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The Kresek mosque in Pattani, where 32 suspected Muslim insurgents were killed in a stand-off 14 years ago, continues to receive visitors from Malaysia, the News Straits Times of Malaysia reported. The mosque’s imam, Zakaria Mat Sin, said Malaysians, especially those from East Coast states like Kelantan and Terengganu, travelled all the way to the
With the election approaching, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Friday pleaded with all parties concerned to refrain from provoking unrest, causing public confusion or sowing seeds of conflict. In his weekly nation-wide address, the prime minister said that most people do not have immunity and could be easily misled and it is the country that
Court trial of criminal offences and verdict reading in the future can be done even without the presence of the defendants under amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code overwhelmingly endorsed by the National Legislative Assembly on Friday. The NLA unanimously voted in favour of the amendments which will empower the court to conduct hearings as
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Reuters) – Thousands of Google employees around the world briefly walked off their jobs on Thursday to protest the company’s response to sexual harassment and demand that the world’s largest search engine address rising concerns about workplace inequality. The protests took place in waves, beginning in Asia and then streaming across Europe
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian authorities said they would immediately begin examining a damaged black box retrieved on Thursday from the sunken wreckage of a Lion Air jet that crashed off Jakarta this week, killing all 189 people on board. Indonesia’s second-deadliest air disaster since 1997 has prompted renewed concern about its patchy safety record, and
Fifteen wildlife conservation organizations will march to the Government House next Monday to petition Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to put on hold the Kaeng Krachan national park’s plan to asphalt the road to Khao Panern Thung, a popular mountain-top tourist attraction in the southern province of Phetchaburi. Earlier, 15 environment groups sent a letter to
GAT/PAT (General Aptitude Test and Professional and Academic Aptitude Test) tests for pre-university students will be held one week earlier to avoid clashing with the election day which is expected to be on February 24. Education Minister Thirakiart Charoensetthasilp said the meeting of the university rectors today resolved to move forward the GAT/PAT tests to
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has voiced support for the idea of having pet dogs and cats registered and attached with micro chips but wants the registration fee to be cheap. In his address to some 500 start-up entrepreneurs at the Government House this morning, the prime minister insisted that his government was not financially broke
The first frost of this year was reported this morning at 6 am on top of Doi Inthanon – Thailand’s highest and one of the most famous peaks in Chiang Mai province – when temperature was measured at 1 degree Celsius. It was reported that grass on the mountain top turned white from frost due
His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn has bestowed an octagonal funerary urn for former King Power boss Vichai Srivaddhaprabha and royal bathing water to be used in the royally-sponsored funeral ceremony to be held at Wat Debsirindrawas Ratchaworawiharn on Saturday. The funerary urn and ceremonial umbrellas have been placed in the pavilion where the urn is
Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, the youngest son of Leicester City’s late owner Vichai, on Wednesday offered thanks to a flood of condolences over his father’s death in a helicopter crash last Saturday and vowed to carry on with “his big vision and dreams”. “I’m extremely proud to have such an extraordinary father,” said Aiyawatt, better known by
KEVADIA, India (Reuters) – India on Wednesday inaugurated the world’s tallest statue, a $400-million effigy of independence hero Vallabhbhai Patel that towers nearly twice the height of New York’s Statue of Liberty. The 182-metre (597-ft) steel and bronze “Statue of Unity”, in the prime minister’s western home state of Gujarat, is part of his Hindu
Starting today, tourists will not be able to travel to Khoa Panern Thung, a popular mountain-top tourist attraction to watch a “sea of mist” blanketing surrounding mountains, for more than a year as a section of the only dirt road leading to the mountain top in Phetchaburi province is closed for major repairs. The Kaeng
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s transport minister removed on Wednesday the technical director of the Lion Air airline and several of its technicians after the crash of one of its jets with 189 people on board, the Antara news agency reported on Wednesday. “Today we dismiss (the director) from his position and his duty,” Budi Karya
Raging wildfires have killed seven people including a baby and a pregnant woman in a farming settlement along South Africa’s famed Garden Route, disaster management services said Monday. Firefighters have been battling to quell the blazes that started last week along the southern tourist trail. “So far we have confirmed that there are seven fatalities
Don Pramudwinai’s post as the foreign minister is intact after the Constitutional Court on Wednesday found him not guilty of violating a provision of the charter regarding his wife’s shareholding in excess of five percent in a private company as alleged by a member of the Pheu Thai party. The court ruled with a majority
