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Oral traditions play an important role in sharing stories, myths, and legends through the generations. Poetry, especially, has long been a cornerstone of Southeast Asian folklore, serving as a means of preserving cultural traditions and passing them down to future generations.
The Democrat Party’s party-list MP Korn Chatikavanij questioned Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s sincerity in tackling corruption, grey businesses and scam operations today, citing the appointments of Prasert Jantararuangtong and Suriya Juangroongruangkit to the Cabinet.
The Energy Ministry reports that Thailand’s oil reserves are currently sufficient for 110 days.
The Oil Fuel Fund Management Committee has issued a new directive significantly reducing price subsidies on diesel, effective today.
Finance Minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas has rejected calls for an excise tax cut on refined oil products, saying that such a move would affect medical services and warning that the era of cheap oil prices is over, at least for the next two years, due to damage inflicted on oil infrastructure in the Middle East.
Nikorn Soemklang, a second-time Pheu Thai MP for Nakhon Ratchasima, has been thrust into the national spotlight after his unexpected appointment as minister of Social Development and Human Security.
Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) police have apprehended two Myanmar nationals in a sting operation at a shopping mall parking lot in Mae Sot, Tak province.
Naypyidaw, Myanmar -- Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing was sworn in as president on Friday, continuing his rule from a civilian post five years after snatching power in a military coup.
Police have launched a hunt for those responsible for the beheading of an adult dugong, the remains of which were found tied to an undersea rock formation off Yao Noi Island in the southern province of Phang Nga.
Bangkok is in talks with Iran to allow Thai commercial vessels to pass safely through the Strait of Hormuz, Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow said on Wednesday.
ASEAN foreign ministers have postponed their second online meeting to Monday to follow up on discussions on the situation in the Middle East, following the ceasefire between the US and Iran, according to an informed source.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday accused Iran of doing a "very poor job" of allowing oil through the Strait of Hormuz and of breaching the terms of their two-week ceasefire agreement.
The Transactions Committee of the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) has resolved to impound additional suspected ill-gotten assets worth about 8.2 billion baht, linked to a Cambodian-based transnational scam network.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is set to announce his government’s foreign policy focused strongly on multilateralism and global outreach, but substantively the policy appears to be bogged down by domestic security priorities, especially border issues with neighboring countries.
Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva said today that the government’s policy statement was written with a lack of awareness, or with total disregard for public interest and suffering, and that it offers no hope for the people.
Labour Minister Julapun Amornvivat has expressed his deepest condolences to the families of three Thai crew members who lost their lives aboard the vessel Mayuree Naree in an attack in the Strait of Hormuz.
