Mae Sot, Thailand – When Cynthia Maung stumbled across the Thai-Myanmar border into Mae Sot in 1988 after a 10-day jungle trek to flee a military crackdown in Yangon, she planned to stay a few months at most. Twenty-two years later, Dr Maung’s Mae Tao clinic is a border institution, employing a staff of 634 […]
Four hooded suspects fire rockets at Army fuel tank No 6 after it was apparently selected as their target; Cabinet will take strike into account when it decides today on whether to extend the state of emergency Twin rockets were fired at an empty fuel tank located in an Army installation in Nonthaburi on Sunday […]
A soldier and two female teachers were wounded by a bomb explosion in Sisakhon district of Narathiwat province on Monday morning, police said. The accident occurred about 9am as a team of nine soldiers from Narathiwat Task Force 37, one on a motorcycle and the others on a humvee vehicle, was escorting teachers riding their […]
CHIANG MAI, June 17 (TNA) – An American man was arrested and alleged to have committed paedophilia, or having engaged in sex, with an underage child in this northern Thai province, according to provincial tourist police. Police found evidence that the man identified as W. W. H., 72, had sexually abused a ten-year-old female student […]
Thailand’s military has canceled plans to impose a curfew in parts of Bangkok, where troops remain locked in a tense confrontation with anti-government protesters. Army officials told reporters Sunday that the government no longer saw a need to enforce a curfew. The army had said earlier it would impose a curfew later in the day. […]
University, teacher who ran website agree it tarnished school’s image A Cal State Northridge associate professor who published an Internet guide to Thailand’s “girl scene” shut down his website Friday after he and campus administrators agreed it tarnished the university’s image. Kenneth Ng, a tenured economics professor who created BigBabyKenny.com, said he concluded it was […]
BANGKOK, Jan 25 (TNA) – Thailand’s Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC) on Monday ordered the temporary closure of schools where students reportedly contracted Influenza A(H1N1), and placed some 300 high-risk students across the country under close watch. Special Affairs Bureau director Satchathorn Wattanamongkol of the Office of the Permanent Secretary for Education said […]
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 […]
