DTAC yesterday hailed the decision by CAT Telecom to approve the company’s long-delayed network upgrade for non-commercial 3G wireless broadband services.
“The approval will give DTAC the opportunity to finally offer our customers the experience of 3G,” said chief executive officer Tore Johnsen.
The board of the state telecom enterprise on Thursday made [...]
BoT chief looks for peaceful election
The general election, expected in the coming year, should be a turning point in restoring confidence in the economy, says the Bank of Thailand.
“It is expected that 2011 will be an election year. Politics will impact economic growth. If the country can move forward with a peaceful [...]
The US Drug Enforcement Administration has grown into a global intelligence organization whose reach extends far beyond international drug trafficking, The New York Times reported.
Citing documents from the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, the newspaper said the DEA’s operations had become so expansive the agency has had to fend off foreign politicians who [...]
An annual Christmas Day swimming race in London was called off after the water froze, while in Denmark, a midwife braved the freeze to ski to a
mother-to-be on a snowbound island.
For hundreds of passengers trapped at the main Paris and Brussels airports overnight because of the freezing weather however, the nightmare drew [...]
A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the western Pacific nation of Vanuatu on Sunday, triggering a small tsunami exactly six years after giant waves killed 220,000 people around the Indian Ocean.
The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the shallow quake generated a tsunami, but it cancelled a regional warning after the [...]
WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange said in an interview published Sunday he had signed deals for his autobiography worth more than one million pounds (1.2 million euros, 1.5 million dollars).
Assange told Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper that the money would help him defend himself against allegations of sexual assault made by two women [...]
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said in his “Confidence in Thailand with PM
Abhisit” weekly programme on NBT on Sunday morning that it is the authority of the court to decide whether or not to grant bail for the detained red-shirts.
“Whether or not to temporary release the detained leaders and supporters of the [...]
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva admitted on Sunday that former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is now residing in Dubai.
He was responding to a report that MPs of the opposition Puea Thai Party will travel to visit Thaksin in Dubai today.
Mr Abhisit said the authorities in Dubai have confirmed that they would not allow the ousted [...]
Five men have been arrested on charges of attempting to kidnap a Norwegian real estate businessman from a public song taew in central Pattaya, police said.
Svein Tore Holtekjoelen, 53, was travelling home when a group of five assailants stormed the vehicle and captured him. The suspects dragged him from the song [...]
PATTAYA VENDORS WARY AS POLICE SET TRAPS
Child pornography and other sex films have largely disappeared from
Pattaya’s Beach Road despite being widely available there only a week ago.
The development comes on the heels of a police crackdown on the material after its widespread availability on Beach Road was brought to the attention of [...]
