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Thailand and Australia to consider visa waivers
Gary Boyle, Published on 15/02/2024
» Thailand and Australia have agreed to consider the possibility of introducing a mutual visa exemption scheme for travel and business activity between the people of both nations.
Dine-in services to resume
Published on 25/08/2021
» Restaurants may soon be allowed to resume dine-in services for fully vaccinated customers.
Government in hot water over shark-fin soup meal
Gary Boyle, Published on 05/12/2019
» Environmentalists have slammed the government and coalition parties for including shark-fin soup on the menu at a get-together on Tuesday night.
Taiwanese mull visa restriction on Thais
Gary Boyle, Published on 03/09/2018
» Taiwan is considering driving down visa-free entries for Thais from six times to twice a year after the number of Thai women discovered working in the sex trade in the territory jumped during the visa waiver programme's introduction two years ago.
Bogus policeman nabbed while pimping underage girl
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 20/06/2018
» A pimp who posed as a policeman when supplying young prostitutes for customers was caught in a police sting when he took an underage girl to a hotel in Chum Phae district of Khon Kaen on Tuesday night.
Checking in
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 26/03/2018
» Premchai Karnasuta, president of Italian-Thai Development Plc, and three other suspects in the illegal hunting case reported to the Thong Pha Phum provincial court on Monday morning.
PM calls for end to 'sex tourism image'
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 28/02/2018
» Thailand has to change its image as a sex tourism destination, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Tuesday.
Cartoonists react to killings of colleagues
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 08/01/2015
» Cartoonists around the world reacted quickly and defiantly to the killings of their French colleagues by terrorists, showing that their pens were more powerful than any guns.
Is it really that bad?
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 27/06/2013
» Nattawut Saikuar's music video promoting traditional grocery stores has been deleted from YouTube after the deputy commerce minister's creation received far more ridicule than praise from the 50,000 viewers who watched it.
Elephant electrocuted in Kaeng Krachan
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 14/06/2013
» The latest to die was a young wild male elephant whose trunk became entangled in a 220 volt farm electric fence inside the boundary of the park.