By Out-crowd LIKE IT OR NOT, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan is largely expected to take the helm of the ruling Palang Pracharath Party once and for all. His end goal – the premiership. Despite his poor health and negative image involving his ”borrowed” luxury watches, the deputy premier is already looking far beyond the
Author: TNR Staff
50 ethnic youngsters get Thai ID cards in Chiang Rai
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FIFTY YOUNG ETHNIC villagers in Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai province have been naturalized and given ID cards as Thai nationals. Chief district officer of Mae Sai Prasong Onla confirmed today (June 13) all the 50 youngsters were born in Thai territory to parents of varied ethnic groups, most of
Read moreGunman kills three at Radio Thailand station
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A LONE GUNMAN killed three of his own colleagues at a Radio Thailand station in Phitsanulok province today (27.5.2020), police said. The gunman, identified as Wim Sonsud, armed himself with two handguns and fired gunshots at his unsuspecting victims in the premises of the radio station run by the Public Relations
Read moreNon-Thai students appeal for free lunch, milk
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A GROUP OF NON-THAI students today (26.5.2020) gathered at the provincial hall of Chiang Mai asking for free lunch and milk for themselves and about 80,000 others throughout Thailand. Led by several civil networks, the non-Thai students who have desperately intended to be naturalized as Thais peacefully held up placards calling
Read moreCambodians nabbed sneaking into Thailand
By Thai Newsroom Reporters TWO DOZENS OF Khmers were arrested on illegal entry charges after they sneaked across the border into Thai territory today (21.5.2020), police said. One group of 12 Cambodians, seven females and five males, was arrested by the police in Ta Phraya district of Sa Kaeo province while the other group of
Read moreNews of Thai newborns protected with visors spreading like wildfire
TAKING the world by storm is a report of a Bangkok hospital putting plastic face shields to protect newborn babies from coronavirus, PostToday reported this morning (12.4.2020). An American who read the report and saw the photos said: “It is interesting to see that communities in Asia have these devices. As for us, we must
Read moreAmerican health-care workers told to keep mum as another doctor dies
EVEN as the number of coronavirus patients jumped to 872,912 globally today (1.4.2020) with 43,271 having succumbed to this disease and 184,588 recovered, many doctors have died battling this pandemic while American are health-care workers are being pressured to keep silent about their working conditions. The grim tally in US today, 188,592 cases with an
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