By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PALANG PRACHARATH is again disintegrating due to intra-partisan conflict of interest since Palang Pracharath Secretary-General Thammanat Prompao will no longer be given a ministerial seat in an imminent Cabinet lineup. The third largest coalition partner would likely be split into two sides with one loyal to Palang Pracharath leader
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Thai headline inflation at year-high in May, back to central bank target range
By Reuters and published by CNA THAILAND’S headline inflation reached its highest in 13 months in May and returned to the central bank’s target range of 1 percent to 3 percent for the first time in a year, commerce ministry data showed today (June 7). The headline consumer price index (CPI) rose in May
Read moreBritish man badly bashed up after chatting up a girl
A BRITISH man was severely bashed up by two Thai youths in Chonburi province at dawn today (Sep. 3) after he chatted up a girl in a shop there, Amarin TV said. The unidentified British man ended up with a swollen head, a broken nose and three teeth knocked out. He is now under
Read moreDebt collectors attack hospitalised patient, steal his car
A MAN undergoing treatment at a hospital in Chonburi was attacked by four debt collectors who barged into his room and after roughing him up grabbed his car key and drove the vehicle away from the car park, Matichon newspaper said today (Dec. 2). Police arrested a suspect, Mr. Witsarut Permwattana, or Ball, 27,
Read moreAircraft debris washes up on Nakhon Si Thammarat beach
A MYSTERIOUS PIECE of plane wreckage washed up on Nakhon Si Thammarat province’s Pak Phanang beach with the code CCBU 07ZS visible at a few places, Sanook.com said today (Mar. 15) The curved metal sheet of a plane that reached the beach is 1.80 metres wide, 3.16 metres long, and weighs about 70-80 kilogrammes.
Read moreBashed up medical volunteer may countersue police
THE medical volunteer who was photographed being beaten up by Protection and Crowd Control Division police during Saturday’s protest at Democracy Monument and the City Shrine Pillar said at 7 p.m. this evening (Feb.15) that he will discuss with a lawyer about countersuing the police, Thai Rath newspaper said. Mr. Puraphon Wongcheak, 19, a member
Read moreIndian media report Chinese military build-up along the Himalayan border
THE border tensions between China and India have escalated once again, after hundreds of Chinese troops crossed into Indian territory. Soldiers of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) breached the Indian border at multiple locations in the northern Himalayan region of Ladakh, Legal Insurrection news website quoted Indian media as saying on Saturday, May 23,
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