A 14-year-old Thai girl, who lost her leg to a speeding subway train in Singapore on Sunday, has undergone surgery and in a stable condition, Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Thani Thongpakdi said Monday. “Unfortunately, she has to lose one of her legs,” he said, adding that the ministry had provided for some relatives to visit her. […]
The Thai embassy in Tokyo is focusing on helping 832 Thais who are unaccounted for in the worst-affected parts of tsunami-hit Japan. The ministry reported on Thursday that about 5,000 Thais were unaccounted for in Japan. However, the latest check found only 832 Thais living in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, which were the worst […]
BANGKOK, March 17 — Two Royal Thai Air Force C-130 aircraft will leave Bangkok tonight to carry relief aid to Japan to help victims affected by the destructive earthquake and massive tsunami last weekend,now estimated to have killed at least 5,000 people along the battered east coast of Honshu Island. Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) […]
BANGKOK, March 17 — A plan has been prepared to evacuate Thai citizens from Japan in the wake of last week’s devastating earthquake, massive tsunami and a series of explosions at the earthquake-hit Fukushima nuclear power complex in Japan, according to Thai Minister of Foreign Affairs Kasit Piromya. Mr Kasit said that the Thai embassy […]
Police arrested members of a gang operating a scam call centre at a house in Bangkok on Tuesday afternoon. Crime Suppression Division police, led by Pol Col Piya Charoensuk, commander of the CSD division 1, raided a house in Soi Preedeepanomyong 36 on Sukhumvit Road, believed to be a scam call centre office. Three Canadians, […]
THE revelation of a sixth death and the results of an investigation by Thailand’s Department of Disease Control has shed new light on the series of mysterious fatalities in Chiang Mai. The sixth death involved a Frenchwoman – one of two who fell sick, a media release from the department says. It highlighted the exceptional […]
Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) launched a new WAP and iPhone application for tourists called “Speak Thai”. (Vocus) October 1, 2010 Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) launched a new mobile application called “Speak Thai”; this application is available in WAP version for all mobile phone users, furthermore for iPhone users this application is available as […]
One of the toughest things about travelling to Thailand is the language barrier. Even the most confident linguist can get their tongue caught up in knots as they try to work out the tones and nuances of the Thai language.
However, all that may soon be…
