By Reuters and published by CNA THAILAND’S telecommunications regulator cleared the merger of the country’s second and third largest mobile operators, True Corporation Pcl and Telenor ASA’s Total Access Communication Pcl (DTAC) with conditions. The conditions include a price ceiling and price controls, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC) said in a statement today
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Liz Truss resigns after six weeks as UK prime minister
By Agencies and published by CNA London – Liz Truss said today (Oct, 20) she was resigning as British prime minister just six weeks after she was appointed, brought down by an economic programme that sent shockwaves through the market and divided her Conservative Party. Speaking outside the door of her Number 10 Downing Street
Read moreFines for not wearing face mask being abolished
DEPUTY Prime Minister-cum-Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said today (Oct. 20) that one of five bills the National Communicable Diseases Committee approved abolishes fines for not wearing a face mask, TV Channel 7 said. Approved was the drafting of a National Communicable Disease Committee regulation repealing fines for failure to comply with Section 34
Read morePolice general transferred over drug allegations
NATIONAL Police Chief Pol. Gen. Damrongsak Kittiprapas ordered the transfer of Pol. Maj. Gen.Wasamae Salae, head of Narathiwat provincial police, to the headquarters in Bangkok amid allegations of links to drug cartels, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Oct. 20). Pol. Gen. Damrongsak, who assigned Pol. Maj. Gen. Wasamae to duties at the Operations Centre,
Read moreChiang Mai’s dams stable after pre-dawn earthquake
CHIANG MAI’S Irrigation Bureau 1 said this northern province’s two dams remained stable after a 4.1 magnitude earthquake with a very shallow depth of 2 kilometres hit Mae Khue subdistrict of Doi Saket district at 4.36 a.m. this morning (Oct. 20), Sanook.com said. Mae Kuang Udom Thara Dam in Doi Saket district experienced peak
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