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The Department of Disease Control (DDC) has upgraded its surveillance measures for travellers arriving from high-risk countries, specifically central African countries like Congo and Uganda which are currently battling a growing outbreak of the often fatal haemorrhagic disease. No cases have been detected in Thailand so far.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul signed an order today for the formation of an anti-corruption board, led by himself, as a part of the process for Thailand’s accession to membership of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2028.
While Thailand has signaled its intention to scrap the memorandum of understanding (MOU) on maritime claims with Cambodia, the administration under Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul appears far less prepared to manage the impending legal, diplomatic and political fallout.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has found convicted former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom to be “unusually wealthy” after he amassed 107 million baht in illicit assets.
Khao Kheow Open Zoo announced today Thailand’s first successful artificial hatching of a greater adjutant chick, an endangered member of the stork family that has not been seen in the wild in the country for more than 40 years.
Makkasan police today asked the Criminal Court to remand the train driver and a railway crossing guard on charges of causing death and serious injury through negligence after a train crashed into a passenger bus on Saturday, killing eight people and injuring many others.
The driver of the train that crashed into a bus, killing eight people in Bangkok over the weekend, has told police he regularly uses methamphetamine pills and cannabis.
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.
