DETROIT – Chevrolet today offered a sneak peek at its Colorado show truck that will officially be unveiled prior to the 32nd Bangkok International Motor Show, which begins March 25. The show truck previews the next-generation Colorado midsize pickup truck, which will build on Chevrolet’s strong truck DNA and award-winning heritage. Thailand was chosen as […]
A coach travelling to Udon Thani Province for a Royal Cremation Ceremony was involved in a road accident on Friday Night which killed 3 and injured 45 people. The accident occurred on Highway 331 in Huoy Yai on the outskirts of Pattaya and occurred when the coach hit a stationary 18-wheel truck which had stopped […]
BANGKOK, 5 March 2011 (NNT)-The 2nd Thai Royal Army has sent water trucks to help farmers in the Northeastern Thailand cope with the dry season. According to Second Region commander Lt Gen Tawatchai Samutsakorn, 19 provinces in I-San have already been affected by the drought. He stressed that each declared-water crisis province would receive a […]
Caterpillar Inc. will build a its first manufacturing plant in Thailand to produce trucks and loaders for underground mining. It’s the first capital project this year for the construction and off-road equipment builder, which unveiled an extensive series of plant expansions and construction projects during 2010. Caterpillar also last year announced a $7.6-billion takeover of […]
A Canadian couple were killed when the pickup-truck-bus they were riding in from the airport to their hotel crashed in Thailand only 15 minutes into 2011, according to Thai news reports. The Phuket Gazette reported Monday that Aryporn Sunthorn, 50, and Kongseng Sunthorn, 61, were killed when the Mazda pickup truck, modified to serve as […]
NARATHIWAT, Dec 29 – Four people were wounded by a car bomb at a Highway Department office in the violence-plagued province of Narathiwat Wednesday morning. Hidden in a pick-up truck, the bomb exploded in Bajo district, injuring four people–Abul Dueramae, 24; Uma Jeror, 69; Satorpa Uma, 50; and Masamree Naleng, 26. They were all sent […]
A stunt driver featured in The Hangover II is in a coma. The Hangover Part II features the unimaginable in Thailand. The movie is being shot in Bangkok where Australian stunt driver Scott McLean met with a car crash during filming. McLean was taken to hospital in Thailand where his coma was induced to allow […]
Three people, believed to be of the same family, were killed when a fierce fire gutted a five-storey building in Bangkok’s Bang Kho Laem district early Tuesday. The fire broke out on the third floor of the building, which sells Chinese-style vases on soi Charoenkrung 72/4 in Phrayakrai area, Bang Kho Laem district, about 1.30 […]
