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The National Council for Peace and Order has lifted restrictions on political activities but is apparently not in a hurry to allow full-fledged election campaigning. Government spokesman Lt Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd suggested this morning that NCPO will be taking gradual steps in increasing the political space leading up to the election, expected early next year.
A Laotian migrant worker has confessed to a gruesome murder of a 67-year old woman and her 12-year-old grand-daughter in Samut Prakarn after he was arrested while waiting for a ferry in Muk Daharn province to across the Mekong River to Laos, police reported on Monday. The suspect, identified as Pula, 22, who was arrested
A new poll suggests that although most people agree with the National Council for Peace and Order’s decision to ease political restrictions, they believe that the country should move gradually toward election. As many as 84.9 per cent of the respondents who will be first-time voters and 86.6 per cent of experienced voters express support
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Fan Bingbing, an A-list Chinese movie star who has appeared in the “X-Men” and “Iron Man” film franchises, has more than 62 million followers online in China and fronted campaigns for Montblanc watches and De Beers diamonds, has disappeared. The star’s vanishing act – she dropped off the radar in June when
Thirty-seven percent of the respondents to a Matichon online survey to gauge public opinions about the controversial billboards of Thammasat University’s Cheerleader Club support the billboards, said they are great and amount to “thinking out of the box”. 27 percent of the respondents disagreed, saying they are inappropriate while 36 percent said the billboards convey
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s southern regions faced more heavy rainfall on Monday as a devastating typhoon swept west, with key transport services already suspended and millions of residents forced to evacuate, the country’s weather bureau said. Tropical cyclone Mangkhut made landfall in the southeast Chinese province of Guangdong on Sunday after causing devastation in
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohammad, the oldest elected leader in the world, has spilled the beans on his secret to being happily married to his soulmate Tun Dr Siti Hasmah for the past 62 years, according to Bernama. The premier said tolerance, as well as the need to consider the feeling and future of
Curtain was finally down today for the Royal Turf Club of Thailand, commonly known as the Nang Loeng racecourse, after 102 years in service as a venue of horse racing and legal betting since it was opened by then King Vajiravudh on December 18, 1916. To give the racecourse a fond farewell and a final
HONG KONG/MANILA (Reuters) – Typhoon Mangkhut made landfall in China’s Guangdong on Sunday, the country’s most populous province, after barreling past Hong Kong and Macau and killing at least 29 people in the Philippines. Packing gale force winds of more than 200 kph (125 mph), tropical cyclone Mangkhut is considered the strongest to hit the
Mangkhut has weakened since blasting into the Philippine coast on Saturday, but was packing sustained winds of 175 kilometres per hour (110 miles per hour) as it hurtled toward China’s heavily populated southern coast. Rain and strong winds lashed Hong Kong Sunday morning as the storm approached. The city’s observatory warned that Mangkhut would pass
Police are looking for a Laotian migrant worker suspected of killing a 67-year old woman, her 12-year old niece and seriously injuring another 9-year-old niece at a house in Phra Pradaeng district of Samut Prakan. Phra Pradaeng district police said Sunday that the three victims who were living in a house in Soi Pethoeng 23,
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Typhoon Mangkhut swirled towards Hong Kong and the Chinese coast on Sunday, gaining in strength over the South China Sea after hurtling through the Philippines, where it wreaked devastation that killed at least seven. The tropical cyclone is considered the strongest to hit the region this year, packing gale force winds
More than 20 sea turtles landed on two beaches in Phuket and Phang-nga provinces and most of them died with the rest being seriously injured with little chance of survival in the past two months, said Thorn Thamrongnavaswasdi, vice dean of the fisheries faculty of Kasetsart University, on Saturday. The marine scientist said that more
The US government has imposed sanctions on a Thailand-based company it accuses of providing service to an Iranian airline that is suspected of Thai terrorist activities directed by Iranian government, according to the New York Times on Friday. The US Treasury Department said in a statement that My Aviation Company, headquartered in Bangkok provides cargo
Critics of the military government always suspect that it will keep dragging its feet on the election. However, prolonging the ballot exercise is not necessarily a good idea strategically. Here are the reasons, some of them are quite related, why: The traditional anti–incumbent sentiment: This, coupled with the strong speculation that military–backed Gen Prayut
A man watching huge waves crashing into the coast at Taitung county, eastern Taiwan, as Super Typhoon Mangkhut approaches the southern sea of Taiwan.
