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The Australian government said it would “carefully consider” the asylum claim of an 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled alleged abuse from her family and is now in the care of the UN in Bangkok, after she fended off deportation in a gripping, live-tweeted ordeal. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun arrived at Suvarnabhumi international airport on a flight
Suspicious packages were sent to more than a dozen foreign embassies and consulates in major Australian cities on Wednesday in a seemingly orchestrated but scattershot campaign. Emergency services raced to a string of diplomatic facilities which had received packages containing suspected hazardous material, all within the space of a few hours. There was no obvious
Kim Jong Un’s train left Beijing on Wednesday after the North Korean leader visited his key ally on a trip seen a strategy session ahead of his expected summit with Donald Trump. Kim arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for his fourth visit to Pyongyang’s sole major diplomatic friend, reportedly visiting a factory and meeting President
The European Union formally announced today the lifting of the “yellow card” imposed on Thailand since 2015 in recognition of the substantive progress made by Thailand in tackling the illegal, unreported and regulated (IUU) fishing . The announcement was made at a joint press conference held at the EU headquarters in Brussels attended by Deputy
Bangkok Christian College which has created a buzz by allowing its students to shed off their uniform and wear casual dresses to classes on Tuesdays has been told to review the initiative by the Office of Private Education Promotion. In a letter sent to the school management today, the OPEP expresses concern it will have
Bangkokians will have to continue to bear with health-threatening air pollution for at least another day tomorrow as air quality at 22 traffic-congested areas in and around the city remains bad with the amount of dust particles in the air exceeding safety levels. For the third day in a row, the Pollution Control Department reported
The Saudi envoy in Bangkok gave an assurance today that the case of a Saudi teenager seeking asylum in a third country from Thailand is a family affairs and will not have any impact on the relations between Saudi Arabia and Thailand. Pol Lt-Gen Surachate Hakparn, commissioner of Immigration Bureau, who is handling the case
Security in the commercial district of Hat Yai, Songkhla, has been stepped up following a car bomb in neighboring district of Thepa which damaged a transformer, causing a blackout in surrounding areas. Foot patrols by defence volunteers and cars equipped with bomb detection devices were seen this morning in the commercial district, checking motorcycles and
Fire trucks and rescue workers from Aranyaprathet border town were rushed into Cambodian town of Poipet on Monday night to help Cambodian officials in fighting fire at an office building and in rescue operations. Earlier report said that the 18-floor building was a hotel-casino, but an official of the Crown resort-casino said that the building
The Public Warehouse Organization (PWO) has submitted to the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) all the contracts related to the hiring of private warehouses and rice surveyors for the storing and quality checks of several million tonnes of rice bought under the controversial rice pledging scheme dating back to 2008. PWO director Mrs Inthara Pokobpunyarak
Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak is confident that Thailand’s economy for the year 2018 would grow between 4-4.2 percent, citing several economic indicators which have shown sign of improvements. In his address at the “Krungthai Next -Thailand Economic Challenges 2019” forum today, he said that the 2018 economic growth rate would depend on the economic
Two Hungarians were killed and a Japanese seriously injured in a road accident involving a passenger van and a big bike on Rajdamri Road in Pathumwan district of Bangkok late Monday night. The van driver, 57-year-old Permsak Yainoi, who escaped injury reportedly told Lumpini police that he was driving his Japanese boss, 36-year-old Tatsiro Takaoka,
An 18-year-old Saudi girl who fled her family and barricaded herself inside a hotel at Suvarnabhumi airport to prevent being expelled by Thai authorities yesterday left the airport after talks with the United Nations refugee agency. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun has been at Bangkok’s international airport since Saturday, when she arrived from Kuwait, saying she feared
A live TV program which saw Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha personally take phone calls from donors raised more than 131 million baht to help victims of tropical storm Pa Buk which wreaked havoc on several southern coastal provinces over the weekend. Gen Prayut was joined on the program by many of his Cabinet members
Thaksin Shinawatra’s camp always springs a surprise when it comes to who it picks as prime minister. Late Samak Sundaravej was a veteran, but everyone had ruled him out when he emerged to rule the country under the People’s Power Party. Somchai Wongsawat was virtually a political minnow when he took the top executive post.
