An 18 year old student who was rushing to get to her school where she was due to take an exam, was killed in a high speed road accident which left a passenger in her car and the driver of a pick-up with serious injuries. Police and rescue services were called to the scene of […]
Five transvestite newly graduates of Thammasat University have been allowed to be dressed as girl students for the royally-sponsored commencement at the end of this month, Thai Rath reported. The paper said the university has consulted with the Royal Household Bureau about the wish of five students, who were born men, to get dressed as […]
Posters featuring photos of animals and their names have always been an important means to educate young students in Bangkok and rural areas about living things. All that is changing with the arrival of computer tablets. Natthawut Chanda, a 7-year-old boy in Prathom 1/3 of Darakam School in Bangkok, now sees moving pictures of such […]
Bangkok Governor Sukhum-bhand Paribatra yesterday promised to have more than 20,000 security cameras up and running across the capital before the end of this year. So far, half of them are already in place. “We will install 10,000 more,” he said, adding that many of these cameras would be installed in areas where student brawls […]
City police Thursday rounded up 41 students at Krungthon Technology School from a crowded bus in front of the Dao Khanong Market in Bangkok’s Thon Buri area. A search found 25 students were carrying knives, which they claimed was for self-defence against rival students who often ambushed them. Read more: The Nation
Pathom 1 students in eight provinces are set to get their hands on tablet computers under the government’s One Tablet Per Child (OTPD) project very soon. “We will have 55,712 tablets dispatched to their schools by Friday,” Education Minister Suchart Tadathamrongvej said yesterday. Read more: The Nation
BANGKOK, July 17 – Twenty-nine schools run by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) were closed Tuesday due to the spread of the hand, foot and mouth disease, according to a senior BMA Department of Health official. Communicable Disease Control Division director Wongwat Liulak said that 18 schools are totally closed while 11 schools suspended some […]
BANGKOK, July 16 – Cambodia’s threatened epidemic of hand-foot-mouth disease has passed its critical point and is now controllable, but Thailand remains on alert during its encounter with the epidemic, Bureau of Epidemiology director Dr Pasakorn Akarasewi said on Monday. He noted the outbreak in the neighbouring country should decline within 45 days, while the […]
