Thai team to oppose any Unesco call to visit site
Thailand’s delegates to the World Heritage Committee (WHC) meeting in June will oppose any discussion on the Preah Vihear temple, the government says.
Environment Minister Preecha Rengsomboonsuk said he will ask the cabinet to endorse this stance next week.
Although Cambodia has already listed the temple as a [...]
Economic damage could reach B10bn
Business leaders yesterday demanded compensation from authorities for firms affected by Tuesday’s massive power outage, while the Energy Ministry ordered a review of the emergency decision-making process.
Tanit Sorat, a vice-chairman of the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI), called on relevant agencies to determine the cause of the outage quickly, saying clear [...]
The Metropolitan Police Bureau on Wednesday released photographs of two men suspected of setting fire to the CentralWorld department store on May 19, 2010, and have obtained pictures of six others they believe were involved in the destruction that day.
The pictures were shown to the press by Kamronwit Thoopkrachang, the metropolitan police chief, after a [...]
Parliament welcomed a surprise visitor yesterday _ a two-metre-long monitor lizard that made its home in an air duct.
Officials were alerted to the reptile’s presence by a member of the press who spotted it through a metal grille in the ceiling. The animal had sought refuge in the darkness of the ducts.
Security staff tried to [...]
The energy minister has reasons to upset about the southern power outage, as no one at the electricity supplying agencies made the decision to save the region.
Energy Minister Pongsak Raktapongpaisal on Wednesday ordered the electricity agencies and the regulator to come up with a better chain of command in the wake of the blanket blackout [...]
A total of 211 million parasitoid wasps will be released nationwide to fight an insect pest that has destroyed large areas of coconut plantations throughout the country, the Agricultural Extension Department announced.
Department director-general Panpimon Chunyanuwat said the black-headed caterpillar, known scientifically as Opisina arenosella Walker, is a persistent pest in Thailand, damaging coconut crops and creating problems [...]
Thaksin backs amnesty for rank and file UDD
Ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra said the government’s amnesty efforts must focus on absolving red shirts facing legal action in connection with the 2010 political violence rather than protest leaders or even himself.
It would not matter if an amnesty bill exonerating political offenders was passed into law that did [...]
CHIANG MAI As heads of state gathered yesterday to attend a summit on water management, grassroot groups held a parallel forum to criticise the failures in water management projects by governments around the world.
The dignitaries were present for the second Asia-Pacific Water Summit which is in its seventh day.
Grassroot groups blasted the summit for failing [...]
CHIANG MAI : Thailand has offered to convene a meeting with Laos and China on a high-speed train project linking the three countries, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Sunday.
The offer, tabled in talks between the Thai and Lao cabinets yesterday, underlines Thailand’s concern about a delay to the project on the Lao side.
Ms Yingluck said [...]
Somchai: Large spread drove baht strength
The Finance Ministry has blamed local commercial banks’ offshore borrowing at low interest rates to be lent locally as a factor accelerating the baht’s strength.
Somchai Sujjapongse, director-general of the Fiscal Policy Office (FPO), said capital inflows in the first three months of this year came from four sources, and the [...]
