COMMOTION erupted at “Miss Grand International 2024” beauty pageant today (Oct. 26) with the Myanmar national director grabbing and removing the crown and sash from his country’s contestant after she was named second-runner with Miss India Rachel Gupta having won the contest, Naewna newspaper said. The first runner-up is Miss Grand Philippines Christine Juliane
Month: October 2024
Chinese submarine purchase plan to be finalised sooner than later
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEFENCE MINISTER PHUMTHAM Wechayachai confirmed last night (Oct. 25) the navy’s long-delayed plan to buy a Chinese-built S26T submarine will be finalised sooner than later. Phumtham said the navy’s plan to buy the Yuan-class S26T submarine from China Shipbuilding & Offshore International with a Chinese-made engine to be installed aboard
Read moreOver 144m baht more assets of The iCon Group seized
THE Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) this evening (Oct. 25) ordered the temporary freezing or seizure of additional assets of the The iCon Group and its executives worth over 144 million baht, with its 18 bosses being held in detention after investors complained to police that they had lost hundreds of thousands and up to
Read morePolice brace for more explosions after car bomb rocks Pattani
AFTER a car bomb exploded in Pattani province soon after midnight yesterday (Oct. 24) investigators have found out that the insurgents are moving to set off four improvised explosive devices simultaneously in four southern border provinces during Oct. 24-28, Naewna newspaper said today. Investigators were also informed by local sources that two explosive devices
Read moreCabbie apologises after stabbing Aussie tourist with cutter
A BANGKOK taxi driver who was tracked down and arrested after stabbing an Australian man in the wee hours of Wednesday (Oct. 23) during a row over damage to his vehicle apologised to the tourist after being apprehended, Amarin TV said this morning (Oct. 25). Pol. Col. Phanom Chuathong, superintendent of Thung Maha Mek
Read moreHouse votes to reject amnesty report observations
AFTER a lengthy debate the House of Representatives voted down a special committee’s observations on a report on drafting an amnesty bill for political offenders with only the report being sent to the Cabinet for consideration, Naewna newspaper said this evening (Oct. 24). After the debate concluded at 4.30 p.m. 270 MPs voted to
Read moreNo executive decree to extend Tak Bai’s litigation period: PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NO EXECUTIVE DECREE could be issued by the Pheu Thai-led government to extend a 20-year litigation period for 2004’s Tak Bai incident in the Deep South, said Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra today (Oct. 24). Paetongtarn told reporters at Government House the historic manslaughter of 85 southern protesters, 78 of whom
Read morePM urged to apologise to the public over Tak Bai manslaughter
PRIME Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was today (Oct. 24) urged by Thai Sang Thai Party to apologise to the public over 2004’s Tak Bai manslaughter with the statute of limitations expiring tomorrow (Oct. 25), Thai Rath newspaper said. Party leader Sudarat Keyurapan said the stance of those in power over 2004’s manslaughter of 85 protesters
Read moreMcDonald’s US head vows to improve safety after E. coli outbreak, more cases expected
By Reuters and published by Yahoo!News MCDONALD’S scrambled yesterday (Oct. 23) to contain the damage from an E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder burgers that has killed one person and sickened nearly 50 others, as it pulled the menu item from restaurants across a dozen states. The outbreak has sickened people across the
Read morePheu Thai and People’s Party will push through amnesty report observations: Govt whip
WITH A House special committee’s observations on a report on drafting an amnesty bill for political offenders up for vote at the House of Representatives tomorrow (Oct. 24) the government whip said he is confident it would be approved as the largest parties both sides of the aisle, Pheu Thai and People’s, would be
Read moreThai visitor arrivals stats prove link between tourism and peace
THAILAND has reported 26.08 million arrivals in the nine-month Jan.-Sept. 2024 period, up 30.09% over the same period of 2023. A deeper analysis shows how the country is benefitting from both internal peace and external conflicts as it seeks to safeguard the role of tourism as an economic mainstay in the second year of
Read moreGrave robbers steal 12 skulls from Chonburi cemetery
A GRUESOME theft occurred at a Chonburi cemetery with grave robbers stealing 12 skulls of homeless dead buried there with this being the second time some skulls have been stolen, Thai Rath newspaper said late last evening (Oct. 22). At 6 p.m. yesterday Pol. Capt. Thawatchai Laphan, deputy investigation officer at Phanat Nikhom police
Read more3 kidnapped Chinese students released, safe
THREE Chinese students who were tricked to deliver goods from Mae Sot town on the Thai-Myanmar border to Bangkok then kidnapped and taken to Myawaddy town just across the Moei river in Myanmar were released after part of the ransom was paid and rescued by police while walking in a forest, Amarin TV said
Read moreConstitutional Court urges OAG to forward anti-Thaksin lawsuit
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN as bureaucratic red tape, the Constitutional Court today (Oct. 22) demanded that the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) take action in the wake of a lawsuit earlier filed against de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra and the largest ruling party and forward it over to
Read moreSoldier held for scamming 60 women he met through dating app
A SOLDIER was arrested today (Oct. 22) for scamming as many as 60 women he met through a dating app and blackmailing many of them by threatening to publish compromising video clips, Naewna newspaper said. Pol. Col. Chakaj Thiamwong, deputy commander of the Udon Thani provincial police, and his team announced the arrest of
Read moreKlatham now has four MPs skipping over from one-MP camps
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE KLATHAM LED BY Agriculture & Cooperatives Minister Narumon Pinyosinwat now has four MPs under the splinter party’s command. The Klatham earlier had no MPs until those elected lawmakers had skipped over from their previous camps to Narumon’s party. The four newly-registered Klatham MPs have recently defected from the four
Read moreThai worker’s body returning from Israel today, another worker injured
By TV Channel 7 and AFP – published by CNA WITH the war between Israel and its enemies, Hamas and Hezbollah, continuing in Gaza and Lebanon, Thais workers too have died and got injured with the body of one of them returning home today (Oct. 22) while another worker got hurt yesterday, TV Channel
Read morePolice hunting for 3 Chinese students held for ransom in Myanmar
POLICE are working out ways to track down and bring back three Chinese students who were tricked into going to Myanmar and are now being held for ransom there, TV Channel 3’s 3PlusNews said this evening (Oct. 21). Pol. Lt. Gen. Thiti Sangsawang, commissioner of Metropolitan Police Bureau, ordered his deputy, Pol. Maj. Gen.
Read moreFresh bid hatched to have Thaksin returned to jail
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE SUPREME COURT will be formally asked to pass a retroactive ruling to return de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra to prison after he had practically failed to serve a royal pardon-curtailed, one-year jail term last year. Former Democrat MP Charnchai Issarasenarak will shortly petition Supreme Court judges in
Read moreNewin snubs Thaksin’s casino promotion scheme
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO BHUMJAITHAI BOSS Newin Chidchob has categorically expressed his dissent to de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s sustained plan to promote casinos anywhere in Thailand, said a noted political critic over the weekend. During a hush-hush talk between the de facto Bhumjaithai and Pheu Thai bosses at the
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