Two female students at a vocational school in Pattaya rode their motorbike through a check point without stopping. Moments later they were stopped and searched. The police found 400 amphetamine tablets hidden under the seat. They say they are not guilty. Pattaya, January 19, 2012 [PDN]; At 12:15 Pol. Col. Somneuk Jankate, Banglamung police station […]
Muslim students are not violating the Education Ministry’s dress code by wearing a headscarf or the hijab, Education Minister Woravat Auapinyakul said yesterday. He said this in response to a rally held yesterday by a Muslim group, which was protesting against two students being suspended by Wat Nong Chok School for wearing a headscarf in […]
SONGKHLA, 3 January 2012 (NNT) – Hat Yai district of Songkhla province has kicked off a ‘Big Cleaning Day’ activity as the flood situation in all areas has returned to normal. In the wake of a previous overflow from the Ror 1 Canal, all communities of Hat Yai have finally dried out while Phetkasem Road […]
YALA, Jan 3 – A nine-year old girl reportedly drowned in Yala as heavy rainfall triggered flooding in nine southern provinces, according to Thailand’s Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department. The child, identified as Sareeta Sa-u, drowned in Yala in a raging river. Homes, schools and government offices have been submerged, affecting over 50,000 people. Read […]
YALA, Dec 27 – One Thai Army soldier in a teacher protection unit was killed and another was wounded in a bomb ambush this morning in the southern border province of Yala. Sergeant Major 1st Class Pradit Saranatri, head of the teacher protection unit, led his motorcycle-mounted team of six men as security for teachers […]
A Lampang schoolgirl yesterday was chased by two men on a motorcycle who were after her gold necklace, but she managed to knock one of them out with her helmet while the other one stabbed her repeatedly before fleeing. Phawinee Inthiya, 17, a twelfth grader at the prestigious Lampang Kalyanee School, was under intensive hospital […]
Computer giant Apple has expressed interest in making a deal to supply its tablet computers to the Education Ministry for use in Thai schools. A delegation from Apple Inc met Education Minister Woravat Au-apinyakul on Monday and proposed that its products could benefit the ministry’s student tablet project. Read more: Bangkok Post
Tens of thousands of undocumented immigrant children in the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo Island are not being allowed to go to school. Efforts to change this are under way. Early this year, a community-built education center at a refugee village was inaugurated for 300 undocumented children who previously had never attended school. With […]
