WITH five Thai soldiers having lost a leg each after stepping on landmines along the Thai-Cambodian border from July 16 till today Aug. 14 former deputy prime minister Plodprasop Suraswadi has now launched a campaign to buy them from Khmer troops at 10,000 baht each, Amarin TV and TV Channel 7 said. In his
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Thaksin-donated, Chinese-made drones might put Thai army units at risk
By Thai Newsroom Reporters TEN CHINESE-MADE drones recently bought by de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra for the Thai army could potentially be detected and tracked by ground-based drone locators and jeopardise positions of the drone operators. The DJI drones donated by the court-suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s father to Thailand’s Second Army Area
Read moreAnother ranger loses leg after stepping on landmine
YET ANOTHER Thai ranger lost his left leg upon stepping on a landmine while patrolling near Chub Ta Mok base on the western side of the ancient Prasat Ta Muen Thom temple this morning (Aug. 12), Amarin TV said. The ranger, identified as Sgt. Maj. Theeraphon Phiakhanthi, who was within the Thai side of
Read moreLabour shortage at longan plants, orchards as over 300,000 Cambodians have left
WITH OVER 300,000 Cambodian migrant workers having returned to their homeland due to the five-day clashes along the border that ended on July 28 longan farmers plus owners of plants processing this fruit are facing a labour shortage and while Myanmar workers have been brought in work in their stead at these plants, it
Read moreThai-Cambodian talks moving in positive direction: PM
ACTING Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said this evening (Aug. 6) that there is an overall positive trend at the Thai-Cambodian General Border Committee (GBC) meeting in Malaysia which started on Monday with talks moving in the right direction, Amarin TV said. While refusing to divulge the details of the important negotiations with observers from
Read more50,000 Khmer migrant workers returning home from Thailand
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NO LESS THAN 50,000 Cambodian migrant workers were estimated to legally depart from Thailand to their home country via a checkpoint in eastern Thai border province since the last few days until today (Aug.6) following recent border clashes and due to sustained tensions between the two neighbouring countries, according to
Read moreThailand looking at suing Cambodia at an international court
THAILAND’S National Security Council is exploring avenues to file lawsuits against Cambodia at an international court for violence along the Thai-Cambodian border, Naewna newspaper said today (Aug. 6). Foreign Affairs Minister Maris Sangiampongsa said this morning that while the government is preparing to file civil and criminal lawsuits against Cambodia, he does not yet
Read moreKhmers have thousands of drones to hit Thai targets
By Thai Newsroom Reporters CAMBODIA HAS GOTTEN as many as 4,000 drones which could probably be used either in reconnaissance or attack missions against counterforce and countervalue targets in Thailand, according to a former senior government official. Those reconnaissance and attack drones supplied by China and currently at disposal of Cambodian forces might not
Read moreThaksin’s niece not a spy for Khmers: Senior govt official
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A NIECE OF DE FACTO Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra was definitely by no means a spy for Cambodia as bluntly accused on social media, said a senior government official today (Aug.4). Russ Chalichan, assistant to Thailand’s Foreign Affairs Minister Maris Sangiampongsa, categorically dismissed as groundless the allegations circulated online
Read moreThailand not withdrawing troops from border while hoping for good outcome at talks
THAILAND is not withdrawing troops from the border while hoping that the General Border Committee (GBC) meeting that started in Malaysia today, Aug.4, and will continue till Aug. 7 yields good results, Thai Rath newspaper said. Lt. Gen. Boonsin Phadklang, commander of the Second Army Region, said he did not yet know what was
Read moreLeicester City put up banners to tell the world Thailand did not start the clashes
LEICESTER CITY, owned by CEO of King Power Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, put up banners on the pitch and the scoreboard with the message #TruthFromThailand during their pre-season friendly match with Italian club ACF Fiorentina yesterday (Aug. 3) with this ending at 2-0 for the former, Naewna newspaper said today. This is the Thai-own English club’s
Read moreThai military denies using chemical weapons as claimed by Cambodia
THE THAI army flatly denied using chemical weapons in Cambodia as accused by the neighbouring country’s spokesperson and branded it as fake news without any factual basis, Naewna newspaper said. In a Facebook post the Thai army firmly denied the accusation by Lt. Gen. Maly Socheata, a spokesperson of the Cambodian Ministry of Defence,
Read morePM orders strict monitoring of Israel-Iran conflict and Thai-Cambodian border
PRIME MINISTER Paetongtarn Shinawatra today (June 17) ordered strict monitoring of the Israeli-Iranian conflict 24 hours a day and the Thai-Cambodian border tension on hourly basis with no Thais in either Iran or Israel having been injured in the ongoing aerial war so far, TV Channel 7 said. Mr. Jirayu Huangtrakul, spokesperson of the
Read moreKashmir crisis: India strikes Pakistan over tourist killings, Islamabad vows retaliation
By Agencies and published by CNA New Delhi – India and Pakistan exchanged heavy artillery fire along their contested frontier on Wednesday (May 7) after New Delhi launched deadly missile strikes on its arch rival, in the worst violence between the nuclear-armed neighbours in two decades. Islamabad said 31 civilians were killed by the
Read moreAnalysis: Risk of violence escalates in Myanmar’s civil war as junta flags elections
By Reuters and published by Yahoo!News FOUR years after seizing power in a dawn coup that ousted an elected civilian government, Myanmar’s embattled ruling generals are making their most concerted effort to gain legitimacy – by pushing to hold another election. In the last two months, the junta has outlined plans to neighbours for
Read moreThaksin denies Pheu Thai-Bhumjaithai conflict
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra today (Dec. 23) categorically denied that his party, core of the current coalition government, had developed a critical conflict with Bhumjaithai, the second largest coalition partner. The billionaire power player said he had had no problem to clear up with Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Interior
Read moreThammanat-led renegade MPs won’t be ousted from Palang Pracharath
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A CLIQUE OF 20 RENEGADE MPs headed by former Palang Pracharath secretary-general Thammanat Prompao will be by no means ousted as members of the second largest opposition party. Palang Pracharath secretary-general Paibul Nititawan confirmed today (Sep. 10) none of the 20 rebellious MPs under command of his predecessor will be
Read moreThaksin and Anutin getting together ‘not an attempt to end row over marijuana’
AFTER a photo of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, his daughter and party leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra singing a song together with Interior Minister-cum-Bhumjaithai leader Anutin Charnvirakul at Khao Yao circulated today (July 21), government whip Visuth Chainaroon denied this is an attempt to patch up differences over as relisting marijuana as a
Read moreDoubt cast on Thaksin’s hush-hush moves toward Myanmar conflict
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A HOUSE COMMITTEE TODAY (May 8) expressed doubt over clandestine moves reportedly made by de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict on parole Thaksin Shinawatra toward chronic, armed conflict inside Myanmar. House Committee on State Security, Border Affairs, National Strategies & Reforms Chair Rangsiman Rome questioned as to in what position Thaksin
Read moreThai tourism agencies get huge budget boost for post-Covid recovery
LED by a record 60% increase in the 2023/24 fiscal year budget of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), the Thai government is positioning the tourism industry as “the primary engine of economic growth” this year. However, those hopes are likely to be dashed in the event of a wider conflict in the Middle
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