WHILE the severe flooding in northern Nan province started to ease today (Aug. 21) another man drowned in the floodwaters taking the provincial death toll to three while a fourth man died in similarly flooded northern Mae Hong Son province with red flags also raised in Phitsanulok and Phetchabun provinces, TV Channel 7 and
Day: August 21, 2026
Deputy Interior Minister leads team in busting nominee networks in Pattaya
DEPUTY Interior Minister Worasit Liangprasit accompanied by Justice Minister Pol. Lt. Gen. Rutthaphon Naowarat led their team in raiding a law firm, a hotel and a company in Pattaya City suspected of using Thai nationals as nominees in violation of Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 (1999) today (Aug. 21), Amarin TV said. Worasit said
Read moreThailand and New Zealand aim to triple trade by 2045
THAI Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and his New Zealand counterpart Christopher Luxon today (Aug. 21) signed a declaration elevating the relationship between the two countries to a “strategic partnership” level and agreed to triple bilateral trade to US$7.5 billion (approximately 246 billion baht) by 2045 while outlining plans to resume direct flights between Bangkok
Read moreGovt exam fraud dated back to time of Anutin’s father at Interior Ministry
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A PREPLANNED fraud on exam papers for applicants to be hired as chief district officers under command of the Ministry of Interior may have dated back to the time of former interior minister Chavarat Charnvirakul, father of Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, nearly two decades earlier, the People’s MP Pukkamon Nunarnan
Read moreMyanmar military offensive targets land for Russia-backed port project
By Reuters and published by Yahoo!News MYANMAR’S military has deployed hundreds of troops to forcibly clear areas marked for a Russia-backed special economic zone in the country’s south, burning villages and sealing off surrounding tracts of land, according to resistance fighters and a local activist with direct knowledge. The offensive around the Dawei Special
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