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Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit has returned from his European trip not buoyant. One reason is he is a man facing potentially big legal trouble, but another reason is that western countries have been too nice to the Prayut government for comfort. Underlining the Future Forward Party leader’s feeling toward the developments taking place while he was away
Thailand’s Department of National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation is considering invoking the forest encroachment provisions of the National Park act to demolish a forest resort, which was used as the venue for a Palang Pracharat party seminar at the weekend. The choice of ‘88 Garmonte’ resort, located in Wang Nam Khieo district of the
Sakoltee Phattiyakul, Bangkok’s deputy governor, yesterday (Tuesday) received approval from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) to raise the fine imposed on motorcyclists caught driving on the city’s sidewalks from Bt1,000 to Bt2,000, effective Thursday, August 1st. Mr. Sakoltee was said to be ‘not happy’ that a number of motorcyclists are still using footpaths and pavements
Bangkok and its suburbs were battered by a heavy, but seasonal thunderstorm on Tuesday afternoon. The rains brought with them the usual traffic chaos during the rush evening hour. Those trying to avoid the jams by using the BTS were greeted with a request, from the station announcer, that open umbrellas should not be taken
Thousands are languishing in displacement camps in Laos a year after a dam break unleashed floodwaters and killed dozens of people in the impoverished state, a new report on the anniversary of the disaster said Tuesday. For the past decade, Laos has been on a dam-building spree to serve as the “battery of Asia”, but
BEIJING (Reuters) – China accused U.S. officials on Tuesday of being behind violent protests in Hong Kong and advised them to remove their “black hands” from the territory. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the comment at a news briefing in Beijing, when asked about the Hong Kong protests. Escalating violence in the city over
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s incoming prime minister once boasted he could recite from heart the first hundred lines of Homer’s Iliad in ancient Greek. Boris Johnson has long spun political gold from his magniloquent tongue, using what some linguists and observers say bombastic language, esoteric vocabulary, occasional crudity and episodes of bumbling bluster. He confects
Members of parliament have been warned by the parliament’s president to be disciplined and to refrain from unruly behavior during the two-day debate on the government policy statement, which begins on Thursday, saying that they will be watched and judged by the people. Parliament president and House Speaker Chuan Leekpai held a meeting today with
Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission has faulted former deputy prime minister Suthep Thaugsuban, former acting national police chief Pol Gen Pateep Tanprasert and several others for alleged collusion concerning the construction of 396 police stations nationwide, a project worth an estimated 5.8 billion baht. The police station project dates back to 2011, during the Democrat-led government
Representatives of the Lao government and the builder of the Xayaburi dam have dismissed allegations that water retention at the dam, for the trial run of electricity generators, is one of the reasons for the sharp lowering of the water level in the downstream stretches of the Mekong River. The denial was made in the
Two Thai workers were killed in South Korea when their passenger carrying 16 people of various nationalities skidded off a mountain road en route to a farm, the Korean Times reported on Monday. Initial reports indicate that the two Thais, whose identities have not yet been released, the van driver and another passenger of unknown
The Future Forward party has vowed to press ahead with its plan to collect more than 100 signatures of fellow MPs to support its motion to amend the Constitution, with the aim of scrapping all the NCPO’s orders and doing away with the junta-appointed Senate. Party secretary-general Piyabutr Saengkanokkul said yesterday that the Future Forward
An assault on pro-democracy protesters by suspected triad gangsters that left dozens wounded sparked a firestorm of outrage in Hong Kong on Monday, in a dramatic escalation of political turmoil plaguing the Chinese city. Gangs of men — most wearing white T-shirts and carrying bats, sticks and metal poles — set upon anti-government demonstrators late
The Pattani United Liberation Organization (PULO) has condemned the Thai military over an incident involving a previously healthy Muslim man who was taken to a military camp in the country’s southern province of Pattani for interrogation on Sunday, only to end up in the provincial hospital’s intensive care unit with brain swelling. In a statement,
Pol. Col. Kritsana Pattanacharoen, deputy police spokesman, said that Spanish tourist Mr. Luis Cabello Ortega, 57, who got lost in the forest of Na Muang Mountain on Samui Island, has been found, safe and sound by villagers and has been returned to his hotel in Tambon Bor Pud. Pol Col Kritsana reported that the Spaniard
China increased the rate of the release of water, through its dams into the Mekong River, to 1,449 cubic metres/second from 1,250 cubic metres/second at the weekend to ease the hardship of people living downstream in Thailand and Laos. According to Thailand’s regional harbor office, in the northern province of Chiang Rai, the additional water
