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The Port Authority of Thailand (PAT) has stepped up safety measures ahead of the Songkran festival, launching a dedicated campaign to ensure cargo trucks secure their containers and adhere to strict driving standards to minimise road accidents during the traffic-heavy holiday period.
With the new Cabinet officially assuming its duties, experts have cast doubts on the new administration’s effectiveness in tackling, what they described as, the unfamiliar crises facing the country.
A female driver of a Red Line suburban train has been suspended from duty pending an investigation into a viral video clip, in which multiple screams are heard coming from the driver’s cabin while she was operating the train between Rangsit station and the Krungthep Apiwat Terminal yesterday.
NASA on Tuesday released a historic photograph of Earth dipping below the lunar horizon, more than 57 years after an iconic "Earthrise" image was captured by an Apollo 8 astronaut.
A suspected major drug trafficker, who had evaded arrest for three years in South Korea, has been extradited and taken into Thai police custody to face at least 66 arrest warrants on serious drug and money laundering offences.
A senior naval officer, with the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) in Narathiwat, has been temporarily transferred to headquarters after allegedly providing the vehicle used in the attempted murder of a Prachachat Party MP.
U.S. President Donald Trump pulled back on his threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran late Tuesday, swerving to deescalate the war less than two hours before the deadline he set for Tehran to capitulate or else a “whole civilization will die.”
The US struck military targets on Kharg Island overnight as President Donald Trump said “a whole civilization will die tonight.”
Media tycoon of the Manager Group, Sondhi Limthongkul, was today sentenced to four months in prison without suspension after the Criminal Court found him guilty of defamation.
Overall public spending nationwide during this year’s Songkran festival in mid-April is likely to drop by 3.7%, compared to last year, due mainly to the rising prices of fuel and other consumer products impacted by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
The Energy Policy and Planning Committee agreed today to cut the ex-refinery prices of B7 and B20 biodiesel by two baht per litre, Energy Minister Akanat Promphan told the media after discussions with representatives of six refineries.
A joint task force comprising the DSI and the Departments of Energy Business and Excise, set up to probe alleged oil hoarding at sea off Surat Thani province, has carried out extensive inspections, including checks on a number of vessels and the quantities of oil carried on each voyage, a spokesperson for the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) said today.
The Thai government will introduce new energy-saving measures after the Songkran festival, including closing petrol stations between 10pm and 5am and expanding remote working mandates for civil servants, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said today.
The opposition People’s party is set to grill Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul over his government’s handling of the current oil crisis, public disasters and PM2.5 air pollution during the three-day debate following the prime minister’s delivery of the government’s policy statement on Thursday.
The Energy Policy and Planning Committee has scheduled an urgent meeting this afternoon with representatives of six oil refiners to discuss the current oil crisis, the issue of the Gross Refining Margin (GRM) and the use of the Singapore reference oil price as benchmark for regional prices of refined oil products.
While modern air conditioning offers a temporary escape, the true secret to surviving a Thai summer lies on the plate and on the palate.
