By Thai Newsroom Reporters THAILAND HAS OFFERED to provide a sum of 1.83 billion baht in funding for the planned improvement of R12 highway in middle Laos which could significantly facilitate land-based, cross-border trading among the Greater Mekong Subregion countries. Deputy government spokesperson Kenika Oonjit confirmed today (Apr. 18) the Thai government has resolved
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Prawit pays personal visit to Lao PM in Vientiane
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PALANG PRACHARATH LEADER Prawit Wongsuwan paid a personal visit to Laos’ Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone in Vientiane today (Mar 3). The Palang Pracharath leader said he visited the Lao prime minister entirely on a personal basis and did by no means represent the Pheu Thai-led government. Neither did he act
Read moreNorthern fruits to be exported to southwestern China via Lao railway
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A BORDER PASS IN UTTARADIT is planned to be upgraded for export of a variety of fruits from northern Thailand to southwestern China via a Lao railway, a senior official confirmed today (Dec.20). The National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity & Food Standards’ deputy secretary-general Preeyanut Thipayawat said Pudu border pass
Read moreTropical Storm Koinu to hit Thailand during Oct. 9-11
THE CEO of a public-listed engineering company issued a warning that a tropical depression hanging over the Pacific has turned into Tropical Storm Koinu and as it moves westwards will hit Thailand during Oct. 9-11, Matichon newspaper said. Mr. Chawalit Chandrarat, CEO of Team Consulting Engineering and Management Plc, or Team Group, said Koinu
Read moreAs Khanun forms, China warns of third typhoon in three weeks
By Reuters – published by CNA and Thai Newsroom Beijing – Chinese forecasters on Saturday (July 29) warned of the approach of Tropical Storm Khanun, which is expected to rapidly gain typhoon strength and strike China’s densely populated coast sometime next week. Khanun, now more than 1,000km east of the Philippine archipelago in the
Read moreFive Thai tourists die in Laos road crash
FIVE THAI tourists returning to Chiang Rai after a holiday in Laos and China’s Yunnan province died yesterday (July 27) after an 18-wheel trailer truck slammed into their van on R3A road just a hundred metres from the border, Naewna newspaper said today. Upon being contacted by the Laotian Red Cross, Siam Ruamjai Foundation
Read moreTyphoon Noru barrels towards Vietnam, hitting Thailand on Thursday
By Reuters, published by CNA, and Thai Newsroom VIETNAM closed airports, announced curfews and urged thousands more people to evacuate today (Sept. 27) as intensifying Typhoon Noru barrelled towards the country, while the Thai Meteorological Department said it will weaken into a tropical storm when it slams Thailand on Thursday (Sept. 29). Hundreds of flights
Read moreThai netizens blast post on selling kidney to get mobile phone
THAI social media lambasted a Facebook post that emerging from Laos showing three persons with wounds on the their abdomen holding up a mobile phone with the caption saying “Agreed for iPhone14” which they interpreted as meaning selling their kidney to get this newly-released cell phone, TV Channel 7 and Matichon newspaper said today
Read more3 drug runners arrested on Mekong river bank
ACTING on a tip-off Nong Khai police arrested three drug traffickers moments after they had collected sacks packed with 400,000 tablets of methamphetamine, worth 12 million baht, that a boat from Laos had dropped off on the Thai bank of Mekong river, Matichon newspaper said this evening (Sept. 8). Pol. Maj. Gen. Puttipong Musikul,
Read moreNew type of teddy bear aphrodisiacal ecstasy pills seized at border
A PARAMILITARY unit together with border anti-narcotics officers seized a large amount of a new type of ecstasy pill cutely shaped like a teddy bear but having aphrodisiacal properties as well as some strong sleeping tablets on the Thai bank of Mekong river in Nakhon Phanom province last night (July 16), Sanook.com said today. Col.
Read moreLast Irrawaddy dolphin dies in waters between Cambodia and Laos
By Laotian Times THE last freshwater Irrawaddy dolphin living on a section of the Mekong River bordering northeastern Cambodia and Laos has died, reportedly as a result of becoming entangled in a fishing net, Laotian Times said The dolphin was found dead on Tuesday on a riverbank in Stung Treng province, near the border with
Read moreThailand arrests leader of Lao democracy group, deportation likely
A THAI researcher for Human Rights Watch tweeted today (Jan. 31) that Mr. Khukham Kaewmaniwong, the leader of the Free Lao pro-democracy group and who has UNHCR refugee status was arrested in Bangkok on Saturday Jan. 29 with the Thai authorities preparing to deport him back to Laos, Matichon newspaper said. Mr. Sunai Phasuk, the
Read moreDelta Plus Covid variant spreading in Lao capital
By Laotian Times and Sanook.com THE Lao Ministry of Health has confirmed that the Covid-19 variant spreading through the capital Vientiane is the Delta Plus variant, Laotian Times said today (Sept. 20). According to health officials, the Delta Plus variant is highly transmissible, more so than the Delta variant from which it mutated. Delta
Read moreThai netizens keen on going to Laos to get Pfizer jab
AS news spread in Thai social media that Laos has announced that foreigners with a work visa may get the much sought after Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine many have said they are keen on crossing the border to get this jab rather than what is currently available but in short supply in Thailand, Sanook.com said this
Read moreTropical storm Noul to lash Thailand from Friday
TORRENTIAL rain is expected across most parts of the country after category 3 tropical storm Noul makes a landfall in middle of Vietnam and then moves to Thailand’s northeast during September 18-20, Thai Meteorological Department warned this morning (September 16, 2020). At the same time the southwesterly monsoon across the Andaman Sea, Thailand and Gulf
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