BANGKOK, July 24 — After signing sister airport agreements with three leading global airports earlier, Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi Airport is preparing to sign a similar accord with an American airport, Serirat Prasutanond, president of Airports of Thailand (AoT) said Friday. During a seminar Mr Serirat said that although Suvarnabhumi Airport, east of Bangkok in Samut Prakan […]
High-speed Internet, TV, phone for 400,000 households By early next year, people in Bangkok will be able to enjoy what CAT Telecom is calling its “Triple Play” – high-speed Internet, television and telephone – all from one connection to a new fibre-optic cable network. The state agency is planning to deploy a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network […]
The Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES) will advise the government to declare a state of emergency in 15 more provinces to block more red shirts from joining anti-government protests at the Rajprasong shopping area. CRES spokesman Colonel Sansern Kaewkamnerd said the new provinces were Chon Buri, Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan, Pathum Thani, […]
BANGKOK, Feb 28 (TNA) — Leaders of the anti-government Red Shirt movement, the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), said Sunday the group has no connection with the bomb incidents in the Thai capital and its neighbouring province of Samut Prakan on Saturday. They asked the government to probe both the military and police […]
Police yesterday seized 1.6 million ya ba tablets and 2 kilograms of “ice” together worth about Bt30 million from a townhouse in Samut Prakan’s Muang district. The huge haul was the latest in a series of drug raids over the past week that have netted more than 2.8 million methamphetamine pills. Yesterday’s raid was a […]
A second round of Type A (H1N1) influenza has emerged in Thailand this month, as a third of the soldiers in a Phetchabun army base and many schoolchildren in Nakhon Ratchasima, Samut Prakan and other provinces have shown flu-like symptoms. Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai said Thursday that the ministry instructed hospitals to prepare stocks […]
