EVEN AS Thai netizens joined the whole country in mourning the tragic death of 23 mainly kindergarten and primary schoolchildren and teachers in a bus that caught fire on Vibhavadi Rangsit road while on a field trip on Monday (Oct. 1), a special focus is on an heroic young boy who had managed to
Month: October 2024
Sawaeng lambasted for speaking in defence of Bhumjaithai
By Thai Newsroom Reporters ELECTION COMMISSION Secretary-General Sawaeng Boonmee was today (Oct, 2) vehemently condemned for verbally defending the Bhumjaithai over a lawsuit earlier filed and yet delayed in pursuit of dissolution of the second largest coalition party. Patrapong Supaksorn, the lawyer who had filed the lawsuit against the Bhumjaithai under de facto party
Read moreSatun gears up for influx of tourists during Vegetarian Festival
WITH the Vegetarian Festival this year starting tomorrow (Oct. 3) and running till the following Friday (Oct. 11) among the provinces getting ready for an influx of tourists is southernmost Satun, TV Channel 7 said today. Every year large numbers of tourists, especially Malaysians, travel to join this traditional event during which those observing
Read moreInferno bus in use for 54 years
THE BUS that caught fire on Vibhavadi Rangsit road leading to the tragic death of 23 mainly kindergarten and primary schoolchildren and teachers had been in use for 54 years with the engine switched from Isuzu to Benz at a later date, Amarin TV said this morning (Oct. 2). This bus, the second of
Read morePrawit no longer accepts salary, entitlement pay as MP
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PALANG PRACHARATH LEADER Prawit Wongsuwan has today (Oct. 1) resolved to no longer accept the salary and entitlement pay to which he is eligible as an MP and to return all the money which he has earlier accepted. Prawit, the only party-listed MP of the second largest opposition party who
Read more25 schoolchildren, teachers die in bus blaze
AS MANY AS 25 schoolchildren and teachers died after their bus caught fire in front of the National Memorial on Vibhavadi Rangsit road at 12.25 p.m. today (Oct. 1) with 19 others who escaped being rushed to hospital, Amarin TV and Thai Rath newspaper said. This bus, the second of a convoy of three,
Read moreThaksin might escape again due to alleged fake-out at Police Hospital
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra might probably manage to escape from jail again if he is freshly charged with alleged premeditated fake-out during a six-month period at Police Hospital, according to a partisan source. Upon last year’s homecoming from self-exile abroad, the father of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra
Read moreA Cambodian reporter who investigated online scam centres has been arrested
By Grant Peck and Sopheng Cheang – AP and published by Yahoo!News Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Cambodian freelance reporter Mech Dara, noted for investigative reporting in a country with limited press freedom, was arrested yesterday (Sep. 30), a leading local human rights organisation and a journalists association said. Known especially for investigating online scam
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