Police investigators and forensic officers escorted a murder suspect, his current spouse and former spouse, to four locations in Bang Sue and Sai Mai areas today (Wednesday), where four children,…
Read MorePolice investigators and forensic officers escorted a murder suspect, his current spouse and former spouse, to four locations in Bang Sue and Sai Mai areas today (Wednesday), where four children,…
Read MoreSi Thep, Thailand – Under the scorching sun, Thai archaeologist Tanachaya Tiandee clambers through ruined pagodas in the ancient town of Si Thep, trying to unlock their mysteries — a task made harder because…
Read MoreOil companies in Thailand should not take too much profit from consumers, to avoid inducing suffering, said Energy Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga today (Wednesday). The minister went to Customs Department to…
Read MoreAn anti-narcotics police officer and a suspected drug trafficker were killed and another officer was injured in a gun battle following a car chase in Mueang district of the northern…
Read MoreThailand’s Si Thep historical park, in the northern province of Phetchabun, has been recognised as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site at the World Heritage Committee’s 45th extended session in…
Read MorePaetongtarn, the youngest daughter of convicted former prime minister Thaksin, said today (Tuesday) that she is ready to become the leader of the Pheu Thai party, if it is the…
Read MoreThe Cabinet has extended the emergency decree in force in most parts of Thailand’s Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat provinces for only one month, until October 18. Throughout the almost two…
Read MoreThe much-criticized planned trip to Singapore by Deputy House Speaker Padipat Suntiphada is a working visit and is permissible under parliamentary regulations, said the House speaker on Monday. Padipat, as…
Read MoreSeveral airlines are temporarily requiring their passengers to be weighed before boarding, the data from which is used in the calculation of take-off weight to ensure flight safety, as the…
Read MoreFlash floods and river overflows have inundated 27 villages in eight districts of the northern province of Chiang Mai, following heavy rain during the weekend, according to the provincial Public…
Read MoreThailand’s Department of Skill Development has instructed its provincial offices to include “tom kha gai” on the menu of Thai food in the skill training program for trainees who aspire…
Read MorePrime Minister Srettha Thavisin has been praised after he told a police who parked his police car with engine on to turn it off during his official visit in Chiang…
Read MoreIt’s 3pm and the pick-up truck growls as it negotiates the winding road towards Thailand’s largest National Park, Kaeng Krachan. Samrong Meekaew, an enthusiastic park ranger and guide, runs visitors…
Read MoreWhat do young celebrities like actor Chanon “Nonkul” Santinatornkul, singer Nanthapak “Fame” Kittirattanawiwat and Gen X media personalities Karuna Buakamsri and Thapanee Eadsrichai have in common? And what do opposition…
Read MoreRuling party Pheu Thai has promised to honor its election policy by capping Bangkok city train fares at 20 baht. If Transport Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit gets his way, the fare…
Read MoreJapanese culture has a huge influence on Bangkok. Apart from learning about Thai culture and cuisine, foreigners visiting the country can also explore many other Asian cultures, including Japanese. This…
Read MoreSomeone appears to have pulled the plug on two CCTV servers at the house of Praween Chanklai, aka “Kamnan Nok”, shortly before the shooting on the night of July 6,…
Read MorePrime Minister Srettha Thavisin will spend this weekend in Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai provinces, which are strongholds of the Pheu Thai party. He arrived at Mae Fah Luang airport…
Read MoreThe Royal Irrigation Department (RID) has repeated its strong advice to rice farmers not to plant a crop after the harvest in October and November this year, due to the…
Read MoreThailand’s new prime minister and his Cabinet have officially begun work after delivering their policy statement in Parliament. However, the country will be deprived of an opposition leader for the…
