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The temporary suspension of permits for individuals to buy guns, officially known as the Por 3 form, and a requirement for gun owners to renew their ownership licences every five years are among a set of short- and long-term measures issued by the Interior Ministry today at the instruction of Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said today that he had signed an official letter seeking a Royal Command to remove National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) chairman Dr Sarana Boonbaichaiyapruck from office due to his disqualification.
Many students at a well-known high school in Muang district of Chiang Mai were taken by surprise this morning by the presence of a large number of police officers at the school entrance and thorough searches of their school bags and backpacks.
Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Nonthaburi has extended the suspension of on-site classes until August 31, with lessons to be conducted entirely online until then. The school had earlier said that students at all levels would not attend classes on August 10-11 and August 13-14 following the fatal shooting at the school on August 7. The school announced via its Facebook page yesterday, however, that classes would be conducted entirely online on weekdays from August 18-31. Students will also...
The chair of the Thailand-Cambodia Conciliation Commission, set up under the compulsory conciliation mechanism of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), will be selected on Friday.
Colombian volunteers and rescuers sifted through rubble with bare hands and buckets Monday, hunting for survivors following a massive 7.4-magnitude quake that has claimed the lives of at least 111 people.
The Office of National Water Resources has advised riverside communities along the Mekong River, from Loei province to Ubon Ratchathani, to brace for possible flooding caused by river overflows from today until Friday.
No preferential treatment was given to former MP Chalong Riewraeng, who was detained yesterday after allegedly shooting dead a Nonthaburi mayor in connection with an 11-million-baht debt dispute, a senior police commander said today.
Rising water levels in the Mekong River are expected to overflow into low-lying areas in four districts of the northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom between now and Friday.
The Department of Disease Control will fine former Nonthaburi MP Chalong Riewraeng 5,000 baht for smoking in a government office and fine Rattanathibet police station 3,000 baht for allowing the former MP to smoke in a public building without intervention.
The mayor of the Nonthaburi Provincial Administrative Organisation (PAO), Pol Col Thongchai Yenprasert, was shot and critically wounded at the PAO office compound this morning, allegedly by former Nonthaburi MP Chalong Riewraeng over an 11-million-baht debt. His driver was also shot and seriously injured.
A candidate who ranked 132nd on the initial list for the Local Administration Department’s recruitment exam last year has jumped to first place on the revised list.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul will not fly an F-16 fighter jet during his visit to Wing 1 in Nakhon Ratchasima this week due to insufficient time to complete the required safety and medical procedures.
The Thai Navy is not concerned about Cambodia’s two new corvettes from China, but their deployment could increase tensions in regional waters, particularly in the northern Gulf of Thailand, Rear Adm Parach Rattanachaipan, spokesman for the Royal Thai Navy, told a press briefing.
A teenager who was 14 when he opened fire at a luxury shopping complex in downtown Bangkok three years ago, killing three people, may be released next year if he is deemed no longer to pose a risk after receiving psychiatric treatment under a court order.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu restated his rejection of Donald Trump's latest Gaza plan in televised remarks to his right-wing government on Sunday, even as Israel's military has effectively halted attacks in the territory under pressure from the U.S. President.
