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The Cabinet on Tuesday approved the draft agreement on the repatriation of Myanmar refugees as proposed by the Foreign Ministry, government spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd said. The draft agreement was made at a meeting, hosted by the Foreign Ministry, of representatives of the Thailand and Myanmar on March 28. According to the draft agreement, Thailand Myanmar
Journalists, both Thai and international, have started arriving at the office of Chiang Rai provincial administration for the first press conference with the 12 Wild Boars soccer team and their coach. The tightly-controlled press conference is scheduled to start at 6 pm and broadcast live via the daily “Thailand Moving Forward” programme which is normally
Twenty-five French tourists and one Thai guide were injured with 4-5 of them in serious condition after a tour bus in which they were travelling overturned on a secondary road in Mae Lao district of Chiang Rai province on Tuesday. Rescue workers said that most of the tourists sustained bruises and were discharged after given
The Navy SEALs are known as the toughest warriors of the Thai fighting forces. But even their most grueling training apparently didn’t prepare them for what they had to encounter at Tham Luang cave when they were called upon to save the lives of 12 young footballers and their coach trapped inside. SEAL Commander
Teachers who have threatened to stop servicing their debts to the Government Savings Bank were warned that they could face serious consequences, including the prospect of being declared bankrupt by the court. Deputy justice permanent secretary Thawatchai Thaikhieu on Tuesday posted his opinion on his Facebook page in response to an online video clip featuring
The parents of a young engineer shot dead by police in Sakhon Nakhon seven years ago on the pretext that he was involved in drug dealing were finally vindicated when the Supreme Court declared their son innocent and upheld the lower court’s seven and a half years’ imprisonment imposed on the police shooter for overacting
Police and officials from the national parks, fisheries and marine resources departments seized a substantial haul of decorative corals and coralline algae in raids of several shops in Chatuchak area on Tuesday. Mr Nuwat Leelatapa, a member of the Yiew Dong task force of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, said
The 12 Moo Pa Academy football players and their coach will be released from hospital tomorrow — a day earlier than planned, Chiang Rai Governor Prajon Pratsakul confirmed today. Mr Prajon said the young survivors of Tham Luang cave saga will also speak to the media for the first time tomorrow at a press conference
Abundance of rain is forecast for the upper part of the country this week, with isolated heavy rain predicted for the North, the Northeast, the Central, the East and west coast of the South, according to this morning’s weather forecast from the Meteorological Department. It is a result of a monsoon trough lying across Myanmar,
About 450,000 teachers who are members of the funeral welfare fund for teachers have vowed to stop reimbursing the Government Savings Bank for debts they owe to the bank starting August 1. In the meantime, the teachers’ organization has demanded the government and the GSB to impose a moratorium on six-month debt moratorium starting October
The legal criteria for granting Thai nationality to stateless people must be strictly adhered to in the case of three members of the Moo Pa Academy football team and their coach, Interior Minister Anupong Paojinda said this morning. The three young football players and their coach, Ekapol Chanthawong, are classified as stateless persons was they
One of the two Australians who were with the Wild Boars football team and helped them escape safely from the Tham Luong cave in Chiang Rai has revealed the boys and their coach were heavily sedated during the extraction operation, according to ABC. Retired Perth vet Craig Challen explained how he worked closely with his
There was an emotional scene when Lt Col Dr Pak Loharnchun, a military doctor better known as “Mor Pak”, visited the 12 young footballers and their coach in a happy reunion at Chiang Rai Prachanukroh Hospital. Pak and four members of the SEAL unit stayed with the young survivors from the day they were found
Tham Luang Nang-Khun Nam Nang Non forest park has been closed indefinitely due to extensive damages caused to the park’s environment during the recent dramatic rescue operations. Forestry officials said the forest requires massive rehabilitation and restoration. Mr Tunya Nititham, director-general of the National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, said today the Tham Luang cave
A Muslim militant has been sentenced to death for his parts in three violent incidents in Pattani province in which seven people were killed and eight others injured, said Col Thanawee Suwannarat, deputy spokesman of the Region 4 Internal Security Operations Command forward headquarters at Sirindhorn Military camp in Pattani’s Yarang district. Speaking at a
British caver Vernon Unsworth who helped rescue the Wild Boars soccer team from Tham Luang cave said today he may take legal action against Elon Musk after the Tesla CEO called him a “pedo”. Musk launched a stinging attack on Unsworth without providing any justification or explanation, after the cave expert slammed his offer of