Read MoreGovernment officials will be able to choose when their salaries are paid, once or twice a month, said Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin today (Thursday). After the first cabinet meeting on…
Read MoreThe Cabinet has formally acknowledged the appointment of Nalinee Taveesin as Thai Trade Representative and an advisor to the prime minister. Nalinee was born on February 12, 1960, as Nalinee…
Read MorePraween Chanklai, aka “Kamnan Nok, operates two construction firms, P. Phatanarungrod and P. Raweekanok, which have won contracts in 1,544 construction projects in 11 provinces combined. These contracts have been…
Read MoreAn unprecedented shooting that killed one police officer and left another wounded in Nakhon Pathom province has exposed ugly corruption in Thailand’s police force and public services in general. According…
Read MoreFormer Bangkok MP Sira Jenjaka was sentenced to eight months in prison yesterday (Tuesday) by the Criminal Court, after he was found guilty of defaming Pol Gen Sereepisuth Temeeyaves, a…
Read More“Every second counts” was probably at the forefront of Pol Sub-lt Sakchai Krasaeyan’s mind as he raced against time, despite rain and heavy traffic, to bring a donor heart from…
Read MoreA political network filed a petition with the prime minister on Wednesday, calling for convicted Thaksin Shinawatra to be returned to prison from the hospital where he has been since…
Read MoreA Move Forward MP for Chiang Mai province has proposed a 5-step measure to cope with forest fires and haze pollution in Thailand, especially in northern provinces. Phattarapong Leelaphat, speaking…
Read MoreActing Highway police commander Pol Maj Gen Jaroonkiat Pankeaw has lost two of his officers in less than a week. The first, Pol Maj Sivakorn Saibua, was killed in a…
Read MoreThe Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has launched an investigation into the construction business of Praween Chanklai, aka “Kamnan Nok”, to determine whether it was involved in price collusion when…
Read MoreA temple in Nonthaburi province has agreed to delay its plan to pull down dead Yang trees (Dipterocarpus alatus) in its compound, after 12 Alexandrine parakeets were found nesting there….
Read MoreIn a move, described as a win-win, deputy police commissioner Pol Gen Roy Ingkapairote will be appointed National Security Council (NSC) chief, paving the way for Pol Gen Torsak Sukvimol…
Read More“My family has a habit of storing food in large quantities. How long should vegetables and fruits be stored in a freezer but retain their flavour and safety?” These issues…
Read MoreMae Hong Son Governor Chettha Mosikrat has ordered urgent assistance to be provided for local people affected by heavy flooding following days of heavy rain. The worst hit areas are…
Read MoreThailand’s Energy Policy and Planning Office (EPPO) will shortly propose its power development plan (PDP) to Energy Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga, in the anticipation that electricity consumption in Thailand will be…
Read MoreA man, suspected of fatally shooting a highway police officer and injuring another in Nakhon Pathom on Wednesday night, was shot and killed by police in Kanchanaburi province early this…
Read MoreA forensic team is at the Talad Nam 4 Park in Pattaya today (Friday), to search for clues to the source of a fire on Thursday night which destroyed a…
Read MoreBangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt has ordered officials in Chatuchak district to undertake a thorough check of a warehouse storing electric car batteries, which burned down in a fire late Wednesday…
Read MoreNational Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has found 15 individuals, including former national police chief Somyot Poompanmuang and former deputy attorney-general Nate Naksuk, guilty of involvement in changing the speed of the…
Read MoreA formal complaint has been lodged with National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) by the director of the National Parks Office,accusing 29 state officials at various agencies of involvement in the trafficking…
Read MoreWith Thailand’s new government, led by Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin of Pheu Thai Party, finally in place, there is growing anticipation among Thai business leaders for a swift economic recovery….
