By Thai Newsroom Reporters A FRESH PETITION undersigned by over 100,000 people in opposition to a Thai-Cambodian MoU on a joint undersea natural resources development project will be submitted to the Pheu Thai-led government on the upcoming Friday. Thai Pakdee chair Warong Dechgitvigrom confirmed today (Nov. 20) that the mass petition to which over
Day: November 20, 2024
Workers evacuated, construction of Guanyin statue halted after blasts
EXPLOSIONS at a camp of workers building the world’s largest Guanyin statue in Songkhla early this morning which injured three of them and terrified the local people has led to temporary halt of the construction with all 90 workers evacuated, Naewna newspaper said this evening (Nov. 20). After the two bombs planted within the
Read moreThai members to a joint undersea resources panel to be named ASAP
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER Maris Sangiampongsa confirmed today (Nov. 20) a group of persons will be named “as soon as possible” to sit on a Joint Technical Committee for a profit-sharing, undersea resources development project between Thailand and Cambodia. Maris stopped short of elaborating on the shortly-anticipated naming of members on
Read moreCourt orders death sentence for serial killer Am Cyanide
THE CRIMINAL Court on Ratchadapisek today (Nov. 20) today ordered the execution of serial killer Ms. Sararat Rangsiwutthaporn, or Am, while her ex-husband was sentenced to one year and four months in jail and her lawyer was given two years in prison without probation for helping destroy evidence, TV Channel 7 and Amarin TV
Read moreRussia vows response after Ukraine fires long-range US missiles
By AFP and published by CNA Kyiv – Russia warned on Tuesday (Nov. 19) that it would respond after Ukraine fired longer-range US missiles at its territory for the first time, as President Vladimir Putin issued a nuclear threat after a thousand days of the war. A senior official told AFP that a strike
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