By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES today (Jan.18) spent a record short period of time for a regular meeting due to the usual lack of a quorum. Deputy House Speaker Suchart Tancharoen was obliged to adjourn today’s House meeting due to the repeated lack of a quorum after it had only proceeded
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Prayut tight-lipped amidst latest hearsay over House dissolution
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PRAYUT Chan-o-cha has today (Oct. 31) stopped short of either confirming or denying fresh hearsay that he might probably dissolve the House of Representatives in late December. Prayut declined to say anything about the latest rumours having originated at Government House that he might probably dissolve the House
Read moreBank coughs up 2.2m baht for seizing wrong house
GOVERNMENT Savings Bank yesterday (Oct. 4) agreed to pay 2.2 million baht compensation to the owners of a house their contractor had wrongfully seized and renovated plus put a for sale sign upfront and in doing so destroying many objects of sentimental value, Sanook.com said. Mr. Ronnarong Kaewpetch, chairman of the Network to Reclaim
Read moreBank explains seizing wrong house, holding talks today
GOVERNMENT Savings Bank last evening (Oct. 3) clarified the seizing of a wrong house in Pathum Thani on Sept.5 pointing out that it had apologised to the owners and had renovated it for resale prior to the mistake being discovered, Sanook.com said. The bank said it had purchased house number 99/44 located in a housing
Read moreBank mum on 2m baht claim for seizing the wrong house
AN UNNAMED bank has so far not paid any compensation to the owner of a house in Pathum Thani which they seized by error on Sept. 5 when their contractor removed all the belongings, locked the gate with a padlock and put a for sale sign on it, Sanook.com said today (Oct. 3). Mr.
Read moreUS House Speaker Pelosi arrives in Taiwan, defying Beijing
By Agencies and published by CNA Taipei – US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday (Aug. 2) as part of an ongoing Asia tour. It is the highest-profile visit by a US official to the island in 25 years. Images showed the 82-year-old lawmaker, who flew in on a US military aircraft
Read morePublishing house editor arrested on charges of disclosing national secrets
A TEAM of Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) police showed up with an arrest warrant to apprehend the Editor-in-Chief of Fah Diew Kan Publishing House Mr. Thanapol Iewsakul on the charges of disclosing documents and other material related to national security and violating the Computer Crime Act this afternoon (June 29), Matichon newspaper said.
Read moreChadchart: Luxury house in Seattle purchased with inherited asset
BANGKOK GOVERNOR Chadchart Sittipunt explained today (June 15) that the luxury house in Seattle, USA, belongs to his son, Mr. Saenpiti Sittipunt, and was purchased with proceeds from the sale of one-rai land on Rama 4 road that his mother had given him, Amarin TV said. As questions are being raised about two-storey four-bedroom,
Read moreNightmare On Elm Street ‘haunted house’ sold for nearly US$3 million
By CNN and published by Channel NewsAsia HORROR fans might recognise this charming Los Angeles home that was just sold as being from the 1984 classic, A Nightmare On Elm Street. The three-bedroom and 4.5-bathroom Dutch Colonial house was where vengeful spirit of a serial killer, Freddy Krueger (played by Robert Englund), tried to kill
Read moreGovt leaders visiting flooded zones ‘not a sign of House dissolution’
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE OFFICIAL VISITS of government leaders to flood-hit provinces are ”irrelevant” to possibilities of a dissolution of the House of Representatives which may otherwise warrant a general election in near future, said a government MP today (Oct. 6). Palang Pracharath MP Phai Lick dismissed speculation that the House dissolution might
Read moreChaos at Govt House after official catches Covid
OFFICIALS at Government House panicked today (May 27) after finding out that a card exchange staff member has contracted coronavirus and was working last Tuesday when a Cabinet meeting was held, Sanook.com said. Reporters at Government House said Covid control measures were relaxed here recently allowing those among them who had been vaccinated to
Read moreWisanu warns of House dissolution if emergency loan not approved
DEPUTY Prime Minister Wisanu Krua-ngam today (May 27) said the dissolution of the House of Representatives is a viable option if the additional 500 billion baht loan to tackle the spread of Covid-19 and solve economic and social issues is not approved by majority of the MPs, Sanook.com said this afternoon. In answering reporters’ questions
Read moreBurnt and collapsed house’s papers in order
THE owners of the three-storey house that collapsed while ablaze over the weekend had correctly obtained permits to both construction and make additional modification after completion, Sanook.com quoted Ejan as saying today (April 5) Mr Narong Rakkid, acting head of Thawi Wattana district’s Public Works and Town & Country Planning Office, said the owners had
Read more4 volunteers, one resident dead in collapse of fire-gutted house
FOUR Disaster Prevention and Mitigation volunteers and one resident died in the collapse of the fire-hit house in Soi Anyamanee at Bangkok’s Thawi Wattana district early this morning (April 3) with the body of one of the volunteers having been brought out and work underway to rescue the other four bodies, Thai Rath newspaper
Read morePolice: Free Youth protesters heading for PM’s house this afternoon
METROPOLITAN Police has arranged 12 companies of policemen to deal with a march from the Victory Monument to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s residence at the 1st Infantry Regiment compound at 3 p.m. today (Feb. 28), INN News and Sanook.com said. Pol. Maj. Gen. Piya Tawichai, deputy chief and spokesman of Metropolitan Police, said it had
Read moreSQUEEZY LIVING: London’s thinnest house is on sale for £950k
By Kiro Evans, The Sun SPACE is at a premium at London’s thinnest house, on the market for £950,000. Just 1.6m at its narrowest, the five-floor property has a kitchen and dining area, reception area, bathroom and two bedrooms. Estate agent David Myers said the former Victorian hat shop in Shepherd’s Bush would appeal
Read moreMan penniless after mobile phone fire guts house
A MAN in Trat province plunged into financial ruin after a mobile phone left charging by his grandchildren exploded and triggered a fire that completely gutted his two-storey wooden house, Amarin TV reported this afternoon (Jan. 14). Pol. Lt. Kasipat Jaroonroj, duty officer at Laem Ngop station, was alerted to the fire at Mr. Thawin
Read moreProtest guards help farmers to sell shrimp next to Govt House
THE We Volunteer protest guards, or WeVo, brought shrimp farmers from Nakhon Pathom province to sell over a tonne of fresh white shrimp at the Government House’s Gate One today (Dec. 26) so as to help them after the main shrimp market in Samut Sakhon province was shut recently with the new outbreak of Covid-19
Read moreSix test positive for Covid-19 at Govt House, confirmation awaited
WITH the Government House and the Prime Minister’s Secretariat also being vigilant amid the new outbreak of coronavirus, 350 out of the total 700 civil servants and state employees working there were tested for the deadly disease today (Dec. 25) and six of them got a positive result, INN News and Sanook.com reported. Chulalongkorn Hospital
Read moreGen. Prayut easily survives legal challenge
THE Constitutional Court ruled that there is no conflict interest in Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha residing at a house in an army camp even through he stepped down as army commander six years ago nor is it unethical for him to do so therefore he need not step down from premiership, Thai
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