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The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has imposed heavy fines on the top executive and a former executive of Inter Fareast Energy Corporation (IFEC) for insider trading. SEC said it had received complaints from several shareholders of the company to probe the conduct of Mr Supanan Rithpairote, chief executive officer and director of IFEC and Mr
Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA) will provide free bus service starting September 1 for city commuters to encourage them to avoid travelling through areas where construction of three mass transit lines is underway. Construction of the Yellow, Pink and Orange train lines is now underway, causing heavy traffic jam in the areas of construction as
Thanathorn Jungroongreangkit, acting leader of the Future Forward Party, and two other party executives were granted permission to postpone reporting to the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) police to hear charges on violation of the Computer Act to Sept 17. They were accused of violating the Computer Act by linking the National Council for Peace
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will invoke his executive power under Article of the interim Constitution to ease political restrictions in order to allow political parties to partially carry out political activities, Deputy Prime Minister Wassanu Krea-ngam said Thursday. Political activities that will be permitted include holding of general meetings of political parties to recruit new
An army of about 500 Chinese investors will meet their Thai counterparts and officials at the 6th Thailand-China Joint Committee on Trade, Investment and Economic Cooperation and the Thailand-China Business Forum 2018 during August 24-25. Led by State Councillor Wang Yong, the Chinese businessmen will be take on an inspection tour of the Eastern Economic
Vendors on Khao Sarn road, one of Bangkok’s best known landmarks among backpackers, will be allowed to do their business from 4 pm until midnight instead of 6 pm until midnight as earlier mandated by the City Administration. Phra Nakhon district chief Mr Pongsathorn Siritham said that the new 4 pm-midnight operating hours for the
CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison will become Australia’s new prime minister after winning a Liberal party leadership vote today, ending an internecine battle that has scarred the conservative government ahead of an election due by May 2019. Morrison, who will be Australia’s sixth prime minister in less than 10 years, emerged victorious from
The Customs Department will set up an intelligence gathering centre to keep track on people posing as passengers but in fact are couriers smuggling in brand-name products from overseas. These people often have customers who give them advance orders. Speaking at a customs seminar on Thursday, Customs Department director-general Kulis Sombatsiri said the department
The out-bound lanes of the Vibhavadi Rangsit Highway will be closed at kilometre marker 24+279 from 10 pm on Aug 25 to 4 am on Aug 26 for the installation of five steel girders on the bridge under construction across the highway into the Don Mueang international airport, the Highways Department announced. The department aplogises
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and China today escalated their acrimonious trade war, implementing punitive 25 percent tariffs on $16 billion worth of each other’s goods, even as mid-level officials from both sides resumed talks in Washington. The world’s two largest economies have now slapped tit-for-tat tariffs on a combined $100 billion of products
The Metropolitan Police has imposed longer periods of the ban on all kinds of trucks on five roads during the morning and everning rush hours to ease traffic congestion caused by the construction of many electric train rail tracks, Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner Pol Maj Gen Jirapat Phumichit said today. The five roads are Chaeng
Future Forward Party’s acting leader Thanathorn Jungroongreangkit and two other party executives have been summoned to report to the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) to be charged with violating the Computer Act on Aug 24 for their comments alleging the military junta’s role in poaching of former MPs. The other two FFP acting executives summoned
Young Thai puppet art performers of Nataya Bangkok Club have won two prestigious awards – Best Traditional Show Award and Audience Award – in the 8th World Puppet Carnival in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Nataya Bangkok Club represented Thailand at the carnival which was held between Aug 13-18. Den Mahalert, chairman of Nataya Bangkok Club, said the
South Korean Kim Byung-Oh (L), 88, cries with his North Korean sister Kim Sun Ok, 81, as they bid farewell at the last meeting of a three-day family reunion event at North Korea’s Mount Kumgang resort on August 22, 2018. Elderly North and South Korean family members allowed to meet for the first time in
South Korean Lee Geum-Sum, 92, waves to her North Korean son Lee Sung-Chul, 71, as she is leaving on a bus after a three-day family reunion meeting at the Mount Kumgang resort on Mount Kumgang, North Korea on August 22. Almost a hundred South Koreans crossed the heavily armed border to meet their separated families
The 12 Wild Boars soccer players and their coach who captured the world’s attention last month while stranded in the Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai said they wanted to thank for the world for the outpouring of love and support that went into rescuing them from a harrowing subterranean ordeal. “We learned about love
