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The government appears to be in the hot seat over Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s alleged failure to recite the full text of the oath of allegiance during the swearing-in ceremony prior to taking office. Opposition Pheu Thai and Future Forward parties have insisted that the reciting of the full text of the oath is mandatory
The first batch of 4,500 bottles of medical cannabis, produced by the Thai government’s Pharmaceutical Organization, will be delivered to hospitals on August 7th, said Dr. Surachoke Tangwiwat, deputy secretary-general of the Food and Drug Administration, on Thursday. He explained that Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul had made it a policy that all state hospitals
The city gubernatorial election was always, in the distant past, romanticized. Chamlong Srimuang with “cheap” campaign posters made of rural household utensils, Bhichit Rattakul with a tree-hugging and overwhelmingly-underdog image and Samak Sundaravej’s “swan song” come to mind. However, national divide played the most decisive part in the last Bangkok poll, which saw much-maligned incumbent
Effective today (August 1st), motorcyclists caught riding on public sidewalks will face a maximum fine of 2,000 baht, up from the old rate of 1,000 baht. Deputy Bangkok Governor Sakonthee Patthiyakul said today that, although the 1,000 baht fine is already regarded as high, there are still many violators and, hence, the need to increase
At around 8.10am on Friday there was an explosion in or near a white car in a parking lot in front of the Mahanakorn Building, near Chong Non Si BTS station. At around 8.30am there was another explosion in a small flower nursery, located under a walkway connecting the BTS station with the Mahanakorn Building.
BANGKOK (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Southeast Asian counterparts at a meeting in Bangkok on Thursday that the United States never asked Indo-Pacific nations to take sides. Regional rivalry between the United States and an increasingly powerful China hangs over this week’s security meetings between foreign ministers from the Association of
The Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) issued a warning this morning about tropical storm, ‘WIPHA’, which developed from the depression over the upper South China Sea last weekend and is expected to generate torrential downpours that may cause flash floods in affected areas of Thailand’s Northeastern and Northern regions. The TMD said that ‘WIPHA’ is currently
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About 200 additional fire-fighters, from the Royal Forest Department and the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, have been sent to fight a fire at the Khuan Khreng peat swamp in Thailand’s southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat. Royal Forest Department director-general Atthapon Charoenchansa told Thai PBS that, although the surface fire is
Parliament President Chuan Leekpai and senior officials of the Office of the House of Representatives yesterday (Wednesday) inspected the new parliament building at Kiakkai intersection. The new building will be opened for the first meeting of the Senate next week. For the past two months, members of the Senate and the Lower House have been
The Department of Rain-making and Agricultural Aviation has stepped up cloud-seeding efforts to ease drought in Thailand’s northeastern region and to replenish the region’s eight major and 11 medium-sized reservoirs, where water levels have dropped drastically. Mr. Surasee Kittimonthon, the department’s director-general, said Wednesday that rain-making units, based in the northeastern provinces of Surin, Ubon
U.S. Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo, arrived in Bangkok last night (Wednesday) to attend the Post Ministerial Conferences (PMCs) and Related Meetings during the 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (52nd AMM), Post Ministerial Conferences (PMCs), and Related Meetings from July 30th – August 3rd, 2019.
Bangkok’s City Hall has decided to open all public parks in Bangkok to visually impaired people with guide dogs and will arrange for shelters for guide dogs at its hospitals. The decision to give greater access to the City Hall’s public services to the visually impaired was made by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) after
Opposition Pheu Thai party has been dealt with yet another blow as its former MP for the northeastern province of Si Sa Ket and former deputy agriculture minister, Mr. Pornsak Charoenprasert, defects to the government’s core Palang Pracharat party. Pornsak, who was reportedly recruited by Mr. Suchart Chomklin, Palang Pracharat’s chief MP, said today (Wednesday)
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi today hailed the early completion of the first reading of the papers relating to the negotiation of a joint code of conduct in the South China Sea between China and ASEAN member countries as “new, major progress”. After Wang met with ASEAN foreign ministers in Bangkok, he told the media
