By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin was today (Dec.28) encouraged to disband the National Strategies Committee which could be otherwise virtually viewed as a living legacy of a former coup junta. Move Forward MP Rangsiman Rome expressed his consent to the prime minister’s latest views of the 20-Year National Strategies as being
Day: December 28, 2023
8 nabbed in seizure of big lot of Myanmar rubber sheets
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A RIVER-CROSSING HAUL of a few tonnes of raw rubber from Myanmar was seized and eight smuggling suspects were arrested in Ranong today (Dec.28), police said. Troops from the 25th Infantry Regiment arrested the suspected smugglers, two Thai nationals and six Myanmar nationals for alleged involvement in the illegal haul
Read moreChina, Vietnam cautioned over dredging, landfill work on South China Sea reefs
By Thai Newsroom Reporters CHINA AND VIETNAM are advised to stop dredging and landfill work on submerged coral reefs of Spratly Islands in the South China Sea to help preserve the otherwise deteriorated ecological systems. Researchers at the Centre For Strategic And International Studies have recently cautioned that the Chinese, the Vietnamese and others
Read more10,000 tourists enjoy Full Moon Party at Koh Phangan
AS MANY AS 10,000 mostly young foreign and Thai tourists packed Haad Rin beach on Koh Phangan island to enjoy the Full Moon Party that continued all night till dawn today (Dec. 28) in a lively atmosphere with DJs playing loud music amid energic vibes, Naewna newspaper said. Some revellers had painted their themselves
Read moreGiant Kru Kai Kaew statue being moved after big fine
THE management of Bazaar Hotel on Ratchadapisek road is now moving the controversial statue of Kru Kai Kaew, an emaciated, winged figure with golden fangs and scarlet talons, from the front to the rear of the compound after the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) set a deadline and slapped a big fine, Matichon newspaper
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