POLICE have asked psychiatrists to assess the mental condition of a foreign couple over the death of a baby girl they abandoned under a rain tree in Udon Thani province on Wednesday (June 10) as they refused to cooperate with investigators, denied the charges and were chanting prayers loudly at the police station, TV
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Air Force Chief to sign for four more Gripen jets
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AIR FORCE CHIEF ACM Panpakdee Patanakul is scheduled to leave for Sweden later this month to close a purchase deal for another four Saab JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets, an air force source confirmed today (Aug.5). The four Gripen fighter jets reportedly constitute an initial batch of a dozen Swedish-made
Read moreThai air force denies reports of suspended sale of Swedish-made Gripen jets
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE THAI AIR FORCE today (Aug.1) categorically dismissed news reports that Sweden has suspended the sale of a dozen Saab JAS 39 Gripen jets to Thailand in the wake of an unprecedented use of the multirole combat aircraft during the Thai air force’s recent missions against Cambodian forces along the
Read moreThai-Swedish girl rescued from foreign dad who molested her
UDON THANI police rescued a 16-year-old Thai-Swedish girl from her foreign father after he had molested her several times with her mother revealing that he had raped her from the age of 13 till got pregnant and gave birth to this girl, Naewna newspaper said this morning (May 15). This northeastern province’s Deputy Governor
Read moreTwo Swedish men wanted on fraud charges arrested in Pattaya
TWO SWEDISH men wanted in their home country for allegedly running a call centre gang that scammed over 50 million baht were arrested in Pattaya for overstaying, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (Oct. 29). Upon being tipped off that Swedish men who allegedly ran a call centre gang were hiding in Bang Lamung district
Read morePM mum on Swedish lobby on air force’s fighter purchase plan
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin today (June 25) remained tightlipped over alleged lobbying on the part of a Swedish banker/industrialist to prompt the Thai air force to purchase a squadron of Swedish-built Gripen fighter jets. The prime minister told reporters at Government House that Marcus Wallenberg visited him yesterday but declined
Read morePutin lobs cryptic new threats at Finland, Sweden for Joining Nato
By US News & World Report and published by MSN News RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin lobbed new threats at Finland and Sweden as Nato prepares to consider their formal applications for membership, saying Russia did not necessarily view their joining the Cold War-era alliance as a direct threat but that it would have to
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