• THAILAND

  Expressway death sparks new purge

  News, Post Reporters, Published on 06/09/2018

  » This week's car accident on an elevated expressway which saw an elderly woman thrown to her death has prompted authorities to look at clamping down on drivers who treat the hard shoulder as an extra lane during rush hours.

• THAILAND

  SMOP is a flop

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 08/10/2017

  » Last Sunday night, an anti-drug squad caught two men carrying 400kg of crystal methamphetamine from Myanmar, ya ice worth 400 million baht on the street. On Monday and on Tuesday, police in Udon Thani and Mukdahan busted two cross-Mekong shipments of compressed marijuana from Laos, now Japan's major weed supplier. Combined, they weighed a tonne.

• THAILAND

  Korat cattle hard hit by lack of water

  Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 30/06/2019

  » NAKHON RATCHASIMA: It's not just rice and other crops that have fallen victim to the severe drought that has afflicted this northeastern province -- the cows and buffaloes in Non Sung district are also suffering, according to local media reports.

• THAILAND

  Regime criticpulls a 180

  News, Published on 28/04/2018

  » When the cabinet appointed Phalang Chon Party leader Sonthaya Khunplome as an adviser to the prime minister to help the government with its work, few rallied to its side.

• THAILAND

  Easing the burden on farmers

  News, Published on 04/11/2017

  » Farming rice is a back-breaking job with the physical burden weighing down on poor farming families who have few people to help. But all that could change with the invention of a remotely operated mobile tractor now put to the test in a small rice farm in Sukhothai.

• THAILAND

  About Poliitics

  News, Published on 12/08/2017

  » Navigating the perils of police reform won't be easy v 'Start-up digital-duo' laying the groundwork to transform industries v Anti-graft researcher Sangsidh 'victimised' for what he says are non-existent political affiliations

• THAILAND

  God and good luck guide train travellers in far South

  AFP, Published on 27/12/2016

  » SUNGAI KOLOK, Narathiwat - For passengers on the 12:33 train from Songkhla's Hat Yai to Sungai Kolok, god and good luck are touchstones for survival.

• THAILAND

  Body in suitcase found in Bangkok canal

  Online Reporters, Published on 03/04/2016

  » The body of an unidentified man believed to be an Indian national was found stuffed into a suitcase thrown into Khlong Ong Ang in Phra Nakhon district on Sunday.

• THAILAND

  Climate pact ready, now comes the hard part

  Published on 05/12/2015

  » PARIS — Negotiators from 195 nations delivered a blueprint on Saturday for a pact intended to protect humanity from the consequences of rampant emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases.

• THAILAND

  Prayut to extol regime gains at UN

  News, Published on 23/09/2015

  » Prime Minister and coup leader Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is expected to highlight the progress the government has made in fighting human trafficking during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) this week, but how he will handle criticism of the ruling junta's poor human rights record remains to be seen.  

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