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Coalition parties have agreed the government’s policy platform, which is expected to be submitted to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Saturday. Palang Pracharat secretary-general Sontirat Sontijirawong said today (Friday), after the meeting of 19 coalition parties, that the coalition party policies have been incorporated in the government’s policy package, with remaining fine-tuning to be done
15 of the 48 amusement parks in Bangkok do not have construction and operating licenses, according to the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA). The BMA and other agencies started field inspections of all permanent amusement parks in 26 of the city’s districts in April. In addition, eight amusement parks do not meet the required standards for
HONG KONG (Reuters) – During Hong Kong’s “Umbrella Movement” of 2014, colorful Post-it notes of support covered a wall near where protesters camped in the streets calling for democracy in the Chinese-controlled city, becoming a symbol of the movement. Today, similar sticky note mosaics have popped up on walls across the territory amid rolling protests
Officials from Thailand’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and police from the Children’s and Women’s Welfare Division raided 14 tourist spots in Bangkok on Friday night and seized large quantities of nitrous oxide, commonly known as ‘laughing gas’. FDA secretary-general Dr. Tharet Kratsanairaviwong said that nitrous oxide can be life-threatening if inhaled for a long
Fossilized bones, unearthed on Phuwiang Mountain in Phuwiang district of Thailand’s northeastern province of Khon Kaen about three decades ago, have recently been identified as belonging to a previously unknown meat-eating dinosaur species. According to Mr. Sommai Taechaval, director-general of the Mineral Resources Department, the dinosaur, which is from the Cretaceous period about 80 million
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In a precedent-setting decision, the general assembly of Supreme Court judges has ruled, by a majority vote, that the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) is not immune from litigation and can be sued. The judges’ general assembly decided by 142 votes to 28 that the NACC is an organization set up under normal circumstances and, hence,
The Bank of Thailand is concerned about the rapid appreciation of the baht currency and has taken measures to curb speculative hot-money inflows, Assistant Governor Vachira Arromdee said today (Friday). Effective July 22nd, limits on the outstanding balance of non-resident baht accounts (NRBA) and the non-resident baht accounts for securities (NRBS), which are opened with
A Royal Thai Air Force trainer aircraft crashed in Sarapee district of the northern province of Chiang Mai while on a training flight today, killing the pilot and injuring a second officer on board. The identities of the two airmen were not immediately released. RTAF spokesman, Air Marshal Pongsak Semachai, said that the L39 trainer
Two non-commissioned army officers, based in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Mai, have separately defended the killing of a leopard cat and a Chinese rat snake, both protected species. The two officers Sgt. Charoensak Pongsrisuk, based at an army camp in Mae Rim district, and an unidentified sergeant major, based at another army camp in
The Pheu Thai party today (Friday) elected Mr. Sompong Amornvivat as its new leader, replacing Pol Lt-Gen Wirote Pao-in who had resigned along with the executive committee. A party member since the founding of Thai Rak Thai, which was dissolved by the Constitutional Court several years ago, Mr. Sompong was an uncontested nomination for the
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha may have taken one step closer to the brink with the Cabinet he has set up. But it’s not quite about the “faces”, which are a mixture of quality and questionable figures. How he formed it matters more, when his pledge to “reform” Thai politics is concerned. The way he shaped
Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health insists that there is a very slim chance that a person could contact Dientamoeba Fragilis, a dangerous parasite, after eating a plate of Pad Thai, a popular dish of fried noodles, as claimed by an Australian couple. Stacey Barnes and Ryan Prigg from Perth, along with their two children, visited
The Foundation for Consumers has cautioned the public about drinking bubble milk tea because some brands have an excessive sugar content and there is a preservative in the tapioca pearls, one of the ingredients of the popular beverage. The foundation’s secretary-general, Ms. Saree Ongsomwang, said Thursday that the foundation sampled 25 brands of bubble milk
The Bureau of Epidemiology (BOE), at Thailand’s Department of Disease Control (DDC), reports that, as of July 9th 2019, there have been 44,671 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever reported in the country, which is the highest number in five years, indicating that there have been 67.62 dengue patients in every 100,000 of the Thai population,
