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Thai cocoa and chocolate products are expected to benefit from a growing but niche global market, particularly for high-value, environmentally friendly and health-focused products.
An Australian man, arrested by Thai immigration officers at Suvarnabhumi international airport last night for questioning over the disappearance of a 17-year-old Thai girl, has allegedly confessed to her killing and dumping her body in a suitcase at a secluded location in Pattaya.
Four people, including two children, were injured last night by an IED placed outside an Islamic boarding school (Pondok) in Pattani's Thung Yang Daeng district.
The father of People's Party and opposition leader Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut was surprised when he went to cast his ballot in the Bangkok gubernatorial election in Taling Chan district on Sunday morning to find that his name was missing from the voter list.
Rescue crews raced Saturday to find survivors in the rubble of Venezuela's powerful earthquakes as the death toll reached 1,430 and hopes dwindled 72 hours after the earth roared and rumbled.
The Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) is urgently working to restore Chalong Krung Road in Lat Krabang district after heavy rain and strong winds toppled utility poles on Friday evening, damaging vehicles and disrupting power and communication lines.
Former deputy House speaker Suphachai Phosu has become the latest Thai politician to be banned from politics for life, after the Supreme Court found that he breached ethical standards by encroaching on state land.
More than 40 utility poles toppled yesterday over a two-kilometer stretch of Chalong Krung Road in Lat Krabang district of Bangkok, as a result of heavy rain and strong winds which damaged 30 vehicles, battered homes, caused widespread blackouts and left several people injured.
Thailand is experiencing a continuous deterioration in household credit quality amid expanding household debt, which has risen to 86.7 per cent of national gross domestic product.
Mourners from across the country have been arriving at the Grand Palace today, as the Bureau of the Royal Household has opened the Piman Rattaya Throne Hall for the first day of paying of respects to Her Royal Highness Princess Bajrakitiyabha Narendira Debyavati by the public.
The Attorney General has instructed the Department of Special Investigations (DSI) to file charges against six more unnamed individuals for alleged involvement in an online gambling platform linked to Kla Tham MP for Songkhla province, Chonnapat Naksua.
The Phuket permanent secretary is being held at the Phuket provincial police office for intensive questioning by officials from the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and the police’s Counter Corruption Division (CCD) over alleged involvement in the Local Administration Department’s (LAD) recruitment exam scandal.
Security forces closed Highway 410 yesterday, between Yala and Betong district to all in-bound and out-bound traffic, so forensic officers could search for evidence around a ten-wheel cargo truck, which was stopped by a group of armed men in military fatigues and torched.
The Meteorological Department has issued a weather warning of widespread thunderstorms and isolated heavy rainfall in the northeast, the central plains, Greater Bangkok, the east and the southwest coast.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) will ask the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) to form a joint panel of specialists to investigate the Local Administration Department’s (LAD) recruitment exam scandal and the financial transactions related to suspects in the alleged fraud, estimated to involve about 4.5 billion baht in bribes paid by thousands of examinees.
Thailand’s Second Army Region took members of the ASEAN observer team to inspect the Thai-Cambodian border today, in the northeastern province of Si Sa Ket.
