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In a move to block what is seen by critics as an attempt to delay the general elections, a member of the Pheu Thai Party this morning asked the Election Commission (EC) to request the Constitutional Court to rule on the constitutionality of a motion filed by 36 National Legislative Council (NLA) members to overturn
The long weekend saw particularly large numbers of people flocking to Dusit Zoo in the heart of Bangkok to have a last glimpse of one of the city’s most memorable landmarks before its permanent closure at the end of this month. Zoological Park Organisation of Thailand officials said the flow of people into the Dusit
The Meteorological Department today issued a warning to people in the northern and northeastern provinces to brace for heavy rain and accumulated rainfall which may cause flash flood, river or stream overflow and landslides during August 15-16 as a result of a depression. The department said that the depression has formed in the upper part
A suspect was arrested soon after a man staged a bank robbery near the Victory Monument with a fake hand grenade and made off with 55,760 baht on Sunday night, police said. Pol Lt Pichetsak Piyaratsathit, an investigator at Bang Khen police station, said the robbery took place at about 7.40 pm when the suspect,
(REUTERS) – North and South Korea agreed to hold a summit in Pyongyang in September, the latest step forward in cross-border ties this year after more high-level talks today, the South’s Unification Ministry said. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met in April and May at the border truce
Despite earlier warnings, Phetchaburi town has not been affected by water discharged from the Kaeng Krachan dam and the Phetchaburi River has not yet overflowed as feared, Phetchaburi irrigation project director San Joncharoen said in Monday. Mr San said the Kaeng Krachan dam is now holding about 726 million cubic metres of water or 102% of
Thai athletes are among as many as 20 contingents which will participate in the 2018 Asian Games and have begun to occupy the Athlete Village in Kemayoran area, Central Jakarta, before the opening ceremony of the largest multi-sporting event in Asia this week. Antara News said the the 20-state contingents that would inhabit the athlete`s
Remember the little stateless boy born to a family of Myanmar migrant workers in Chiang Mai who won Thai people’s hearts with his superb paper plane skills back in 2009? Mong Thongdee became Thailand’s champion at the age of 12 before going on to capture the third place at a paper plane contest in Chiba
Super Poll Research Office Noppadol Kanikar has expressed doubts over the reliability of an opinion poll conducted by the Office of the Secretary-General of the Senate on the Election Commission Bill regarding the question of provincial election inspectors. The poll shows 90 percent of some 60,000 respondents oppose the bill. Mr Noppadol said the poll
(REUTERS) – Vowing that “no one can obliterate Taiwan’s existence”, President Tsai Ing-wen left on Sunday for the United States and two of its remaining diplomatic allies, amid pressure from China to try to stamp out references to the island internationally. China, which claims self-ruled and democratic Taiwan as its own, has stepped up a
The mother of former Navy SEAL member Lt-Conmander Samarn Kunan, Mrs Samran, was named a national outstanding mother on the National Mother’s Day today. She was bestowed with a framed citation letter from Her Royal Highness Princess Soamswali in a ceremony held at the government complex and convention centre, Chaengwattana in honour of the courage
Many parts of nine provinces are still under water, with more than 61,000 people of over 25,000 households in 35 districts being affected, Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Office director general Chayapol Thitisak said this morning. The nine provinces are Nakhon Phanom, Ubon Ratchathani, Bung Kan, Sakon Nakhon, Kalasin and Yasothon in the Northeast; Phetchaburi in the Central;
This handout photo released by NASA shows the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Parker Solar Probe on board launching from the Mobile Service Tower on August 12, 2018, Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA postponed until August 12, 2018, the launch of the first ever
(Reuters) A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages. The case of school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson was the first lawsuit to go to trial alleging glyphosate causes
The superintendent of Krathum Baen district police, Samut Sakhon province, and four other senior police officers have been ordered transferred out of the province following a raid on a pub in which 123 patrons were tested positive with drug use. Pol Col Krisana Pattanacharoen, deputy spokesman of the Royal Thai Police Office, said Saturday that
The administrative board of the judiciary has agreed to ask the Agricultural Techniqe Department for the use of a 40-rai plot of land of the plants research centre in Chiang Rai for the construction of a new office of the Region 5 Appeals Court and housing units for its officials. Mr Saravuth Benjakul, secretary-general of
