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Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan this morning came to the defence of members of Thailand’s best known all-girls music group BNK48 who were attacked by anti-junta critics for appearing in a government’s public relations TV programme. He offered them his moral support and said their personal rights should be respected. The girls group, particularly
TOKYO (REUTERS) – The death toll from a powerful earthquake in northern Japan last week rose to 44, with 660 injured, the government said today, as electricity supply remained short and top carmaker Toyota suspended work at most of its assembly plants. The pre-dawn, 6.7-magnitude quake last Thursday temporarily paralysed the island of Hokkaido, cutting
Pheu Thai Party’s core member Chaturon Chaisaeng has asked the National Council for Peace and Order for an equal treatment so that all political parties can go out to meet their constituents the way one of the newly-formed parties believed to have ties with the military junta is doing. Chaturon, a former education minister and
The lottery vendor who falsely claimed he had sold a set of 15 lottery tickets allegedly winning the first-prize jackpot of 90 million baht to a customer surrendered to police in Samut Sakhon province today. Pol Col Pongsak Sapla-or, superintendent of Kokekam police station in Samut Sakhon, said police had been contacted earlier by the
Democrat party deputy leader Korn Chatikavanij plans to visit the Government House Monday morning to lodge a complaint with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and the Energy Minister Siri Jirapongphan against PTT Public Company over the oil firm’s takeover of a private power producer. PTT, through its subsidiary, GPSC, bought 69 percent of the shares of
GENEVA — New UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet today called for the setting up of a new “mechanism” to prepare criminal indictments over atrocities committed in Myanmar, amid allegations of genocide against the Rohingya minority. In her first speech as head of the UN rights office, Bachelet called on the UN Human
September 9, 2018 North Korea holds a huge military parade and mass rally in Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung square to mark the seventieth anniversary of its founding on 9 September 1948. The nation refrained from displaying the intercontinental ballistic missiles that have seen it hit with sanctions
The government has reaffirmed its intention to construct waste-to-energy plants in various communities as a solution to better deal with trash disposal problem and generate more power at the same time. The trash-to-energy plant project is included in the government’s 2018-2037 power development plan, which is being drafted and expected be completed by the end
A Thai film retelling the dramatic story of the Tham Luang cave rescue operation will start filming in November, the Bangkok Post reported this morning. Titled “Nang Non” in Thai and “The Cave” in English, the film has been mounted by Tom Waller, a Thai filmmaker of Irish descent, who spoke to the Bangkok
A wild elephant and its baby were found dead near a reservoir in Kaeng Krachan national park in Phetchaburi province. A team of park officials and a veterinarian from the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation led by Mana Permpoon, chief of Kaeng Krachan national park, was rushed to the scene in Ban
The Samut Sakhon provincial court has issued a warrant for the arrest of a lottery vendor in Samut Sakhon who falsely claimed he had sold a set of 15 lottery tickets that won the first-prize of 90 million baht to a customer. The lottery vendor, 35-year-old Thanawat Kamhaengphol, is wanted on charges of public fraud
With no long-range missiles on display, North Korea staged a military parade on Sunday focused on peace and economic development, filled with colored balloons and flowers to mark the 70th anniversary of the country’s founding.
Participants wave flowers as they march past a balcony from where North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un was watching, during a mass rally on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on September 9, 2018. North Korea held a military parade to mark its 70th birthday, but refrained from showing off the intercontinental ballistic missiles that
The Meteorological Department issued a warning today of widespread rain and isolated heavy rain in the lower northern, lower northeastern, central, eastern and upper southern regions on Sunday and Monday. The department said the widespread rain which was caused by the collision of the high pressure from China and the southwestern monsoon trough blanketing the
September 9, 2018 Thousands of North Korean troops parade through Pyongyang as the nuclear-armed country celebrates its 70th birthday, followed by artillery and tanks.
