The Thai government has issued a warning to the public about possible attacks on politically relevant locations in September. Acting Government Spokesperson Panitan Wattanayagorn said of yesterday’s M-79 grenade attack at the National Broadcasting Television station in Bangkok that the security situation is being closely monitored by security authorities. However, Panitan commented that if the grenade was fired from an [...]

BANGKOK, 31 August 2010 (NNT) – The military will try to make understanding with people regarding frequent gathering and forums of discussion organized by the anti-government United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) or red-shirt group. Permanent Secretary for Defense, General Apichart Penkitti admitted that it would be difficult for the police to take action against the UDD since the [...]

(NECN/MCOT) – Many areas of the northern region were heavily inundated on Sunday due to flash floods. Chiang Mai, Uttaradit, Nan, and Phichit were among the northern provinces suffering from severe flooding, which forced evacuation of local residents in the affected areas. Local authorities closed an inner city area of Chiang Mai to traffic due to severe flooding, which led [...]

Thailand says it will resume diplomatic ties with Cambodia after Phnom Penh announced the resignation of ousted Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra as its economic advisor. The two countries recalled their ambassadors in November 2009 amid a row over the controversial appointment. The Thai military removed Mr Thaksin in a coup in 2006, and he has since been jailed in absentia [...]

SURIN, Aug 20 – Three Thai villagers in Thailand’s northeastern border province of Surin were arrested by Cambodian authorities on charge of spying while they were hunting and collecting forest products along the border. Families of two detainees, Sanong Wongchareon and Ling Pongphet, said the duo and another villager, Lan Sapsri, were arrested by Cambodian border patrol police in Kanna [...]

BANGKOK, Aug 18 – Almost 1.5 million foreign workers currently live in Thailand, most of whom are not legally registered with the authorities. Speaking at a national seminar on developing public health services for foreign workers, Deputy Permanent-Secretary of Public Health, Dr Siriwat Tiptaradol, said that according to statistics from the Ministry of Labour as of January 19, there were [...]

Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Anupong Paochinda Tuesday expressed confidence that the new Southern Border Province Administrative Centre will contribute to the efforts of the authorities to end violence in the deep South. The Army chief welcomed the House’s passage of the Southern Border Province Administrative Centre Bill last week. The bill will remove he agency from the jurisdiction of the Interior [...]

BANGKOK—Criticism over Thailand’s efforts to curb political debate online is mounting, as the government restricts thousands of websites following deadly protest clashes earlier this year. Thai authorities say they have blocked at least 40,000 Web pages this year, according to the government’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, which monitors the Internet. Free-speech activists say authorities are blocking at least [...]

August 15, 2010 – Joran van der Sloot has had run-ins with the law in four countries: Peru where he was charged with the brutal murder of young Peruvian woman last May; Aruba where he is suspected of kidnapping a U.S. teen from Aruba; U.S. where he was charged with extortion in the missing U.S. teen’s case; and now in [...]

Pathumthani police and doctors said they found the body of a taxi driver on a remote road and believe that he was murdered after being robbed. Authorities explained that the murder victim, 51-year-old Chakkrit Chan-on, sustained a four-centimeter-long wound under his chin. Police found evidence of a struggle and blood stains inside the taxi. They added that the man was [...]