By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE THAI MARITIME Enforcement Command Centre’s Area 3 plans to set up a special task force in charge of maintaining the country’s maritime interests in the Andaman Sea, confirmed a vice admiral today (July 22, 2020). Thai-MECC Area 3 commander Vice Adm Choengchai Chomchoengpat said the task force will be set
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US orders China to close consulate in Houston — China vows retaliation
By agencies, published by Channel NewsAsia Copenhagen: The US State Department said today (July 22) that the closing of China’s consulate in Houston was to protect Americans’ intellectual property and private information, a move that has further strained the already tense relations between the world powers. Spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said that under the Vienna Convention,
Read moreEmergency decree ‘not being extended to control students’
JUST AS the National Security Council came out today (July 22) to clearly state that the extension of the state of emergency by another month till end of August is not aimed at political gain nor control students, a group of students called for another rally on Friday, Sanook.com reported this afternoon. Gen. Somsak Rungsita
Read moreAmerican charged with defrauding Thai investor
ARRESTED and charged with swindling a Thai investor is an American man who was tracked down to a hotel in Watthana district where he was hiding, INN News reported today (July 22, 2020). Pol.Lt.Gen. Sompong Chingduong, head of the Immigration Bureau, together with officers from the Special Crime Operation Sub-division told the Press that the
Read moreThousands of fake designer handbags seized in raid
POLICE swooped down on a warehouse in Amnart Charoen province and seized as many as 20,000 to 30,000 counterfeit luxury handbags, INN News reported this morning (July 22, 2020). Pol. Lt. Col. Payao Thongsen, director of the Intellectual Property Litigation Division, together with Amnart Charoen police had got a search warrant from the Central Intellectual
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