Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano spewed red-hot rock and ash Tuesday as officials upgraded their eruption warning level to orange and some at-risk communities began evacuations.
The 5,029-meter (16,500-foot) volcano in the country’s central Andes, about 135 kilometers (84 miles) south of the capital Quito, has been active since 1999 but its thermal activity [...]
Facebook has agreed to tighten its privacy policies and submit to external audits in order to settle charges that it abused users’ personal data, US authorities said.
In a deal with the Federal Trade Commission, the social networking giant promised to honor users’ privacy preferences and to stop making claims about the [...]
Michael Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray was back in court Tuesday to be sentenced over the King of Pop’s 2009 death in 2009, facing up to four years behind bars.
Members of Jackson’s family including siblings La Toya, Jermaine and Randy, were in the Los Angeles courtroom to hear judge Michael Pastor pass [...]
Case raises legal tangle for Constitution Court
The Election Commission has disqualified Jatuporn Prompan as a Pheu Thai Party list MP on the grounds he failed to vote in the July 3 general election.
Acting EC secretary-general Somchart Jesrichai yesterday said the EC voted 4 to 1 to terminate Mr Jatuporn’s status an an MP.
The [...]
Surachai Danwattananusorn, who has been in jail for nine months facing three charges of lese majeste, says the best way to deal with similar lawsuits is to confess and hope for a royal pardon.
In an interview with the Bangkok Post, the 69-year-old political activist and former communist sympathiser, said those who denied [...]
Sukhumbhand says locals must obey law
Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra has refused to negotiate with Pathum Thani residents after they raised the Khlong Phraya Suren sluice gate to 1.5 metres again without permission.
MR Sukhumbhand yesterday said he would negotiate only after the sluice gate was lowered back to 1m. He stressed that the [...]
The Santiprachatham intellectual network has renewed its long-term call for the repeal of lese majeste aspects of the Criminal Procedure Code and the Computer Crimes Act.
The Santiprachatham Network, comprising well-known academics and social activists within and outside Thailand, has urged the Thai judiciary to be genuinely concerned about the principles of [...]
Landmarks are a profitable business. It has taken City Hall many years to turn the Chutachak Weekend Market into one of Bangkok’s prime attractions and now the State Railway of Thailand, which owns the land, wants to take it over.
The squabble between the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and the State Railway [...]
The Criminal Court on Tuesday imposed a fine of 15 million baht on a daughter of Somchai Khunplome, better known as Kamnan Poh, a former influential figure in Chon Buri, after her father failed to show up to hear the Supreme Court’s verdict on a murder case in which he is [...]
Keith Bolter, chairman of the 250-year-old Riddlesworth Hall Preparatory School where the Princess of Wales studied, welcomed a co-investment from The Regent’s School Thailand by Dr.Virachai Techavijit, chairman, and Thiphavan Techavijit, vice chairman. The co-investment has led to educational development, academic cooperation and exchange to benefit students.
Pictured from left to right are Kwanshanok Techavijit, executive [...]
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