Montfort College School in Chiang Mai should remove shark fin soup from the menu to be served at the school’s annual party next month, says a green advocate. The president of the Lanna Bird and Nature Conservation Club, Rungsrit Kanjanavanit, says he backs the concerns of a school parent who wrote to him saying she […]
Hatching new attempts to gain the trust of people in the insurgency-plagued South, police are stepping up efforts to produce officers drawn from students of local Islamic schools, or ponoh. The Southern Border Provinces Police Operation Centre has been working with the Police Education Bureau to take students from ponoh in the three southern border […]
New zoning of entertainment venues will not affect existing premises near schools as long as they abide by the law, Justice Minister Paiboon Koomchaya said on Wednesday. Although the government does not want pubs in the vicinity of schools, when the new zoning is enforced the government will not insist that exisiting premises near schools […]
PHUKET: Police are currently looking for a gunman who yesterday afternoon (Sept 7) shot a 12-year-old schoolboy in the leg whilst he was still at school taking part in the evening parade. Thalang police received a call from staff at Thalang Hospital at 4:30pm. Read more: thephuketnews.com
A 14-year old female student who was badly gang-assaulted by her seniors and later hospitalized since late July has succumbed to her death at her hospital bed Wednesday. The victim, a Mathayom 2 student of a school in Phitsanuloke, was reportedly assaulted by a group of Mathayom 3 students on June 11. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
Fleeing prolonged conflict and persecution in Myanmar, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims or Christian Chin find themselves living as refugees in neighbouring countries in Southeast Asia. In Malaysia alone, there are an estimated 150,000 asylum seekers or refugees, mostly from Myanmar. A third of them are not registered with the United Nations Refugee Agency […]
A predawn fire at a tyre recycle factory in Sri Mahapho district of Prachinburi Tuesday morning forced an adjacent secondary school to close as wind blew poisonous smoke to cover the school. The fire happened at 5 am at an old factory that recycled old tyres for use. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
ANG THONG — A 10-year-old school boy was electrocuted to death by a malfunctioning water dispenser at a public school in Ang Thong province yesterday. Witnesses at the Wat Khok Putsa school saw the boy drinking from the water cooler in the canteen shortly before he collapsed with electrical burns to his chest and arms […]