Read MoreLocated 60 kilometres north of Bangkok in Pathum Thani province, the Central Storage of National Museums (CSNM) is a haven for archaeologists, researchers, scholars, and art enthusiasts. Spanning 300,000 square…
Read MoreFormer election commissioner Somchai Srisutthiyakorn has offered some advice to Defence Minister Sutin Klungsang regarding military reform, suggesting that he should not follow everything told to him by the military’s…
Read MoreThe Thai Ministry of Energy will liberalise oil imports by allowing private companies to import finished oil products, to provide more options to consumers in the wake of high energy…
Read MoreA lawyer’s hopes of becoming a National Anti-Corruption commissioner were dashed on Monday, when the Senate voted him down. The 110 votes that Sombat Thoratham, an independent legal adviser, received…
Read MoreAbout 45,000 litres of crude oil have leaked into the sea, during a transfer from tanker moored at a Single Buoy Mooring (SBM-2) of PTT subsidiary Thai Oil, off Chonburi…
Read MoreThe Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is joining hands with tech giant Google to turn what would become electronic waste into new learning tools for students at 437 city schools. More…
Read MoreThree Thai human rights activists were acquitted of criminal defamation on Tuesday, but lamented what they called a hollow victory over the country’s restrictive libel laws. The cases were filed…
Read MoreAcute water shortages in Huai Kha Khaeng wildlife sanctuary in Uthai Thani province have led to several elephants venturing out of the sanctuary to forage for water and food on…
Read MoreA 3-year debt moratorium for farmers and a flat rate 20-baht electric train fare in Bangkok and its suburbs are the two most favoured policies of the Pheu Thai party…
Read MoreDespite its historically rich background, Sing Buri – a province in Central Thailand – is far from a typical tourist destination for either foreign and local visitors. Situated adjacent to…
Read MoreOne of the mega projects being inherited by the new government from the Prayut administration is the land bridge, intended to facilitate the movement of cargo containers and oil from…
Read MoreA school bus skidded off a road and plunged into a flooded paddy field in Warin Chamrap district of Ubon Ratchathani province this morning (Friday). Twenty-eight passengers, who are students…
Read MoreThe Intellectual Property Department has clarified that anyone can use the wording “Pang Cha”, either in Thai or English, because it is a common name. The “Pang Cha” logo and…
Read MoreThai society is aging fast. The percentage of the population aged 60 and above was projected to be 20.4 per cent in 2020 and 38.3 per cent in 2050, according…
Read MoreA Thai woman, wanted by police in Samut Prakan province as a suspected member of a Cambodia-based call centre gang, was arrested at the Thai immigration checkpoint in Aranyaprathet district…
Read MoreThe Pheu Thai-led government will consult the Bank of Thailand over the proposed use of the Utility Token Type 1 as a means of payment for the Pheu Thai party’s…
Read MoreFrom this Friday (September 1), beer in glass containers will be banned from Koh Tao as part of attempts to solve the garbage problem on the island. Only canned beer…
Read MoreHeat is thought to have been the cause of the explosion and fire among containers being stored inside Laem Chabang port in Chon Buri province on Tuesday. The container in…
Read MoreAn uproar broke out on social media yesterday (Monday) after a popular Bangkok restaurant posted the image of one of its dishes called “Pang Cha” on Facebook, claiming that the…
Read MoreThe Bangkok North District Court has accepted a lawsuit filed, by LGBTQ celebrity Prairie Praiwan, against controversial socialite Leena Jungjunja over an incident in April this year, when the latter…
Read MoreAbout 1,000 households in three communities in Bangkok have lodged complaints with the Thailand Consumer’s Council, claiming that their livelihoods are being threatened by the construction of three high-rise condominium…
Read MoreAs Chinese communities worldwide observe the Hungry Ghost Festival, Old Phuket Town, which is home to many Chinese descendants, boasts distinctive rituals during this enigmatic Ghost Month. The celebration is…
Read MoreThe Department of Rail Transport believes that, if the Pheu Thai party’s policy to reduce the fare for electric train services in Bangkok and its suburbs to 20 baht, to…
Read MoreFormer prime minister Chuan Leekpai welcomed last weekend’s visit to the southern tourist provinces of Phuket and Phang-nga by the new prime minister, Srettha Thavisin, as an encouraging sign that…
Read MoreA green humphead parrot fish, the largest and very rare species of parrot fish, was recently photographed in the Gulf of Thailand, near Losin Island off Pattani province, according Assistant…
Read MoreFires have broken out in the Kuan Kreng peat swamp forest, in Cha-uat district of Thailand’s southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat. So far, more than 165 hectares of the…
Read MoreThree mass transit mega projects, launched by the Transport Ministry under the Prayut administration, are now encountering problems which will have to be resolved by the new government, according to…
Read MoreDeputy police commissioners, who aspire to promotion to commissioner in the annual reshuffle, will have to be patient, as outgoing PM Prayut Chan-o-cha has decided to let the new PM…
Read MoreLaw-makers commended the Thai Public Broadcasting Service (Thai PBS) on Thursday for its independent news coverage and educational programming, but called on Thailand’s leading public broadcaster to find ways to…
Read MoreBefore formally taking office, Thailand’s next prime minister Srettha Thavisin flew to Phuket province today (Friday), accompanied by Pheu Thai party staff in charge of tourism promotion, to meet with…
Read MoreThaksin Shinawatra, who is receiving medical treatment at the Police General Hospital, can receive visits from blood relatives from August 28, said Bangkok Remand Prison chief Nastee Thongplad on Thursday….
