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Cold season will come sooner to the northern region which will experience longer period of dry season due to less than normal accumulated rainfall estimated at just 50 percent of the normal level, said Mr Methi Mahayotnant, director of the northern meteorological centre, on Thursday. He disclosed that many areas in Chiang Mai and Lamphun
The Election Commission has announced that there will be 350 members of Parliament representing 350 constituencies in 77 provinces in the next election. According to the EC’s announcement published in the Royal Gazette on Tuesday, Bangkok will have the largest number of 30 MPs, followed by Nakhon Ratchasima’s 14, ten each for Ubon Ratchathani and
The Cabinet on Tuesday approved more than 60 large-scale investment projects in the lower North and upper Northeast designed to facilitate and to connect with the government’s flagship Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) scheme. These projects are grouped into six areas of development including a project to connect Thailand’s economic corridor with Luang Phrabang in Laos,
As a new round of corruption scandals hits the government, Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha today tries to demonstrate his intolerance toward the problem by declaring that state officials found implicated in an alleged embezzlement of salaries for disabled workers will be temporarily relieved, not just transferred. He was responding to a petition submitted with
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has reportedly appealed to members of the public to not feed pigeons in public places following concerns that they could be carriers of diseases beside posing a public nuisance. Informed government sources said many complaints have been lodged with the Government House by people complaining of the presence of huge flocks
Police have filed chargers against the owner of three dogs which were reported to have fatally mauled a 4-year-old girl in a village in Ban Khewa district of the northeastern province of Chaiyaphum. Ban Khewa district police have also talked to villagers who live in the neighbourhood of Village Two in Tambon Ban Khewa and
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea agreed on Wednesday to “permanently” abolish its key missile facilities in the presence of foreign experts, and said it is willing to close its main nuclear complex if the United States takes unspecified “reciprocal action”. Speaking at a joint news conference in Pyongyang, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North
In the strongest sign yet that he is committed to pushing ahead with a general election early next year, Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha said today that election campaigning by political parties will be permitted starting in the middle of December. He said all remaining political restrictions, including full-fledged election campaigning, will be lifted
SEOUL (Reuters) – Leaders of South and North Korea plan to announce steps aimed at rekindling stalled nuclear talks and deepening bilateral ties after they meet for a second day of summit talks on Wednesday in the North’s capital Pyongyang. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in kicked off their
Security has been stepped at Ban Dum (Black House) of the late national artist Thawan Datchanee in Muang district of the northern province of Chiang Rai after more than 100 of his paintings went missing mysteriously from the artist’s residence in Bangkok. Thawan’s 41-year old son, Doitibet, recently lodged a petition with metropolitan police asking
BEIJING (REUTERS) – China will levy tariffs on about US$60 billion worth of US goods in retaliation for new US tariffs, as previously planned, but has reduced the volume of tariffs that it will collect on the products. The tariff rates will be levied at 5 and 10 per cent, instead of the previously proposed
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha appeared to be annoyed today when once again pressed for answer when he will make known his political future. “What do you want from me? I said it would be after the issuance of the act (Act on the Election of Members of the Parliament)…. It can be next year, the
A small group of representatives of two South Korean civic groups rallied in Seoul in front of the SK Engineering & Construction Company, builder of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydro-electric dam in Laos, to demand responsibility from the company’s management for the collapse of a saddle dam on July 23 which left 40 people dead, 66
Kim Jung-sook (C), wife of South Korean President Moon Jae-in, talks with Ri Sol Ju (centre L), wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, during a visit to the Kim Won-gyun Conservatory in Pyongyang on September 18, 2018 on the sidelines of the inter-Korean summit. South Korea’s president and the North’s leader Kim Jong
South Korean President Moon Jae-in (front L) and his wife Kim Jung-sook (front C) wave as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (front 2R) and his wife Ri Sol Ju (front R) look on during an art performance by Samjiyon Orchestra at Pyongyang Grand Theatre in Pyongyang on September 18, 2018, following the first day
A big screen shows a picture of South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (L) during an art performance by Samjiyon Orchestra at Pyongyang Grand Theatre in Pyongyang on September 18, 2018, following the first day of their summit. South Korea’s president and the North’s leader Kim Jong Un drove
