By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul today (Aug.10) shrugged off hearsay that a dozen Klatham MPs were quietly becoming turncoats from the fourth largest party headed by former agriculture & cooperatives minister Thammanat Prompao to the Bhumjaithai, core of the current coalition government, albeit in rebellious manner. The prime minister who concurrently
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Chinese nominee hotel owner in Bangkok offers cash during raid
A RAID on illegal nominee businesses in Bangkok’s Huay Kwang district by Deputy Interior Minister Polapee Suwunchwee: and his team today (Aug. 9) surprisingly led to a Chinese nominee hotel owner calling his team and offering to reach a settlement claiming he was already paying cash to government officials, Naewna newspaper said late this
Read morePopulist measures can lead to crisis while investing in Myanmar risky: Anusorn
RECKLESSLY implementing populist measures could lead to Thailand being hit by a sovereign debt crisis as faced by some Latin American countries in the 1990s and Greece, Spain, and Italy during 2009-2010 while promoting investment in Myanmar may seriously endanger Thai capital and businesses venturing forth, Dr. Anusorn Thammajai, a People’s MP who staged
Read moreHatyai school moves classes online after alleged threats by former foreign teacher
HATYAI Wittayalai School announced moving classes online on Monday and Tuesday (Aug. 10-11) after a former foreign teacher allegedly posted messages and images of weapons that appeared to be a threat to shoot the administrators and teachers, TV Channel 7 and PPTVHD36 said this evening (Aug. 8). At 4.20 p.m. Ms. Thivichaya Meechuworapong, the
Read morePM rejects calls permitting teachers to carry firearms
AFTER the deadly school shooting by a 14-year-old male student leading to seven fatalities, including himself, within the premises with the perpetrator having also shot dead his grandparents prior to that Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul today (Aug. 8) rejected proposals to allow teachers to carry firearms, TV Channel 7 and PPTVHD36 said. Anutin bluntly
Read morePolice questioning teachers and classmates over deadly school shooting
POLICE investigators are urgently questioning teachers and classmates of a 14-year-old male student who went on a rampage killing five teachers, a young girl, and injuring over 20 others before taking his own life after having also killed his grandparents at their home in Nonthaburi yesterday (Aug. 7), Amarin TV and Naewna newspaper said
Read more19 university student groups jointly protest Myanmar leader’s visit to Thailand
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NINETEEN student groups at three major universities today (Aug.7) aired a concerted protest against Myanmar leader Min Aung Hlaing’s official visit to Thailand welcomed by the Bhumjaithai-led government. The 19 students groups attached to Chulalongkorn University, Thammasat University and Kasetsart University issued the joint statement to strongly denounce the Myanmar’s
Read moreShooting spree teen followed similar incidents in US: Police
AN INSPECTION of the computer used by a 14-year-old male student who went on a rampage at Thepsinin School in Nonthaburi this morning (Aug. 7) killing seven people including himself and injuring 15 others revealed a history of searching for similar incidents in the US, Amarin TV said. Pol. Lt. Gen. Wattana Yijin, commander
Read more13 children hurt as car rams into development centre after 7 die in school shooting spree
A SECOND incident involving young children occurred today (Aug. 7) with a car crashing into a child development centre in Kanchanaburi’s Mueang district injuring 13 sleeping tots after a secondary school male student went on a shooting spree at his school in Nonthaburi leaving seven dead including himself and 15 others injured, Amarin TV and
Read moreGulf visitor arrivals save Thai tourism from low season disaster
A SURGE in visitors from the Gulf countries in July saved the beleaguered Thai tourism sector from what would have been an unmitigated disaster. A few weeks of relative calm in the Gulf allowed flights to operate more or less normally, leading to a spectacular surge in arrivals during the so-called
Read moreMyanmar leader calls on Thai businesses to invest in his country
MYANMAR President Min Aung Hlaing urged Thai businesses to invest in his country assuring them of legal protection while highlighting development of deep-sea shipping at Dawei Port as a gateway to South Asia, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (Aug. 6). Speaking at Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre as co-chair of Thailand-Myanmar Business Forum 2026
Read moreBorder trade turns positive growing by 3.9% in June
THAILAND’S border trade registered a growth of 3.9 percent for the first time in 13 months in June driven by trade with Malaysia and Laos but the figure for Cambodia remained zero as all border checkpoints are stll shut, PPTVHD36 said today (Aug. 6). Ms. Arada Fuengthong, director-general of the Department of International Trade,
Read moreMyanmar president visits Thailand on quest for legitimacy as Bangkok backs engagement
By Panu Wongcha-um, Reuters, and published by Yahoo!News MYANMAR’S junta chief turned President Min Aung Hlaing will make an official visit to Thailand today (Aug. 6), as Bangkok makes a push for re-engagement between its war-torn neighbour and the regional bloc Asean. Myanmar’s leaders have been barred from summits of the Association of Southeast
Read moreUniversities being probed over foreign student admission issue
DEPUTY Prime Minister-cum-Minister of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESI) Yodchanan Wongsawat today (Aug. 5) ordered a thorough investigation of all universities that have foreign student admission programmes, scrutinising both degree and non-degree courses, with legal action to be taken against any wrongdoing without exception, Amarin TV said. Yodchanan took action after media
Read more100,000-baht reward offered for tip leading to capture of Laotian gold shop robbers
THAI police set a 100,000-baht reward for information leading to the arrest of two Laotian robbers who stole around 13-million-baht worth of ornaments from a gold shop in Chiang Khong district of Chiang Rai province last evening (Aug. 4) and fled across the border to their homeland, Amarin TV said this evening. The ornaments
Read moreProbe into local government exam fraud closed: PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul today (Aug.5) called it closed an in-depth investigation into kickback-generated cheating over exam papers for last year’s recruitment of local government personnel, saying those evidently involved will certainly be punished by law. The prime minister confirmed the official probe conducted by the so-called central committee of
Read moreArmy continues blasting People’s MP for questioning strength of bunkers
AN ARMY spokesman today (Aug. 5) lambasted a People’s MP who raised questions about the quality and cost-effectiveness of bunkers built along the Thai-Cambodian border at Chanthaburi and Trat provinces after Gen. Sarawut Chanphum, commander of Thai Army Development Command, had already on Monday (Aug. 3) confirmed that they were strong, Naewna newspaper said.
Read moreAnother car bomb blast in Narathiwat but no casualties
SHORTLY after a car bomb blast in Far South Narathiwat province late last month slightly injured one official followed by an attack on a checkpoint that killed five rangers and injured six civilians the next day an improvised explosive device (IED) that was planted in an official vehicle was set off this evening (Aug.
Read moreThailand and Indonesia to boost trade to US$23 billion by 2030
By Thai Newsroom and Naewna newspaper THAI Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Indonesian President Prabowo Subinanto agreed to increase bilateral trade to the value of US$23 billion by 2030 during the former’s two-day visit that ended today (Aug. 4) with this being the first visit to Indonesia by a Thai premier in 15 years.
Read moreElection commissioners warned of jail for failure to file senatorial rigging case in court
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ELECTION COMMISSIONERS could possibly be thrown in jail if they eventually failed to file a lawsuit pertaining to an alleged senatorial rigging conspiracy in court, prominent academics cautioned today (Aug.4). During a special seminar at parliament held by chief opposition whip Parit Wacharasindhu on 2024’s electoral fraud allegedly involving
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