Read MoreA group of people gathered at the Ministry of Justice today (Thursday), demanding an investigation into the conduct of the director-general of Corrections Department for alleged double standards in the…
Read MoreThe 16 rebel Democrat MPs, who voted in support of Srettha Thavisin’s prime ministerial candidacy on Tuesday, insist that they are still with the opposition, unless they are invited to…
Read MoreThe Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB) has warned members of the public not to fall victim to scammers sending short messages (SMS), informing them that they now have access to…
Read MoreEvery coin has two sides, as has the viral online controversy between a luxury Khao Yai hotel employee and her boss, who refused her leave to be with her dying…
Read MoreU.S. President Joe Biden will sign a strategic partnership agreement with Vietnam during a state visit to the Southeast Asian country in mid-September, Politico reported on Friday, citing three people…
Read MoreThe Thai elephant, recently repatriated from Sri Lanka, Sak Surin, was moved to a new home today (Friday), at the Thai Elephant Conservation Centre in Lampang province, after the completion…
Read MoreThe Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has opened a channel through which members of the public can lodge complaints, if they feel that the oversized “Kru Kai Kaew” sculpture, located in…
Read MoreThe Internal Trade Department (ITD) has asked the Thai Rice Packers and Thai Millers associations to postpone their plan to increase the price of packed rice, to ease the burden…
Read MoreThai police seized about 1.4 tonnes of pangolin scales, worth about 50 million baht, from a truck in the north-eastern province of Kalasin on Wednesday, as it was heading for…
Read MoreAn elderly couple and a woman were safely rescued after they became trapped in a burning three-story townhouse in a housing estate in Bangkok’s Lat Phrao district late last night…
Read MoreThe Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has ordered the suspension of work on the construction of a flyover at Bangkok’s Bangkapi intersection, after a fatal accident late last night (Wednesday) in…
Read MoreA para military ranger was killed and four others were injured when an improvised explosive device, hidden in a house, was remotely detonated as they entered. The incident took place…
Read MoreThe Customs Department has recently introduced two new four-legged officials, whose duties include the detection for narcotics and other contraband. Director General Patchara Anuntasilpa said his office now has its…
Read MoreTwo southern insurgents were shot dead by Thai government forces in a clash in Nong Chik district of the southern province of Pattani on Wednesday. A combined army, police and…
Read MoreThe public has been posting condolences left, right and centre after learning that avid art collector and former pop singer/composer turned Bangkok University Rector, Petch Osathanugrah has passed away at…
Read MorePak Chong district chief officer Kanatchon Sricharoen has presided over a religious rite, at a Chinese monastery in the district, to pray for rain to save the district’s dying rice…
Read MoreA baby boy, rescued from a man who kidnapped him from Bang Len Hospital in Nakhon Pathom province, is still under close observation on Tuesday, after doctors diagnosed him with…
Read MoreAmidst the constant hustle and bustle of daily life, there are often hidden treasures that escape our notice. Singburi, a small province with a population of around 200,000, has long…
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