The popular Soi 6 entertainment zone was on lock-down on Monday Night as District Officers conducted license checks on bars and urine tests on employees. Officers blocked the two ends of the street which is located in Central Pattaya and began by inspecting the licenses of each venue and ensuring that no minors were working […]
The United States says North Korea has agreed to a moratorium on long-range missile launches, nuclear testing and uranium enrichment activities. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Wednesday that Pyongyang has also agreed to allow international inspectors to verify and monitor the enrichment moratorium, and to confirm that a nuclear reactor at Yongbyon has been […]
BANGKOK, Feb 9 – The eco-friendly Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft arrived Thailand on Thursday morning and the test-run flight is to take off Friday from Suvarnabhumi Airport to the northern province of Chiang Mai. Boeing launched its latest aircraft, flying from Seattle in the United States, as a new innovation focusing on energy savings. The […]
Thai Airways International’s Asia’s first passenger biofuels flight confirms the airline’s commitment toward green travelling and the Thai authorities’ effort to reduce greenhouse gas emission. THAI President Piyasvasti Amranand said that the experimental flight echoes the airline’s CSR policy. Read more: The Nation By The Nation
A Canadian was one of 15 people arrested at a Police Checkpoint in Soi Beokeow in the early hours of Tuesday. Mr. Dean Ahoneus aged 34 was allegedly caught with a bag of the class 5 drug Marijuana and was subsequently arrested and taken to Pattaya Police with the other 14 individuals. Read more: Pattaya […]
The Department of Medical Science has invented a new technique called in-house DNA-PCR which was developed to detect HIV infection in new born babies. It is easy and accurate and could be carried out in remote areas. Deputy Director General of the Department MD Pratom Sawanpanyalert said the method was considered to cheaper for the […]
Lab tests on samples from a foreigner found dead at an Udon Thani hotel have detected an E. coli strain, but confirmation is pending on whether it was a communicable type, Public Health Ministry permanent secretary Dr Phaijit Warachit said yesterday. Tests of the unnamed tourist’s blood and urine detected a bacteria called Plesiomonas shigelloides, […]
BANGKOK, June 13 – Lab test results found no bacteria of the deadly E. coli O104 strain in Kohlrabi imported from Belgium, said Dr Pipat Yingseri, secretary-general of Thailand’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA stepped up measures to check fresh fruit and vegetables from Germany, such as blueberries and raspberries. Samples of soft […]
