BANGKOK, Sept 8 – After educators voted yesterday for a three-day closure in response to the killing of two Narathiwat teachers, 365 schools in ‘red zones’ in this southernmost Thai border province Wednesday began the first day of a closure intended to send a message to Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat who said he is seeking […]
BANGKOK, 5 September 2010 (NNT) – Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has tasked the Ministry of Education with presenting proactive plans to tackle gangster students and their street brawls after a nine-year-old boy was shot dead during a fight last week. Speaking in his weekly television program “Confidence in Thailand with Prime Minister Abhisit” airing from […]
Police are pressing child molestation charges against two teachers in Surat Thani province, while another two teachers in Nakhon Si Thammarat are being investigated for allegedly sexually abusing 21 female students. Police have charged the deputy director of Surat Thani’s Kanjanadit Wittayakom School with child sexual abuse after being alleged of luring a Grade 11 […]
Two students of Bangkapi Technical school were arrested on Thursday for the murder of a 9-year-old schoolboy on a bus on Wednesday morning, police said. The two — aged 16 and 19 — were charged with intentionally killing a person, illegally possessing guns and amulets, and having guns in a public area, police said. They […]
An eight-year-old schoolboy was killed in a shooting at a bus by a number of technical school students on Ramkhamhaeng road on Wednesday morning, police reported. Police said the shooting took place about 7am. A group of youths dressed in technical school uniforms followed bus No 113 (Min Buri-Hua Lamphong) on motorcycles along Ramkhamhaeng road. […]
Secretly recorded mobile phone footage has exposed a teacher at a Catholic boarding school in north-eastern Thailand who whacked dozens of students on the buttocks with a cane wrapped with electrical wire. Art teacher Somchai Limthanmaporn was fired after he was exposed hitting at least 40 students, according to Nongkran Prathumtri, an administrator at St […]
NA CHUEAK, THAILAND — Three months ago, images of protesters battling the military in the streets of Bangkok seized the world’s attention. Now, by some measures, Thailand is bouncing back: the country’s economy is projected to grow as fast as 7.5 percent this year, and the government is pushing ahead with a program of “reconciliation” […]
Two people were killed and four wounded in three separate gun attacks, believed to be by insurgents, in Pattani province from late Sunday night to Monday morning, police reported. About 10pm on Sunday an assistant village chief was attacked by an unknown number of gunmen hiding on the roadside near Ban Khao Tum in Yarang […]
