THE Thai Meteorological Department’s Earthquake Watch Division said late afternoon today (June 25) that there has been a total of 40 earthquakes since yesterday afternoon in the Nicobar Islands area, India, Amarin TV said. The quakes began at 3.16 p.m. on June 24, 2025, and continued till 4.12 p.m. June 25, 2025. At 8.33
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Ruam Thai Sang Chart faces party dissolution bid
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE RUAM THAI SANG CHART, the currently second largest coalition partner of the Pheu Thai-led government, has been thrown into a pivotal legal battle with a fresh petition filed today (June 25) in pursuit of dissolution of the ultra-conservative party and a political ban to all the party’s executive board
Read moreMarijuana shop owners in Pattaya worried about new ministry announcement
MOST marijuana shop owners in Pattaya are worried about a new announcement by the Public Health Ministry on controlling the herb and allowing for only medical purposes pointing out that some tourists travelled to the seaside city to access it legally, TV Channel 7 said this morning (June 25). This TV channel’s reporters surveyed
Read moreSomsak tightens control of cannabis distribution
PUBLIC Health Minister Somsak Theopsuthin today (June 24) signed an announcement to control distribution of cannabis ensuring it is no longer freely available and emphasizing “medical use only”, Amarin TV said this evening. The key point of the announcement is cancelling the ministry’s announcement issued in 2022 and now making cannabis, specifically the flowers/buds,
Read moreNo damage done due to private telephone talk: Paetongtarn
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra today (June 24) categorically denied that her exposed conversation with Cambodian leader Hun Sen on her private cellphone has done any damage to Thailand at all. Speaking to reporters at Government House, the woman prime minister/daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, contended that
Read moreTwo men arrested transporting bomb from Songkhla to Phuket
TWO men driving through Phang Nga province in the wee hours of this morning (June 24) were arrested at a checkpoint after police found a suspicious object in their sedan which turned out to be a bomb, Amarin TV said. At approximately 3.30 a.m. a team of policemen who had set up a checkpoint
Read moreThe most catastrophic leadership failure in Travel & Tourism history
EXACTLY 30 years ago this November, the International Hotel Association convened for its annual convention in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was truly a Golden Age. Peace talks were under way to end centuries of conflicts in the Holy Land. Hope and optimism were in the air. The Dream Theme was “Peace Promotes Tourism Promotes
Read moreThailand cutting off power, Internet, export of oil and other goods to Cambodia
THAILAND is launching five measures to step up suppression of transnational crime in Cambodia, which was named in a UN report as one of the world’s largest global crime centres, with these including cutting off electricity supply, Internet connection and export of oil and other goods to Cambodia, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon. Speaking
Read moreConstitutional Court may keep Paetongtarn from running country from July 8
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT may either practically force Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra to stop running the country from early next month or simply drop charges filed against her to the extent that she has severely compromised ethics and honesty whilst handling Thai-Cambodian border conflict. The Constitutional Court is scheduled for July
Read moreChaos at 2 Thai-Cambodian checkpoints as control is stepped up
THERE was chaos at two key Thai-Cambodian checkpoints this morning (June 23) with motorcycles and all other two-wheeled vehicles forbidden from crossing over to the Thai side at one of them while Cambodians were unable to return to their homeland at the other, Amarin TV said. Meanwhile Second Army Region Commander Lt. Gen. Boonsin
Read moreWorld awaits Iranian response after US hits nuclear sites
By Reuters and published by CNA Istanbul/Washington/Jerusalem – The world braced on Sunday (June 22) for Iran’s response after the US attacked key Iranian nuclear sites, joining Israel in the biggest Western military action against the Islamic Republic since its 1979 revolution. A day after the US sent 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs crashing into the
Read moreRaid on cannabis shops selling spiked jelly and chocolates
PUBLIC Health Minister Somsak Thepsuthin today (July 22) launched a random inspection of 20 cannabis shops across Bangkok that are secretly selling jelly and chocolates mixed with the herb unapproved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Thai Rath newspaper said. This is in keeping with Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s order to stop illegal
Read moreTwo more checkpoints likely to be shut after closure of Buriram crossing
THAI Second Army Region Commander Lt. Gen. Boonsin Phadklang is gearing up to sign an order indefinitely closing two more border checkpoints after shutting Chong Sai Taku crossing in Buriram province this morning (June 22), Amarin TV said. This step was considered after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet followed suit and permanently shut two
Read moreSouth Korean financial, romance scammers nabbed in Chonburi villa raid
Updated at 12.55 a.m. A RAID on a luxury pool villa in Bang Lamung district of Chonburi today (June 21) led to the arrest of 20 South Korean men and just one Chinese man on the charges of running a financial and romance scam operation, Thai Rath newspaper said this evening. A team of
Read moreThaksin to keep Paetongtarn in power until budget bill’s final reading
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra has stalled for time to keep his daughter-turned-prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra in power until after legislation on the 2026 government budget passes final approval in parliament in August, a partisan source said over the weekend. Thaksin, father of the besieged woman prime minister,
Read moreHun Sen tells govt to stop importing Thai canned food, shrugs off oil cut threat
CAMBODIA’S former premier and current Senate President Hun Sen last night (June 20) urged his government to stop importing all types of canned food from Thailand if restricted border opening is not lifted while ignoring a Thai opposition party’s call to stop exporting oil, TV Channel 7 said this morning. In a Facebook post
Read more4 bar girls stabbed in Japanese bar-restaurant fight
A FIGHT between bar girls of one Japanese bar-restaurant in Sukhumvit Soi 23 and the owners of another similar establishment nearby led to four of them being stabbed and hospitalised, TV Channel 7 and Thai Rath newspaper said this evening (June 20). The fight broke out at 1.40 a.m. last night with Thonglor police
Read morePirapan eyed as probable replacement for Paetongtarn
By Thai Newsroom Reporters RUAM THAI SANG CHART leader Pirapan Salirathavibhaga might probably be named prime minister in place of the besieged Paetongtarn Shinawatra following the latter’s disreputable, erroneous handling of the Thai-Cambodian conflict, a partisan source said today (June 20). De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra has been quietly encouraged to tell
Read moreDrunk foreigner sleeping on Pattaya road hit by car
A SWEDISH man who was heavily intoxicated and fell asleep on the road in front of a Pattaya entertainment venue got hit on his head by a car that drove there to pick up a passenger in the wee hours of this morning (June 20), TV Channel 7 said. Pol. Lt. Wuttinan Kongdee, an
Read moreArmy confirms some Cambodians visited border temple
THE THAI army this morning (June 20) confirmed that a group of Cambodian tourists crossed the border and visited Prasat Ta Khwai temple in Surin province and sang a song there with this occurring after the neighbouring country filed a lawsuit at the International Court of Justice over this and two other ancient temples
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