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The main highway between Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai provinces in the upper North has been reopened to traffic after the five sections damaged by a flash flood were repaired. Pol Col Pongpeera Karaket, chief of Doi Saket police station in Chiang Mai, said the five sections of the highway were cut off by a
The Government Housing Bank has set aside one billion baht as a fund to help its customers who are affected by flooding. GHB managing director Chatchai Sirilai said the bank had meted out six measures to help its flood-affected customers with the one billion baht fund already set aside. The assistance measures range from interest
The Election Commission may fix the maximum election spending for each candidate at two million baht and 20-70 million baht the spending of each party of its party list-MP candidates, said Mr Sawaeng Boonmee, deputy secretary-general of the Election Commission. He explained that limitations of election spending for individual candidates and parties would be used
President Rodrigo Duterte has called out China for shooing away a Philippine military aircraft over the disputed West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), according to the Manila Times Online report on Saturday. Speaking at a convention in Davao City on Friday night, the president said the Philippines was a “friend” who does not deserve “nasty
Newly-appointed Election Commission chairman Itthiporn Boonprakong said on Sunday that election might be held on February 24 the soonest or in May the latest. He said that the EC was prepared to hold the election in accordance with the roadmap, but declined to give an answer when asked about the factor which might cause the
About 300 houses in Mae Chan district of the northern province of Chiang Rai went under water after an old flood wall caved in Saturday night, allowing overflow from the swollen Nam Kham river to rush into several villages of Tambon Mae Kham. Reports said that many households were unable to move their belongings to
Relations between Canada and Saudi Arabia have nosedived as both countries try to assert themselves in a changing international climate. The spat between Saudi Arabia and Canada seemed, at first, an inexplicable rift. Saudi behaviour, in expelling the Canadian ambassador after a Canadian diplomatic Twitter account judiciously criticised the Kingdom’s record on human rights, is
DTAC Trinet (DTN) and Advance Wireless are the only two mobile operators that participated in the auction for the 18000-megahertz spectrum organized on Sunday by the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission. Nine 5-MHz licenses under the 1800-megahertz spectrum are up for grabs. Each bidder can bid for a maximum of four licenses or 20 MHz,
The private sector in 11 southern provinces will propose to the government during the mobile Cabinet meeting in Chumporn on August 20-21 to push for the implementation of the Southern Economic Corridor (SEC) projects with a combined investment projection of 200 billion baht, including 7 projects worth 8 billion baht for Chumporn province alone. Mr
A police officer with a reputation of being a tough lawman against suspected militants was injured when a car in which he was travelling home with his wife and a two-month daughter was ambushed by suspected militants in Sai Buri district of the southernmost province of Pattani on Saturday night. An unknown number of gunmen
GENEVA (Reuters) – Kofi Annan, the former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who died on Saturday, will be remembered as a dedicated humanitarian whose career was tarnished by ugly conflicts that spun out of control. Annan was unable to bring peace to Syria and bring to rest the failures of diplomacy in
A fresh tremor measured at 6.3 magnitude on the Richter scale shook the Indonesian holiday island of Lombok on Sunday morning, the US Geological Survey said on Sunday. USGS estimated the depth of the latest quake at 7.9 km, according to Reuters. Reports of the casualties nor property damages are not yet available. This latest
Over 90 percent of first-time voters and veteran voters said in a poll that they attach top priority to the integrity and ethics of candidates in next elections. According to Suan Dusit Poll, 69.87 percent of first-time voters said they will definitely go to the polls on the election day while 84.7 percent of the
President Joko Widodo of Indonesia officially opened Asia’s biggest sporting event, Asian Games 2018, in Jakarta on Saturday night in a dazzling ceremony highlighted with Indonesian cultural shows and firework. “On behalf of the Indonesian people, we are proud and we are honored to welcome our special guests from 45 countries. With the 18th Asian
Former U.N. Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan died on Saturday at the age of 80, his foundation said, after decades of championing efforts to try to end protracted conflicts in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Annan, a Ghanaian national, died in hospital in Bern, Switzerland, in the early hours, his close
