PHEU THAI Party today (March 25) debunked a claim by an American citizen who ran the red light and killed two Thai students just as they were crossing the street near Miami Beach, Florida, on March 18 that he was “mentally ill” believing that this is an excuse to get a lenient sentence, Amarin
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11 Indian students hurt as shuttle bus hits power pole
A SHUTTLE bus carrying Indian students from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) slammed into a power pole and a tree on Phahonyothin road at 11.08 a.m. today (June 2) injuring 11 passengers, two critically, Amarin TV said. There were approximately 45 people on the bus, including the students and their tour
Read moreThailand’s Shia leader calls for probe of airport police after students allegedly ‘threatened’
THE Shia leader for Thailand today (Oct. 30) submitted a letter to Parliament President/House Speaker Wan Muhamad Noor Matha asking for an investigation of Special Branch police at Suvarnabhumi Airport who allegedly threatened students returning from Iran, TV Channel 7 said. Mr. Chaiyid Sulaiman Hussainy, Thailand’s Shia leader, said in the letter accepted by
Read more3 kidnapped Chinese students released, safe
THREE Chinese students who were tricked to deliver goods from Mae Sot town on the Thai-Myanmar border to Bangkok then kidnapped and taken to Myawaddy town just across the Moei river in Myanmar were released after part of the ransom was paid and rescued by police while walking in a forest, Amarin TV said
Read morePolice hunting for 3 Chinese students held for ransom in Myanmar
POLICE are working out ways to track down and bring back three Chinese students who were tricked into going to Myanmar and are now being held for ransom there, TV Channel 3’s 3PlusNews said this evening (Oct. 21). Pol. Lt. Gen. Thiti Sangsawang, commissioner of Metropolitan Police Bureau, ordered his deputy, Pol. Maj. Gen.
Read moreChaos as vocational students brawl at BTS station
THERE was panic at BTS Siam station during the rush hour this morning (Oct. 16) after vocational students started brawling on the platform with commuters running away for safety, Amarin TV said. Later Pol. Col. Akhom Chumphonrat, superintendent of Pathumwan police station, briefly said that his team is investigating the clash between the two
Read morePolice Hospital doctors suspected of unethically keeping ‘sickly’ Thaksin from jail
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DOCTORS AT POLICE HOSPITAL have been suspected of compromising their professional ethics to keep “sickly” de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra literally away from prison despite his one-year jail sentence. The so-called Students and People’s Network for Thailand Reform today (Sep.18) called on police chief Pol.Gen.Damrongsak Kittiprapat to promptly
Read moreTeachers slams free tablet scheme, want more teachers hired
JUST AS Education Minister Permpoon Chidchob moved to relaunch the Yingluck Shinawatra government’s project of distributing free tablet computers to all students and teachers nationwide a large number of teachers pointed out that this scheme was not that effective when carried out almost a decade ago and it would be better to use the
Read more‘Bad students’ urge Prayut to step down
A GROUP of schoolchildren who call themselves “bad students” yelled across to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha when he showed up at Siam Paragon shopping centre this afternoon (Dec. 2) to preside over the opening of an athletics conference urging him step down, Matichon newspaper said. The “bad student” activists, led by Ms. Anna Annanon, waited
Read moreFamilies argue after ninth grader badly slashes fellow student for ‘bullying’
THE families of two students with one having badly slashed the other for allegedly bullying him argued over compensation while the injured boy denied tormenting his classmate, Sanook.com said today (Sept. 7). The unnamed ninth grade student at a school in Pakham district of Buriram province used a grass hook which he brought from
Read moreForeigner kills two teenage girls in Songkhla crash
AN AUSTRALIAN man driving a sport utility vehicle on a Songkhla road hit a motorcycle on which three female teenage students were riding, killing two of them and seriously injuring the third girl, Amarin TV said yesterday (Sept. 2). This TV channel’s reporters went to the spot of the accident on Chalatat road in
Read more23 university student organisations reject Constitutional Court’s ruling
By Thai Newsroom Reporters TWENTY-THREE UNIVERSITY student organisations today (Nov. 11) issued a joint statement to repudiate the Constitutional Court’s ruling delivered yesterday that calls for monarchical reform were designed to “undermine democratic rule with the Monarch as head of state.” On behalf of the 23 university student organisations, the Student Council of Chulalongkorn University
Read moreStudent told to dye her hair black to a Pfizer jab
WITH students aged 12 to 18 years starting to get Pfizer shots in preparation for the new school term that begins next month one student’s run-in with her teachers over the colour of hair attracted a lot of comments from Thai netizens, TV Channel 7 said this evening (Oct. 7). The unidentified female student
Read moreDemonstration held to mark 7th anniversary of coup
A GROUP of demonstrators gathered around the Skywalk and the Bangkok Art and Culture Center at Pathumwan intersection this afternoon (May 22) to mark the seventh anniversary of the coup mounted by Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha, then army chief and current prime minister, Thai Rath newspaper said. Meanwhile a student union group held a symbolic performance
Read moreImmigration police deny barring foreign students from joining rallies
THE Immigration Bureau police today (March 10) denied having barred foreign students from attending political gatherings as announced by some educational institutes in Pathum Thani province, Thai Rath newspaper said. Pol. Col Phakphong Saiubol, deputy director of Immigration Division 1 and deputy spokesman of the Immigration Bureau, said no such order with a warning
Read more11 students hurt as van hits tree in Lampang
POLICE and rescuers rushed to help students who got injured after their van smashed into a tree in northern Lampang province at 6 a.m. this morning (Dec. 14) as they were returning to Chiang Mai city from an excursion to Nakhon Ratchasima province, Sanook.com reported. The accident occurred at Na Sang sub-district, Ko Kha district
Read moreSchool or prison? Students forced to wear prison-like clothes all day
DRAWING strong criticism on Thai social media today (Dec. 3) is a composite photograph of two students wearing light brown clothes similar to prison uniform with block letters printed at the back saying “adjusting behaviour”, Sanook.com reported this evening. The photo was shared on “Lanna Students” webpage, with this being a forum for Chiang Mai
Read moreNo uniform campaign gets underway at many schools
SOME students did come to school in casual clothes today (Dec. 1) the first day of the second semester as called upon by several groups to do so in order to claim dress freedom, Amarin TV reported this morning. Two key groups that had pushed this campaign are KKC student affiliate network and the “bad
Read moreGen. Prayut dismisses rumours of a coup d’etat
PRIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha today (Nov. 23) denied a coup d’etat is about to be mounted as rumoured pointing out that he has not announced one, Sanook.com reported. Asked by reporters about chances of a coup being launched as well as a martial law being declared to cope with the string of protests as widely
Read moreUniversity head denies getting student arrested without a warrant
SILPAKORN University President Mr. Chaichan Thavornvech denied having filed a complaint against his own student leading him being arrested without a warrant, Sanook.com reported today (Nov. 23, 2020). Chaicharn said in a Facebook post published at noon today that he did not contact the police during the four-day holiday and only at 7 a.m. this
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