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Thailand should establish temporary border shelters for Rohingya migrants to protect them from falling victim to human trafficking networks, as their sole reason for leaving Myanmar is the ongoing internal conflict, said Siyeed Alam, president of the Rohingya Association of Thailand.
The opposition People’s party is ready challenge the ruling Pheu Thai party in the PAO mayoral elections, scheduled for February 1, and is not worried by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s campaigning in support of Pheu Thai candidates, Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut, People’s party leader, said today.
Thai cybercrime suppression officers have arrested nine Thais and one Myanmar citizen, alleged to be members of a Chinese-run call centre gang which made over 700 million fake phone calls in the first six months of this year and sent one million fake online messages in just three days to their potential victims using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunk technology, according to the Technology Crime Suppression Centre.
A Hong Kong court on Tuesday jailed all 45 defendants convicted in the city's largest trial under its sweeping national security law, with "mastermind" Benny Tai receiving the longest term of 10 years.
Thirty-six dugongs have died this year, including five in November alone, largely of starvation due to the depletion of sea grass, believed to be caused by global warming. Sea grass used to be abundant in their feeding grounds in the seas of Trang, Krabi and Phuket, according to Thon Thamrongnawasawat, a marine expert at Kasetsart University.
Police General Surachate Hakparn’s rollercoaster career may have finally come off the tracks after three decades of twists ended with his dismissal as deputy national police chief and rejection of his appeal.
Former actor Rattapoom Tokongsup has quit the Palang Pracharath party, effective November 15, after being implicated in an extortion case.
Police are investigating the death of a man of unknown nationality, who plunged to his death from the 4th floor of a shopping mall in the north-eastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima on Monday evening.
Thailand has agreed to return 963 lemurs and rare turtles, seized from wildlife traffickers in the southern province of Chumphon in May this year, to Madagascar.
US President Joe Biden's decision to authorize Ukraine to use long-range American missiles against targets inside Russia is a bold shift in position in the final months before he hands over power to Republican Donald Trump.
Starting next year, peritoneal dialysis will become the first treatment option for kidney patients under the universal health coverage scheme.
A few strands of hair, belonging to a murder suspect, found in the fingers of the victim have given the police in Rayong province a vital piece of evidence in the investigation of the robbery and murder of a public prosecutor’s mother-in-law.
Thai beauty queen Suchata "Opal" Chuangsri, who won third runner-up in the recent Miss Universe beauty pageant, said she feels extremely proud to have had the chance to represent Thailand at the event.
As a bomb descended on a multi-story apartment building in Beirut’s Tayouneh area Friday, hundreds of onlookers gathered in the street at a traffic roundabout several hundred meters (yards) away.
Thailand’s economic think-tank, the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC), has projected that the Thai economy will grow by 2.6% in 2024, compared to only 1.9% last year. Global economic growth is expected to be 3%.
Thai Pakdee Party’s advisory chairman Warong Dechgitvigrom has submitted a petition to the chairman of the Election Commission (EC), demanding an investigation into former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s public statements during campaign rallies in Udon Thani province last week, which, he claims, show that Thaksin is dominating the ruling Pheu Thai party.
