Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) deputy governor Theerachon Manomaipibul yesterday said that seven street-roaming elephants were impounded in separate cases this month, mostly in the suburbs. Despite the authorities’ attempts to solve the street-roaming elephant issue, elephants were still being brought to beg in the Greater Bangkok area, with their mahouts taking them to rest in […]
CHON BURI : A three-year-old girl who was reported missing from her home in Samut Prakan province early this month has been found by an alert family in Chon Buri 60km away where she was made to beg for money. At about 9pm on Tuesday, the Muang district police station in Chon Buri was alerted […]
Thailand’s Transport Ministry is set to hold construction bidding for ten new Skytrain routes linking the city with its suburbs by the end of this year. Transport Minister Admiral Sukhampol Suwannathat said the government is currently expediting a plan to construct ten new Skytrain routes connecting Bangkok to the suburbs. The ten new routes are […]
BANGKOK, 6 August 2011 (NNT) – The Ministry of Public Health has instructed all hospitals under its supervision in 13 provinces along the Chao Phraya and the Pa Sak Rivers to be ready to safeguard their facilities against floodwater from the North. Permanent Secretary for Public Health MD Paichit Warachit today paid a visit to […]
BANGKOK, 17 July 2011 (NNT) – Pheu Thai Spokesperson Mr. Prompong Nopparit said more evidence to support its claim against the Democrat party for violating electoral law would be submitted to the Election Commission of Thailand. According to the claim by Pheu Thai, the Blue Flag event, which was held in Samut Prakan province a […]
BANGKOK, June 14 – Samut Prakan, immediately east-southeast of the capital, has been identified as Thailand’s most likely province to experience political violence in the lead up to the July 3 general election as likely to rise in other areas designated as ‘red zones’ which are at risk of election-related violence. The province also is […]
Samut Prakarn – Three technical school students were severely injured when students of a rival school threw a homemade bomb at them while they were riding a bus to school Thursday morning. Police said the attack occurred on a No-133 bus when it stopped at a bus stop in Bang Plee Muang Mai in Samut […]
Thai police believe homemade device probably not intended to kill In what seems to be becoming customary, preelection violence has begun to escalate. A canvasser for a potential Pheu Thai Party candidate was the target of a grenade attack at her home in Samut Prakan yesterday, three days after veteran MP Pracha Prasobdee of the […]
