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Thai nationals applying for short-stay Schengen visas at EU embassies in Thailand will now be eligible for longer-validity multiple-entry visas under the EU’s “Visa Cascade” scheme, according to a statement issued today by Thailand’s Foreign Ministry.
President Donald Trump issued a fresh warning to Iran on Sunday, saying it had to move quickly towards a peace deal or "there won't be anything left of them."
The Constitutional Court has accepted for consideration a petition filed by the parliamentary Opposition bloc challenging the constitutionality of an emergency decree authorising the Finance Ministry to borrow money to address the energy crisis and support the country’s energy transition.
The private sector has proposed that the government treat corruption as a national agenda item and establish a national anti-corruption centre to tackle this deeply entrenched problem in earnest, Poj Aramwattananont, president of the Board of Trade and the Thai Chamber of Commerce said today.
An initial urine test has revealed that driver of the train that slammed into a passenger bus at a crossing in Bangkok on Saturday afternoon was intoxicated and that the train’s emergency braking system was activated only 100 metres before the point of impact, Pichet Kunadhamraks, director general of Rail Transport department said yesterday.
A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern coast of Myanmar at 9.05am today, with tremors felt in many parts of Thailand, including Bangkok, according to the Earthquake Surveillance Division of the Meteorological Department.
The rising cost of living, including the high costs of energy and consumer products, is top of most Thai people’s concern, followed by household and personal debt, according to a Suan Dusit Poll by Suan Dusit University.
The Philippines said it has asked the country's Supreme Court to allow it to arrest ex-president Rodrigo Duterte's chief drug war enforcer to stand trial in an international tribunal.
Makkasan police have charged the train driver with negligence causing death and serious injury following a fatal collision at the Asoke-Din Daeng railway crossing in Bangkok on Saturday.
Eight people were killed and 32 others injured when a freight train slammed into a public bus and multiple other vehicles on a railway crossing in Bangkok on Saturday afternoon, near the Makkasan Airport Rail Link station, sparking a horrific blaze.
The Democrat Party candidate running in the Bangkok gubernatorial election, Anucha Burapachaisri, has announced that he wants to transform Bangkok into a “City of Angels and more” and “a city of the future for new generations of Thai people.”
Peace talks between Thailand and the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) are expected to resume around the end of next month, said the newly-appointed Thai top peace negotiator.
The identities of the eight people killed in the freight train and bus collision in Bangkok have not yet been officially verified, prompting Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt to urge anyone whose family members may have boarded a route 206 bus and have not returned home to contact authorities.
A motorcycle taxi rider who witnessed the fatal train-bus collision in the heart of Bangkok yesterday described the scene as deeply traumatic, saying several accidents had previously occurred at the railway crossing, though never on such a devastating scale.
Minister Attached to the Prime Minister’s Office, Supamas Isarabhakdi, has ordered the Office of the Consumer Protection Board (OCPB) to launch an urgent investigation into substandard solar rooftop installations, following reports of equipment melting, fire hazards and financial damage exceeding 500,000 baht.
