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A construction contractor from Bangkok has won the contract to demolish the old Klang Dong police station building in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Klang Dong district today, with an open bid of 25,000 baht.
Scam call centres, based in Cambodia’s border town of Poipet opposite Aranyaprathet district of Sa Kaeo province, are the next crackdown targets. The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has decided to restrict cell phone and Wi-Fi connections to the town.
Two fourth-year students at Bangkok University will appear before Thanyaburi provincial court in Pathum Thani province today, as Khlong Luang district police seek their further detention for allegedly pouring hot soup on a junior student last Wednesday.
A 30-year-old Kenyan national was escorted to see Thai police in Phop Phra district of Tak province, after he escaped from his Chinese captors at a scam call centre in Kayan state of Myanmar.
Opas Boonchan, an executive of Win Process, a chemical waste plant in Rayong province, which was embroiled in numerous lawsuits concerning environmental damage and more, died in hospital on Sunday.
All petrol stations in Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai province have been ordered not to fill jerry cans or other containers with fuel, as Thailand tightens restrictions on the supplies of petrol, electricity and internet to five locations in Myanmar’s Tachileik and Myawaddy townships, as part of the Thai government’s measures to disrupt, if not shut down the operations of the Chinese-run scam call centres.
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said today that it is not time for cabinet reshuffle yet, because ministers are still getting along well, with the exception of some minor problems, which are being handled.
A landslide in China's southwestern Sichuan province triggered by heavy rain has killed at least one person, with nearly 30 more missing, state media said Sunday.
Five former Hamas hostages arrived back in Thailand this morning, into the warm embrace of their families who were at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport to meet them off their flight from Israel.
Granada, Spain - American actor Richard Gere called President Donald Trump a "bully" and a "thug" on Saturday during an awards ceremony in Spain, and said the United States was in a "very dark place".
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said yesterday that every government has to prioritise protecting its citizens, and as Thailand’s leader, she will also give priority to the Thai people.
Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt has defended the design and construction costs of new bus stop shelters in the capital and challenged critics who feel that they are too expensive.
Thai immigration police have decided to revoke the visas of 12 Chinese nationals arrested at a luxury pool villa in Bang Lamung district of Chon Buri yesterday, on charges of operating an unlicensed online lending service.
Police in Rayong province are trying to locate the relatives of a woman whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase floating in a pond behind a golf course in Ban Chang district of Rayong province on Friday.
Casinos and online gambling have continued as usual in Myanmar’s Payathonzu township, opposite the Three Pagodas Pass in Kanchanaburi province, since Thailand suspended the supply of electricity, petrol and internet to five locations in Tachileik and Payathonzu townships in Myawaddy on February 5.
A virtual three-way race at the February 1 local elections led to triumph for the ruling coalition’s second largest party, Bhumjaithai; embarrassment for the governing Pheu Thai Party; and a bitter lesson for the opposition-leading People’s Party, analysts said.
