By Thai Newsroom Reporters MP-TURNED-FARMER Boonmark Sirinaovakul says he has no idea whether bananas should be figuratively likened to cash which might possibly be handed out in hush-hush fashion to prospective voters or politicians in exchange for their votes at polling units or parliament. But Boonmark says he himself has been literally tending to a
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Silpakorn varsity president gets flak for posting photos of air hostesses
THE PRESIDENT of Silpakorn University said he will be more careful in future after one of a few photos he took of air hostesses with an accompanying message drew strong criticism on social media today (Apr. 27), Matichon newspaper said. Mr. Chaicharn Thavaravej, Silpakorn University’s president, admitted that he was the one who took
Read moreAnother aircraft debris washes up on southern beach prompting MH370 speculation
JUST a month after a mysterious piece of aircraft debris washed up on Nakhon Si Thammarat province’s Pak Phanang beach another puzzling fragment of a large plane landed at a nearby beach raising suspicions that it could belong to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared with 239 people on board during a flight from Kuala
Read morePhuket panel approves cancelling all Covid screenings from May 1
PHUKET’S Communicable Disease Committee yesterday (Apr. 26) approved the cancelling of all Covid screenings at all entry channels in keeping with the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) executive committee’s latest resolution, Thansettakij newspaper said. Phuket Governor Narong Woonsiew said the committee had analysed data on Covid situation from the Phuket Provincial Public Health Office
Read morePutin gets what he didn’t want: Ukraine army closer to West
By AP, and published by US New & World Report Washington — The longer Ukraine’s army fends off the invading Russians, the more it absorbs the advantages of western weaponry and training — exactly the transformation President Vladimir Putin wanted to prevent by invading in the first place. The list of arms flowing to
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