The 14 train services to the three southernmost provinces resumed Saturday after being suspended, pending repairs after bomb attacks on Wednesday in Narathiwat’s Ra Ngae district. The Southern Railway Office also beefed up security by having five fully-armed railway police and security volunteers onboard each train, while security officers also patrolled the route prior to […]
BANGKOK, 29 July 2011 (NNT) – The Royal Thai Police is ready to dispatch over 1,600 officers to secure by-elections in Nong Khai and Sukhothai as well as the ballot recount in Yala on 31 July, believing the situation will be peaceful. Ahead of the two by-elections to be held this Sunday for Constituency 2 […]
When Yingluck Shinawatra takes up her post as leader of the new government, Thailand won’t just have a female prime minister. Her bodyguards, too, are likely to be drawn from the fairer sex. “Female bodyguards are able to remain closer to female VIPs,” said Pol Lt-Colonel Korakarn Arunplod, who is among the first generation of […]
BANGKOK, 23 June 2011 (NNT) – Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban has clarified to the Thai people at Ratchaprasong Intersection that the black-clad assailants during the 2010 political mayhem were, in fact, security guards of the red-shirt group. In his capacity as the Democrat Secretary-General, Mr Suthep made the opening speech on stage at Ratchaprasong […]
BANGKOK, June 23 – A large crowd gathered at Ratchaprasong, Bangkok’s prime business and shopping area, Thursday evening to join a major election campaign rally for Thailand’s oldest political party, the Democrat Party, with less than two weeks to go until the July 3 general election. Despite rains, the Democrat supporters turned up in substantial […]
BANGKOK, 20 June (NNT)-Democrat Secretary-General Mr. Suthep Thuagsuban has assured voters that the election will take place as scheduled while predicting that minor disruptions could be expected during the polls but they will not be extreme. Meanwhile, Mr. Suthep spoke of the Democrat campaign, scheduled to be held at Rachaprasong Intersection on Thursday, that it […]
Four soldiers were killed in an ambush late yesterday evening in Pattani, not far from a busy market they and fellow patrol members were stationed to provide security for shoppers. All individual weapons and one side arm belonged to them were snatched by a team of insurgents, who disguised in civilian clothes as local shoppers, […]
CHIANG MAI, June 13 – A gunman on Monday shot at the house of ex-Rak Chiang Mai ‘Love Chiang Mai 51’ security guard Niyom Lueangcharoen, 51, but the former Red Shirt faction member was unscathed. Also known as disc jockey Lae, Mr Niyom was unhurt as he spotted the attacker first and escaped when an […]
