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Exquisite 3-bedroom condo for sale at Bang Na Country Complex
THIS striking three-bedroom, three-bathroom duplex penthouse condominium, totalling 133. 62 square metres, is available for sale at ฿6,180,000 (฿46,251/SqM) and is also available for long term rental starting from ฿28,000 per month. It sits atop Country Complex, Building B, which is the middle of three towers adjacent to Sanphawut road, leading off from Sukhumvit-Bang Na
Read more396 constituency-based MPs initially verified tomorrow
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN ESTIMATED 396 out of a total 400 designate-MPs recently voted in constituency-based mode of the general election are anticipated to be initially verified by the Election Commission tomorrow (Feb.25). The 396 designate-MPs elected in constituency-based mode who will be initially verified by the polling agency tomorrow will be added
Read moreNewin-Thammanat talk over coalition govt setup denied
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Read morePeople’s suggests Pheu Thai put off censure motion for sake of charter changes
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PEOPLE’S, currently the largest opposition party, has informally advised that the Pheu Thai, the second largest, definitely postpone a censure motion against Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and his Bhumjaithai-led government until legislation on constitution amendment has supposedly passed its final reading at parliament next month. People’s leader Nattapong Ruengpanyawut
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Read moreThaksin only knew Ben Smith as ‘acquaintance’: Lawyer
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI boss-turned-inmate Thaksin Shinawatra today (Nov.6) categorically denied he had dealt in “business investment” with scammer suspect Benjamin Mauerberger, alias Ben Smith, since the former only knew the latter as an “acquaintance”, according to the inmate’s lawyer Winyat Chatmontree. The lawyer who today visited Thaksin at Klong
Read moreHun Sen hit with AI voice cloning attack – denies asking for donation
CAMBODIA’S Senate President Hun Sen posted a message on Facebook today (June 29) that ill-intentioned people had used AI voice impersonation technology to create a video clip wherein he asks for 300 baht TrueMoney donation to develop the Cambodian army for a battle against Thailand with this being fake and he never said so,
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 moreTangmo Nida’s mum to appeal after court dismisses case against 3 defendants
AFTER Nonthaburi Provincial Court dismissed the case against three of six defendants in the drowning of late actress Pataratida Patcharawirapong, or Tangmo Nida, in Chao Phraya river during a speedboat trip in February 2022 her mother said she is going to appeal, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (May 23). Mrs. Panida Siriyuttayothin, Tangmo Nida’s
Read moreYingluck tells Thaksin to kick out Bhumjaithai from Pheu Thai-led govt
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN as a rare phenomenon in power play, fugitive, former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has personally told her brother/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra to kick out the Bhumjaithai from the Pheu Thai-led coalition government in the face of unresolved, inter-party conflict. During a recent, closed-door
Read moreCrisis-hit Thai tourism staring down an abyss
LED by sharp drops in its two top source-markets, Thailand ended the January- March first quarter with 9.5 million arrivals, an anemic 1.91% increase over the 9.37 million in the first quarter of 2024. Most disturbing is the downward trend from a high of 3,709,102 arrivals in January to 3,119,445 in February and 2,720,457 in
Read moreTrio of coalition partners mutually compete for southern MP seat
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A TRIO OF COALITION partners are vying for a vacant MP seat of Nakhon Si Thammarat in a by-election scheduled for later this month. Regardless of political etiquette otherwise practically observed among coalition partners, the Bhumjaithai, the second largest coalition partner under de facto party boss Newin Chidchob, the Klatham,
Read moreElection Commission being pressed to suspend secretary-general
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ELECTION COMMISSION is being pressed to suspend its secretary-general Sawaeng Boonmee from officially performing, pending probe into last year’s senatorial rigging scandals about which he has reportedly done nothing as yet. A group of reserve senators plans to call on the Election Commission at the headquarters tomorrow (March 12)
Read morePolice panel votes to dismiss “Big Joke”
THE POLICE disciplinary committee unanimously voted to dismiss and not lay off former deputy national police chief Pol. Gen. Surachate Hakphan, nicknamed Big Joke, who faced charges of being linked to online gambling websites, Amarin TV said this evening (March 7). The meeting’s resolution will now be forwarded to National Police Chief Pol. Gen.
Read moreThailand deports 40 Uyghur men back to China after more than a decade in detention
By AP and published by Yahoo!News Taipei, Taiwan – A group of at least 40 Uyghur men detained in Thailand for more than a decade have been deported to China, Thai and Chinese officials said on Thursday (Feb. 27). The men made a public appeal last month to halt the deportation, saying they faced
Read moreMonk and layman die in fire at Thai temple in New York City
A THAI Buddhist monk and a layman died in a fire at Wat Usa Buddhayaram temple in New York City in the early hours of Wednesday morning (Feb. 12) (local time) with the blaze raging violently as it snowed in the bitter cold, Naewna newspaper said today (Feb. 14). Facebook user Mr. Thanat Inthisan who
Read moreNon-partisan contestants win most heads of provincial administration
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NON-PARTISAN CANDIDATES vying for head of provincial administration, also known in Thai as Nayok Or Bor Jor, have won most of the contested seats in yesterday’s (Feb.1) elections in 47 provinces in all regions of the country. Those non-partisan contestants were voted Nayok Or Bor Jor by constituents in most
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