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India's biometric database crosses billion-member mark
AFP, Published on 04/04/2016
» NEW DELHI - India's biometric database notched up one billion members on Monday, as the government sought to allay concerns about privacy breaches in the world's biggest such scheme.
Nationwide ban on gas passenger boats
Published on 07/03/2016
» The Transport Ministry has banned the use of gas-powered passenger boats nationwide after Saturday's blast that injured 67 people in Bangkok's Khlong Saen Saep.
Rebel bomb-making base captured in Pattani
Jon Fernquest, Published on 11/02/2016
» Combined military-police force takes rebel bomb-making base concealed deep in mangrove forest, accessible only by boat.
Large, well-hidden insurgent base captured
Published on 11/02/2016
» PATTANI - Security forces captured a well-setup, hidden base used by a separatist insurgent group on Wednesday, arrested one suspect and seized a large quantity of bomb-making materials and weapons, in Pattani's Nong Chik district.
Epac cuts LPG price, subsidy to open market
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 04/02/2016
» The Energy Policy Administration Committee (Epac) has cut the retail price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by another two baht a kilogramme along with a logistics cost subsidy given to national oil and gas conglomerate PTT Plc to help free up the domestic LPG market.
Fire destroys 1,000 slum homes in India's Mumbai
AFP, Published on 07/12/2015
» MUMBAI - A massive fire sparked by a series of gas cylinder explosions swept through a packed slum in India's Mumbai on Monday, killing at least one person and destroying around 1,000 homes, officials said.
Two bombs explode in Yala, 5 injured
Published on 30/10/2015
» Two bombs exploded in Yala province on Friday morning, in Muang and Than To districts, injuring three policemen and two soldiers.
Tant withdraws application to join the police
Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 24/09/2015
» Singha beer heiress Chitpas "Tant" Kridakorn, a former co-leader of the anti-Yingluck government protests, withdrew her police application, saying tearfully she did not have enough luck.
Explosion at US base in Japan confirmed
AFP, Published on 24/08/2015
» WASHINGTON - A blast ripped through a US military post in Japan after midnight, triggering a fire, the Pentagon confirmed Sunday, noting that no injuries had been reported.
Army to ban steel gas tanks in South
News, Published on 04/08/2015
» All steel cooking gas cylinders used in the far South, which are favoured as bomb containers by insurgents, will be banned from October next year and replaced by those made from composite materials.