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About 30 small parties today submitted a petition to the Election Commission (EC) against the commission’s endorsement of Mr. Paiboon Nititawan as a new party-list MP of the government’s Palang Pracharat party. Mr. Paiboon was formerly a member the Prachachon Patiroop party. He joined the Palang Pracharat party after Prachachon Patiroop was dissolved. The 30
The Thai Public Broadcasting Service (Thai PBS) and newly-founded think tank Institute of Public Policy and Development (IPPD) signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday for cooperation aimed at fostering data system for public policy through greater public collaboration and participation. The agreement focuses on practical research, big data management and communication on public policy
The Visa on arrival facility for Chinese tourists is likely to be suspended temporarily as Thailand seeks to tighten up controls to fend off the possible spread of novel coronavirus. Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, in his capacity as head of an ad hoc committee tasked with handling the health threat, said today that the
About 30 small parties today submitted a petition to the Election Commission (EC) against the commission’s endorsement of Paiboon Nititawan as a new party-list MP of the government’s Palang Pracharat party. Paiboon was formerly a member the Prachachon Patiroop party. He joined the Palang Pracharat party after Prachachon Patiroop was dissolved. The 30 small parties,
The search for the second giraffe, which escaped from its cage as it was being transported from Suvarnabhumi international airport to a zoo in Thailand’s eastern province of Prachin Buri on Tuesday night, has ended with the animal being found dead in a roadside canal in Chachoengsao province. The animal was found half-submerged in the
Though a drastic drop in Chinese tourists to Thailand as a result of the coronavirus outbreak means a fall in tourism revenue, long-term relationship between Thailand and China is more important, said the vice president of the Thai-Chinese Tourism Alliance Association (TCTA). “We have to admit that there has been a huge impact on Thailand’s
The Los Angeles Lakers, reeling from the death of team icon Kobe Bryant, “want to represent what Kobe was about” as they press ahead with the NBA season, coach Frank Vogel said Wednesday. “We want to represent what Kobe was about more than anything,” Vogel said. “We’ve always wanted to make him proud, and
Auschwitz survivor Dawid Lewin talks about how he survived the German extermination camp working in the gas chambers.
BANGKOK (AP) — British Airways halted all flights to China and American Airlines suspended Los Angeles flights to and from Shanghai and Beijing as efforts to contain a new virus intensifies. The coronavirus has now infected more people in China than were sickened in the country by the SARS outbreak in 2002-2003. The number