knife. ”A police investigation has already started, Anders Jörle, press officer at the Swedish ministry of foreign affairs confirm to the newspaper. The man had been living and […]
