Thai Deputy Commerce Minister Alongkorn Ponlaboot and his team earlier on Monday crossed the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Tak province to meet Myanmar officials and to discuss the ongoing Mae Sot-Myawaddy border closure.
Mr Alongkorn and relevant Thai officials met with high-ranking officials from the Myanmar capital of Naypyidaw, Aung Thein, the Myanmar ambassador to Thailand [...]
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If Thais refrained from drinking alcohol for one day, the country could save Bt540 million, Deputy Public Health Minister Pansiri Kulnartsiri said yesterday.
If people kicked their boozing habit during the three months of Buddhist Lent, they would be healthier physically and mentally, would be left with enough money to splurge and save, and would enjoy [...]
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Ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has marked his 61st birthday with tweets calling for peace, one day after a bomb went off in central Bangkok leaving one person dead and 10 injured.”I am 61 today,” Thaksin tweeted from an undisclosed location yesterday, thanking his supporters for wishing him a happy birthday.
“I want to see good [...]
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Thailand’s tourism industry should pick up in the second half of 2010 if ‘no negative factors occur’ to erode tourist confidence, according to a senior official of the Bank of Thailand (BoT).
BoT Assistant Governor Paiboon Kittisrikangwan said the country’s tourism industry would return to normal late this year but the number of visitors in 2010 [...]
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Buddhists across the country – and even tourists in hot holiday destinations – turned out yesterday to make merit to mark the Asalaha Bucha Day.
His Majesty the King had Phitsanulok deputy governor Yongyot Mekarun present a Lent candle to revered Buddha image Luang Pho Buddha Chinnaraj – at Wat Prasrirattanamahadhat Vorramahavihan – on his behalf [...]
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The terrifying bomb blast on Ratchadamri Road on Sunday, which killed one person and injured 10, has shattered hopes for lifting the emergency decree in the capital.
The government is facing growing calls from human rights activists, the opposition Puea Thai Party and the tourism sector to lift the decree, which has severely damaged the country’s [...]
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An independent reporter on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and other 12 persons for attempted murder and mayhem in the army’s security operation to retake the anti-government Red Shirt rally site at Khok Wua intersection on April 10.
Bodin Watcharobol, who described himself as an independent reporter, asked Udom Prongfa, personal [...]
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Information and Communications Technology Minister Chuti Krairiksh yesterday denied a rumour that attempts were being made to delay publication of the 3G-spectrum licensing plan in the Royal Gazette.
He said that even Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajivasupported the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC)’s plan to go ahead and grant the licences. Abhisit had also urged the ICT and [...]
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Thailand is in a good position to attract rebounding global foreign direct investments, thanks to the country’s strong economic recovery, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva says.
Mr Abhisit on Thursday told the launch of the World Investment Report 2010 prepared by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) that Thailand is among Asian countries whose [...]
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Representing Thailand’s capital and receiving an award naming the Thai capital by Travel + Leisure magazine as the World’s Best City 2010 in a survey conducted among its readers, Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra is the highest profile ambassador for normality to have hit the Big Apple since the Big Mango’s days of blazes and bombs [...]
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