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Chinese warned over Thai weather
News, Post Reporters, Published on 23/09/2018
» The Chinese embassy in Bangkok has issued a safety warning to tourists travelling to Thailand during next month's "Golden Week" holiday, after six drowning incidents involving Chinese visitors occurred in August, according to a report by the <i>South China Morning Post</i>.
Art of the graft
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 03/06/2018
» Coup leader Gen (Ret) Prayut Chan-o-cha first mentioned his programme concerning corruption in late May, 2014, not long after seizing power. It was so long ago that there wasn't even a National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO). It was still called the National Peace and Order Maintaining Council (NPOMC).
Squeezing the blood out of a durian
News, Soonruth Bunyamanee, Published on 25/04/2018
» With Thai durians selling like hot cakes on Alibaba's Tmall platform, the regime has every reason to believe its deal to have the e-commerce giant promote Thai products will be a resounding success. But Thai farmers may not necessarily gain as much from this as they expect.
Submarine legacy
News, Postbag, Published on 15/06/2017
» Re: "Risky legacy for govt's pet projects", (Opinion, June 12).
String of bombs rocks South
Published on 12/08/2016
» The country is on high alert following a total of 13 bombing incidents that killed four people and injured 35 others in five southern provinces between Wednesday and Friday morning.
Public divided on referendum vote
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 01/08/2016
» Politics, health care and basic education and help for the poor will be the deciding factors for some wage-earning and self-employed voters.
Nabbed Thai students suspected of 'IS link'
News, Published on 12/06/2015
» Five Thai students arrested in Pakistan for trying to smuggle a pistol and ammunition aboard a flight to Bangkok are suspected of having links to local insurgents and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), intelligence sources said.
Detention camp horrors grow
News, Post Reporters, Published on 04/05/2015
» Thousands of Rohingya people who are possibly victims of human trafficking are being kept in at least 60 detention camps scattered throughout mountains along the Thai-Malaysian border, says a former president of the Rohingya Association of Thailand.
Local conflict may be behind the Koh Samui bombing
Wassana Nanuam, Published on 12/04/2015
» The car bomb at the Central Festival shopping centre on Koh Samui late Friday night might have been caused by a local business or political conflict, according to a report from the government committee on solving problems in the southern border provinces.
Inheritance tax draft bill green-lighted
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 19/11/2014
» The cabinet yesterday endorsed the draft bill for an inheritance tax that seeks to impose a 10% levy on bequests of more than 50 million baht.