Stay informed with the latest updates, breaking headlines, and current events from around the world.
After completion of a 2-day visit to Thailand’s Deep South region, the Malaysian facilitator for peace talks between the Thai government and Mara Patani, Tan Sri Abdul Rahim bin Mohammad Noor, 75, gave his first interview to Thai PBS saying he will propose a new round of talks to take place in the next two
Underground “monkey cheeks”, or flood water retention basins, could help ease flood problems in Bangkok and this innovation can be implemented immediately, according to Professor Suchatvee Suwansawat, president of the Council of Engineers, on Thursday. He said that retention of excess water underground was introduced in Tokyo which, like Bangkok, does not have room to
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Cracks appeared to emerge on Friday in the support base for a proposed Hong Kong law that would allow extraditions to China as opponents of the bill vowed further demonstrations after hundreds of thousands took to the streets this week. The extradition bill, which will cover Hong Kong residents and foreign
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Lawyers for Indonesia’s political opposition called on Friday for President Joko Widodo’s election victory to be annulled, telling the Constitutional Court it had been achieved through “systematic electoral fraud and abuse of power”. Official results released by the General Election Commission last month showed Widodo had beaten Prabowo Subianto, a retired general,
Facebook has curbed access to a controversial feature allowing searches of the vast content within the social network — a tool which raised privacy concerns but was also used for research and investigative journalism. The leading social network acknowledged this week it had “paused” some elements of its “graph search,” a feature introduced in 2013
More than 400,000 items of fake Botox, stem cells and breast enhancement injectables, worth an estimated 80 million baht, were seized by Department of Special Investigation police and officials from the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Intellectual Property from 12 locations in Bangkok on Wednesday. DSI chief Pol Col Paisit Wongmuang said
The Democrat party is split over the sharing of eight cabinet posts allocated to them by the Palang Pracharat party. The party’s executive committee is scheduled to meet at 2pm this afternoon to discuss who, among the party members, are qualified for the eight posts. Party MPs will join the meeting at 3pm. The positions
The Palang Pracharat party will invite Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to join the party, initially, as a party member and, eventually, to lead the party – replacing Mr. Uttama Savanayana. According to a party source, Mr. Uttama has been assigned by the party to extend the invitation by presenting a membership application form to be
Hong Kong protest leaders announced plans for another mass rally on Sunday, escalating their campaign against a China extradition bill a day after police cleared them from the streets using volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets. The move sets up a fresh confrontation with the city’s government which has refused to withdraw the proposed
The Anti-Corruption Organization of Thailand (ACT) has called on the incoming government to get tough on corruption and to make sure that members of the coalition parties do not get involved in corrupt practices. ACT chairman Mr. Wichien Pongsathorn told a news conference today (Thursday) that the arrival of a new government should be an
Dozens of the newly-elected MPs must be keeping their fingers crossed, with many fearing that their political future could be hanging in the balance. And it is the result of something harmless and perfectly legal that they did probably years back – and which they might have already forgotten about — that is coming back
Thai police seized a massive 596kg haul of crystal methamphetamine, or Ice, from a lorry and pickup truck in Manorom district of the central province of Chainat on Wednesday. The seizure followed the arrest, in Chainat, of Mr. Sue sae Kue, a hill tribe man who lives in the Pob Phra district of the northwestern
Thailand’s Department of Mental Health expressed concern on Wednesday (June 12) that the number of Thai teenagers and young adults suffering from major depressive disorder (MDD) is on the increase, citing the fact that youths aged from 11-25 years old accounted for 13,658 out of a total 40,635 cases calling its mental health hotline in
The new cabinet is expected to start functioning after the 34th ASEAN Summit, scheduled to take place in Bangkok from June 21st to 23rd, Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said today (Thursday). The cabinet list has not yet been sent to the palace for endorsement by His Majesty the King, he said, adding that, if
The Palang Pracharat party has appointed a party member to gather evidence from the party’s 27 MPs for use in their defence in the Constitutional Court against the accusations, from the Future Forward party, that they held shares in media firms at the time they registered their election candidacy. The party’s move to help defend
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has instructed police to investigate as to whether there were any people, including government officials, responsible for bringing a group of Rohingya by boat to Rawi Island in the territory of Tarutao national park in Thailand’s southern province of Satun. Government deputy spokesman Lt-Gen Werachon Sukondhapatipak said today that the Prime
