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Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha this morning presided over a religious ceremony of five religions — Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Sikhism — to mark His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun’s 66th birthday which falls on July 28. The ceremony was held at the Santi Maitree Building and was attended by about 350 people, including Cabinet
Princess Soamsawali and her daughter HRH Princess Bajarakitiyabha have instructed the Friend in Need (of PA) Volunteers Foundation of the Thai Red Cross to donate 2 million baht and 1,000 survival kits to Lao people affected by flooding caused by the collapse of Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy dam in Attapeu province of Laos. A ceremony to
The Royal Thai Air Force yesterday flew relief supplies donated by His Majesty the King and the Thai government to Laos to help victims of floods resulting from the dam collapse in Attapeu province. HM the King donated 10,000 bottles of drinking water, 2,000 towels, 49 water filters, medicines and other necessities whereas the government
The collapse of the Xe-Pian Xe Namnoy saddle dam in Laos should serve as a valuable lesson so that disaster like this will not be repeated but for now the priority is to save lives and to prevent another water mass of about 200 million cubic metres from flowing downstream, said Seub Nakhasathian Foundation chairman
The Legal Execution Department and the Student Loan Fund have stepped in to help a school teacher whose assets are at risk of being confiscated after ุ60 of her students defaulted on their student loans for which she served as guarantor. The Fund manager, Mr Chainarong Katchapanant, told a press conference that the Fund had
As international community pledges donations and relief items, Laotian authorities continue to search for hundreds of people still missing in devastating floods triggered by the collapse of a hydropower dam in Attapeu province in southeastern Laos. Vientiane Times quoted the governor of Sanamxay district as saying this morning that more than 3,000 people were waiting to
The three armed forces have been put on standby to send men and relief supplies to Laos to help in the search of missing people and to ease the sufferings of victims of floods following the collapse of Xe-Pian Xe Samnoy hydroelectric dam in Attapeu province. A war-room has been set up to closely monitor
The Supreme Patriarch has ordered all temples in the Northeast to gather food and other necessities to be delivered to Buddhism offices in their respective provinces so they can be sent to Laos to help the flood victims. The Supreme Patriarch also instructed monks across the country to pray for the victims and for the
The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission has decided to impose a cap on the number of SIM cards that each individual subscriber can buy. NBTC secretary-general Takorn Tanthasit said that under the new measure endorsed by the regulator, each individual subscriber can buy a maximum of five SIM cards from each of the mobile phone
Eleven Moo Pa Academy football players and their coach Ekapol Chanthawong were ordained on Wednesday at Wat Phra That Doi Tung in Chiang Rai in a ceremony attended by a large crowd and covered live by many TV channels. The 11 young footballers were ordained as novices while their coach Ekapol as a monk. The
Trying to describe someone like Dr. Surin Pitsuwan has never been easy. You can call him a great diplomat, an ASEAN spokesman, a visionary or a great orator, and yet you know you still don’t give a full picture of this towering figure. Surin, a former foreign minister and ASEAN secretary general, passed away in
Government officials this morning took part in a ceremony to pledge allegiance to His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun to mark his 66th birthday on July 28. The ceremony held at the Government House was chaired by Gen Wilas Arunsri, the prime minister’s secretary-general, and attended by officials of the office of the Secretariat of
The South Korean government said today it will soon send a disaster relief team to the area of Laos affected by the massive flooding that has claimed scores of lives, Yonhap news agency reported. The government decided to dispatch the Korea Disaster Relief Team (KDRT), composed of rescue workers and medical staff, as early as
A forward team of about 30 rescuers and life-saving experts of a private relief organization known as “Hook 31 Foundation” in Nakhon Ratchasima or Korat is waiting to cross the border into Laos to help victims of flooding that resulted from the collapse of a hydropower dam in southeastern Attapeu province’s Sanamxay district. They were
The Philippines has become the world’s second most dangerous place for environmental activists after Brazil, with 48 green advocates killed last year, The Manila Times Online reported. According to watchdog Global Witness, Brazil was the most dangerous country, accounting for 57 of more than 200 environmental activists worldwide who were killed last year as government-sponsored
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May hosted a reception on Tuesday for the British divers who were involved in the dramatic rescue of the 12 Wild Boars soccer team members and their coach from Tham Luang cave earlier this month. All the boys and their 25-year-old soccer coach were brought to safety over the course of
