Yearly Archives: 2011
New govt urged to beef up funds for lecturers
BANGKOK, 20 July 2011 – The new government is encouraged to support more budgets including scholarships for lecturer quality development in order to...
Yingluck delays collecting MP endorsement document at EC, registration at Parliament
BANGKOK, July 20 -- Thailand's Pheu Thai Party prime minister-to-be Yingluck Shinawatra on Wednesday delayed her earlier plan to collect her Member of...
Yellow Shirts reject World Court ruling on Thai-Cambodian border dispute
BANGKOK, July 20 - Thailand's yellow-clad protest movement, the People' Alliance for Democracy (PAD), on Wednesday issued a statement opposing the ruling of...
ASEAN hails ICJ’s troop withdrawal verdict
BANGKOK, 20 July 2011 – ASEAN has expressed satisfaction with the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to have both Thai...
German court rules royal jet doesn’t belong to Thai government: Thai...
BANGKOK, July 20 -- A German court on Wednesday ruled that the impounded aircraft used by Thailand's Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn does not belong...
Bodies of Saturday’s five chopper crash victims successfully retrieved
BANGKOK, July 20 - Rescue operations coordinated by the Thai army, and the ministries of Agriculture and Cooperatives, and Natural Resources and Environment, successfully...
Gambling den busted by police
At 1am on July the 19th police received a report from a villager that a group of people were gambling at a house behind...
Unidentified foreigner takes to the trees
Shortly after midnight July the 19th police were contacted to aid a foreigner who was attempting to commit suicide at the Sea Gull village...
Police track down motorbike thieves
On July the 19th police exposed the faces of three thieves along with 8 stolen motorbikes and the tools they used to steal the...
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When Thailand expats stop watching Washington: Notes from Pattaya, Phuket and Chiang Mai
PATTAYA, Thailand - I did not begin with a theory. I began with conversations. They happened naturally over morning coffee in Pattaya, sunset drinks...
Young British man found dead in Bangkok hotel after nine days without contact with...
PATTAYA, Thailand – Thai police have confirmed the death of a 22-year-old British man who was found deceased in a hotel room in central...
Pattaya losing control after dark as Soi 6 incident fuels fresh debate
PATTAYA, Thailand – A recent incident on Soi 6, where an intoxicated foreign tourist allegedly attacked a municipal vehicle, has once again drawn attention...
Motorcycle and car collision leaves one woman injured on Sukhumvit Road in Pattaya
PATTAYA, Thailand – A Thai woman was injured after a motorcycle collided with a car in Central Pattaya on January 22, municipal officers confirmed.
The...
Massage shops caught operating without licenses in Pattaya-Naklua Soi 16
PATTAYA, Thailand – A late-night enforcement operation in Pattaya sent businesses scrambling to shut their doors after authorities uncovered illegal massage shops operating without...