Bangkok prison suspends visits, university cancels classes as floods hit city
Following heavy weekend rains that inundated many parts of Bangkok and its suburbs, the Bangkok Remand Prison today announced it suspended all services due to flooding.
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Following heavy weekend rains that inundated many parts of Bangkok and its suburbs, the Bangkok Remand Prison today announced it suspended all services due to flooding.
The Similan Islands National Park’s diving team is working to retrieve large and heavy remnants of discarded fishing gear in Nguang Chang Bay as part of efforts to restore the marine ecosystem and reduce threats to rare marine species.
The ASEAN Observer Team (AOT) based in Thailand has reported that Cambodian troops are not cooperating in mine clearance efforts and are blocking the Thai Mine Action Centre (TMAC) unit from undertaking demining operations in Chong Sai Taku border area in Ban Kruad district of Buri Ram province.
Huntingdon, United Kingdom - UK police arrested two suspects after a multiple stabbing on a London-bound train late Saturday, with "a number of people" taken to hospital triggering a "large-scale" emergency response.
Malaysia’s Communications Ministry is holding an internal inquiry into its public broadcaster, RTM, for misidentifying three ASEAN leaders, including Thailand’s, during its live broadcast of the ASEAN Summit’s opening ceremony on October 26.
The US and Cambodia will revive their flagship joint military exercises, known as ‘Angkor Sentinel’, for the first time in eight years in the latest sign of warming ties, following a flurry of deals between the two sides, including a Trump-backed peace accord with Thailand.
Thailand’s famous Loy Krathong festival will be held as usual this year, despite an anticipated reduction in consumer spending, as people nationwide are mourning the recent passing of late Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has offered a public apology over a remark he made, which he called a “miscommunication”, about the territorial dispute with Cambodia, which has provoked an uproar, especially among anti-Cambodia nationalist groups.
The Thai Marine Corps, based near the border with Cambodia in the Muang district of the eastern province of Trat, is waiting for an order from their commander to reclaim a small area in Chamrak sub-district from Cambodian troops.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has dismissed a petition from the Election Commission, asking the corruption watchdog to determine whether former prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra had committed gross ethical violations over the appointment of Phichit Chuenban, a lawyer of the Shinawatra family, as a political appointee.
UNESCO has designed Songkhla in the South and Nan in the North as UNESCO Creative Cities for 2025 on the occasion of World Cities Day yesterday.
Deputy Prime Minister Borwornsak Uwanno has defended the MoU on critical minerals between Thailand and the United States, saying that the document does not constitute a “blank cheque” because the US has promised to lift non-tariff barriers on many Thai products.
On October 4, 2025, Thailand lost Ammar Siamwalla, one of its most respected economists and a towering figure in the country’s development discourse.
The Democrat Party has turned to one of Thailand’s leading futurists in a bid to rebound from its biggest crisis in eight decades.
The United States has sought to clarify that the recently signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Thailand on critical and rare earth minerals is intended to strengthen bilateral cooperation on supply chain resilience rather than create a binding legal framework.
When Vorapak Tanyawong joined the Finance Ministry on September 19, few thought he would be quitting just a month later.