By Thai Newsroom Reporters A DOZEN POLITICAL activists today (Feb.14) demonstrated outside Police Hospital in desperate protest of an imminent release on parole of de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict Thaksin Shinawatra. The protesters, mostly being elderly persons led by the Students’ & People’s Network for Democratic Reform and the Centre for People in Protection
Month: February 2024
Disabled elderly woman nabbed for selling drugs
A DISABLED 78-year-old woman was arrested at northeastern Roi Et city on charges of selling methamphetamine pills to teenagers in the area, TV Channel 7 and Matichon newspaper said this afternoon (Feb. 14). Roi Et Narcotics Prevention and Suppression Operations Centre officials had found out that Mrs. Chotima Jeremiah, who is disabled and bedridden,
Read moreNo EM ankle bracelet for ‘untouchable’ Thaksin
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN EM ANKLE BRACELET will definitely not be put on the “untouchable” de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict Thaksin Shinawatra during his parole, according to a senior government official. Corrections Department director-general Sahakarn Petchanarin confirmed today (Feb.14) Thaksin may go around anywhere in the country without an EM ankle bracelet during
Read moreTawan carried to police van after being arrested with Frank
DIN DAENG police had to carry Ms. Tantawan Tuatulanond, or Tawan, to a police vehicle in transferring her and her colleague, Mr. Natthanon Chaimahabud, or Frank, to Chalong Krung police station last night (Feb. 13) after being earlier arrested for honking their car horn at a royal motorcade and arguing with policemen on Feb.
Read morePM reaffirms intention to complete full term
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin reassured today (Feb.13) he has unfaltering intention to run the country throughout the Pheu Thai-led government’s four-year term during which, he said, the people’s welfare will be better. The Pheu Thai-endorsed Srettha was apparently responding to sustained speculation that he might possibly be pressed to resign
Read moreJustice minister confirms Thaksin has been granted parole
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS-CUM-CONVICT Thaksin Shinawatra has already been granted parole, confirmed Justice Minister Thawee Sodsong today (Feb.13). After spending half of his curtailed, one-year jail sentence accounting for a six-month period at Police Hospital since August, the de facto Pheu Thai boss is being released on parole among
Read moreJournalist, photographer bailed out
A JOURNALIST and a freelance photographer who were arrested yesterday (Feb. 12) on charges of supporting the spraying of an anti-Section 112 of the Criminal Code, or lese majeste law, message on the outside wall of the Temple of Emerald Buddha last year have been bailed out at 35,000 baht each, Matichon newspaper said
Read moreJournalist, photographer remanded in custody
A JOURNALIST and a freelance photographer who were arrested yesterday (Feb. 12) on charges of supporting the spraying of an anti-Section 112 of the Criminal Code, or lese majeste law, message on the outside wall of the Temple of Emerald Buddha last year were ordered remanded in custody by the Criminal Court as had
Read morePanpree-Blinken hold talks on boosting strategic partnership
DEPUTY Prime Minister-cum-Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-nukara held talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington yesterday (Feb. 12, US time) during which it was agreed to advance Thailand-US Strategic Alliance and Partnership, Matichon newspaper said. The Thai minister and his delegation are officially visiting US at Blinken’s invitation. This discussion is a
Read moreCambodia reports a new bird flu case, the brother of a 9-year-old who died of the virus
By AP and published by US News & World Report Phnom Penh, Cambodia — The brother of a boy who died last week from bird flu has tested positive for the virus, Cambodia’s Health Ministry said on Monday (Feb. 12). The nine-year-old’s death in the northeastern province of Kratie was the first from bird
Read moreChinese Coast Guard ship intimidates Filipino vessel in South China Sea
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A CHINESE COAST GUARD ship has allegedly intimidated and provoked a Philippine Coast Guard vessel by sailing by in near-collision fashion in the South China Sea. The Philippine Coast Guard has issued a statement over the weekend to hold the Chinese Coast Guard accountable for a dangerous maritime manoeuvre with
Read moreMove to reduce speed limit on 40 busy Bangkok roads to 50km per hour
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE SPEED LIMIT FOR automobiles running on 40 congested roads in Bangkok’s inner part has been proposed to be reduced from 80km to 50km per hour for pedestrian safety reasons. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Traffic & Transportation Department has proposed to the Bangkok Metropolitan Police that the legal speed limit
Read moreStop creating new monsters, don’t repeat October event: Rangsiman
WITH detractors now accusing Move Forward Party of being linked to the activists who honked a car horn at a royal motorcade on Feb. 4 because some members had been the bail bond agent for activists in the past, the party’s spokesman Rangsiman Rome urged the public to not create new monsters in the
Read moreThai travel industry urged to reduce usage of US$ for doing business
THE Thai travel & tourism industry has been warned about using the US dollar for business transactions and urged to use the currencies of the countries with which they are doing business. In a landmark lecture at this year’s joint meeting of the Association of Thai Travel Agents and the Thai Hotels Association on
Read moreDeadline set for reporting loan shark debts
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PEOPLE WHO MAY OWE debt to loan sharks but have not yet reported it to the authorities were today (Feb.11) encouraged to do so until the end of this month. The Ministry of Interior’s undersecretary Sutthipong Chulcharoen recommended those who may still have their illicit debt unsettled and unreported promptly
Read moreMost Bangkokians would prefer old bus numbers: NIDA Poll
By Thai Newsroom Reporters MOST BANGKOKIANS WOULD prefer all public buses plying the capital city use the old numbers which they have already remembered and find the new ones quite confusing, says the latest NIDA Poll. According to the NIDA Poll recently conducted among a total of 708 Bangkokians who regularly commute on city
Read moreBoat carrying Chinese tourists capsizes, all safely rescued
A LONG-TAIL boat carrying seven Chinese tourists plus the vessel’s crew members capsized off Krabi today (Feb. 11) but fortunately all were safely rescued by a passing boat, Amarin TV said. The accident occurred near Koh Lao Lading island, around 300 metres from Koh Hong with the two islands being part of Krabi’s Than
Read moreDeath threats against activist posted online
FOLLOWING A brawl between royalists and activists conducting a poll on royal motorcades at BTS Siam’s skywalk yesterday (Feb. 10), a young man posted images of two flyers thrown down from this station with death threats against key activist Ms. Tantawan Tuatulanond, Matichon newspaper said this morning. This occurred after an incident on Feb.
Read moreFacing battlefield setbacks, Myanmar’s junta activates conscription law
By AP and published by ABC News MYANMAR’S military government on Saturday (Feb. 10) activated for the first time a decade-old conscription law that makes young men and women subject to at least two years of military service if called up, effective immediately. The announcement of the measure on state television amounts to a
Read morePita suggests Plan B be applied in lieu of digital wallet project
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER MOVE FORWARD leader Pita Limjaroenrat today (Feb.10) suggested the Pheu Thai-led government prepare and apply Plan B in place of the much-heralded, highly contentious digital wallet project. Pita advised the government to put Plan B to work if the populist handout campaign, the implementation of which has already been
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