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Eight provinces in the northeast, eastern and southern regions have been warned by the National Water Resources Office to brace for flash food and landslides due to accumulated rainfalls for the past seven days. The eight provinces are Sakhon Nakhon and Muk Daharn in the Northeast, Prachin Buri, Trat and Chanthaburi in the East and
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has decided to allow vendors to sell their merchandises on the footpaths of Khao San road between 4pm-midnight, said Bangkok deputy governor Sakolthee Pattiyakul today. Mr Sakolthee said the decision was made at a meeting between the BMA and representatives of the Sports and Tourism Ministry, Commerce Ministry, Metropolitan Police Bureau
It may have surprised many when M.R. Chatu Mongol Sonakul, a former governor of the Bank of Thailand, was picked as the leader of the Action Coalition for Thailand Party (ACT), a newly–formed political party which has made no secret of its support for Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan–o–cha’s return to power after the next general elections.
Political activist Veera Somkwamkid was today given a 16- month suspended jail term and ordered to do social work for one year after he was found guilty by the Criminal Court of defaming Pol Gen Srivara Rangsibrahmanakul, the national deputy police chief. He was also fined one million baht plus interest thereon for the same
The government plans to set up a “tree bank” which will function like a clearing house to collect and select quality precious tree saplings for sale at affordable prices to individuals who want to grow precious trees which are currently prohibited to be grown on private land, said PM’s Office Minister Kobsak Pootrakool. The “tree
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake rocked Indonesia’s Lombok today, with witnesses reporting collapsed buildings, the latest in a series of tremors on the tropical tourist island that have killed hundreds of people. The latest quake was felt strongly on the island and followed a 6.9 quake on Sunday. Reuters witnesses reporting on the aftermath of last
Two Thai workers, a man and a woman, were injured on Wednesday after Hamas militants in Gaza launched about 150 rockets and mortars on Israeli towns in southern Israel, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Busadee Satipitaks said this morning. Ms Busadee, citing an initial report from the Thai Embassy in Tel Aviv, said the Thai woman was
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today welcomed the Thai Government’s decision to grant Thai citizenship to three stateless Wild Boars boys and their football coach on Wednesday. “By providing these boys and their coach with citizenship, Thailand has given them the chance to both dream of a brighter future and to reach
Water in the Mekong River along the northeastern border province of Nakhon Phanom is receding, enabling water in the tributaries to flow in a larger volume into the the main river, according to provincial governor Somchai Witdamrong. The Mekong water level was measured 11.42 metres on Thursday morning, about 1.60m below the maximum level of
Wirapol Sukphol, better known as Luang Pu Nen Kham Chattiko, former monastic chief of Wat Pa Khantitham monastery in Ubon Ratchathani province, was today sentenced to 114 years in jail for cheating the public, violating the computer act and money-laundering. The Court also ordered the former monk to return 28.6 million baht to 29 individuals
A total of 161 foreign tourists, including Chinese and Russians, and 16 crewmen of a tour boat were on Wednesday night brought back to Phuket by a navy ship, HTMS Narathiwat, after being stranded for two days on Koh Racha Yai island off Phuket. Vice Admiral Somnuek Prempramote, commander of the Third Naval Area, said
China is slapping additional tariffs of 25 percent on $16 billion worth of US imports from fuel and steel products to autos and medical equipment, the Chinese commerce ministry said, as the world’s largest economies escalated their trade dispute. The tariffs will be activated on August 23, the ministry said, the same day that the
