HOT on the heels of tropical storm Sonca is a new one heading this way with this being severe tropical storm Nesat that is likely to intensify into a typhoon but the cold air mass from China currently covering upper Thailand and South China Sea will cause it weaken rapidly, the Thai Meteorological Department
Read moreDay: October 16, 2022
Korn named top leader of Chart Pattana Kla Party
By Thai Newsroom Reporters KORN CHATIKAVANIJ has become top leader of the Chart Pattana Kla Party following a merger between a couple of small-sized political camps. During today’s (Oct. 16) general caucus of the Chart Pattana Kla Party following the recent partisan merger between the Chart Pattana and Kla, Korn was unanimously named top
Read moreTight security in Mae Sot after two explosions in Myawaddy
THAI soldiers and police beefed up security in risky areas of Mae Sot border town after two explosions, one of them a car bomb, rocked Myanmar’s Myawaddy town which is just across the Moei river last night (Oct. 15), Naewna newspaper said today. First to go off was a car bomb near Myanmar’s permanent
Read morePhuket and Phang Nga badly flooded after torrential rain
BOTH Phuket and Phang Nga were hit by flash floods upon being lashed by torrential rain today (Oct. 16) as a result of a monsoon trough moving across the central southern region, Amarin TV said. The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said this monsoon trough has triggered continuous rain in the South. So far
Read moreBlaze, shots heard from prison in Iran capital amid protests
By AP and published by Taiwan News Baghdad – A huge fire blazed on Saturday at a notorious prison where political prisoners and anti-government activists are kept in the Iranian capital. Online videos and local media reported gunshots, as nationwide protests entered a fifth week. Iran’s state-run IRNA reported that there were clashes between prisoners
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