Home to Expo 2012, South Korea’s coast of riches also offers plenty of attractions for tourists looking to unwind
Once a small and sleepy port city famous for its seafood and beaches, Yeosu in South Korea’s South Jeolla province blossomed during its two-year preparations for Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea, which kicked off last Saturday and continues [...]
Facebook makes its hotly anticipated stock market debut this week in a history-making move promising wealth for insiders and change for users of the online social network.
Hot interest in Facebook stock reportedly prompted the company to bump the opening price range to $34 to $38 for its shares, which would value the firm at between [...]
Internet security researchers warned that foreign policy and human rights websites are being booby-trapped by hackers in what appears to be cyber espionage.
As of Monday websites for Amnesty International Hong Kong, the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the US Center for Defense Information (CDI) remained rigged to slip “hostile” code onto visitors’ computers, according [...]
SPECIAL REPORT: Structural change lays ground for banned politicians to return
The ruling Pheu Thai Party’s plan to revamp its structure is a move to deal with the return to politics of the 111 former Thai Rak Thai executives after their political ban expires on May 30.
The restructuring, in which the country’s five regions will [...]
Pheu Thai MPs yesterday filed a complaint against Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra and three other people to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) over a controversial contract recently granted to the current operator of the Skytrain system.
The 30-year contract is worth about Bt190 billion. Also named in the complaint were Deputy Bangkok Governor Thirachon Manomaipiboon, [...]
Failure will be reported to PM, Yutthasak says
The government will use the handling of the southern insurgency as a criterion for assessing the performance of security-related ministries, says Defence Minister Yutthasak Sasiprapa.
The Defence Ministry will today hold a meeting to establish missions for each security ministry to carry out in tackling the southern insurgency. The [...]
After struggling for seven years with a foetid stink from a garbage disposal site, officers from the Chalong Krung police station in Lat Krabang district have at last been given a reprieve – an office far away from the dump.
The police officers did not just suffer from the foul odour, which drove many to seek [...]
A group of protesters rallied outside Government House yesterday to demand that the authorities urgently start assisting those affected by the recent factory explosion in Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate in Rayong province.
Sutthi Atchasai, the chief of the Stop Global Warming Association who led the gathering, called for a government-commissioned management of future chemical leaks [...]
Political rivals in Songkhla known to oppose red villages in area
The village pavilion of a new red-shirt village in Songkhla province was burnt down early yesterday, hours after its opening by red-shirt leaders and supporters in the South.
On Monday evening red-shirt leader Thida Tavornset Tojirakarn and supporters held an opening ceremony for a red-shirt village [...]
The first race weekend of the 2012 Formula Renault Northern European Cup kicked off at Hockenheim Circuit in Germany, around the 4574 meter long circuit on 21 April. The Thai racer, Sandy Stuvik sponsored by Singha Corporation, The Pizza Company, Dacon Inspection Services, RAAT and SAT had shown very good pace during the Friday official [...]
