Tag: Thailand
Thailand, China agree joint working committee on high speed rail development
BANGKOK, Feb 24 – Thailand and China have agreed to establish a joint working committee to implement a high speed rail project after...
ASEAN-India relations reach 20th anniversary
BANGKOK, 24 February 2012 - Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul has met with his Indian counterpart to discuss the Thailand-India and ASEAN-India relations, to strengthen...
Swedish investors confident in Thailand’s disaster prevention plans
BANGKOK, 24 February 2012 - Swedish investors have voiced their confidence in Thailand’s flood prevention plans after exchanging views on post-flood rehabilitation with Thai...
National Disaster Warning Center cautions motorists about heavy morning fog
BANGKOK, 24 February 2012 - The National Disaster Warning Center is asking motorists to be extra-careful while driving in the morning due to...
Tarutao Islands: Tranquil Marine Idyll
Tarutao Marine National Park is the largest marine preserve in both Thailand and Southeast Asia. Founded as Thailand’s second marine national park in 1972,...
Little Known Lanna: Lost in Time in Phrae
The small town of Phrae, which sits on the banks of the Yom River about 200 kilometres east of Thailand’s northern capital of Chiang...
2011 Border trades increased by 16% y-o-y
BANGKOK, 22 February 2012 - The Department of Foreign Trade (DFT) has revealed that the border trade value was nearly 900 billion baht...
PTT to expand into non-oil business in 2012
BANGKOK, 22 February 2012 - The country's oil and gas giant has announced a plan to expand its presence into the asphalt business...
Good literary work should need no pattern: 2011 Thai SEA Write...
Thailand's latest compilation of short stories that clinched the 2011 South East Asian Writers Awards (S.E.A. Write) for short story genre was written...
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Portuguese woman found at Phuket restaurant after nearly five years of visa overstay
PHUKET, Thailand – Immigration officers arrested a Portuguese woman found studying cooking at a restaurant in Phuket after biometric checks revealed she had overstayed...
Police raid Nakhon Si Thammarat bar, rescue three teenage trafficking victims
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, Thailand – Thailand’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division has arrested a 43-year-old bar owner in Nakhon Si Thammarat and rescued three teenage...
Gunfire erupts at Pattaya petrol station after drug suspect smashes office and flees police
PATTAYA, Thailand – A late-night drug sting erupted into gunfire at a petrol station on Sukhumvit Road in Pattaya after a pickup driver allegedly...
Russian man arrested in Pattaya after 568 days of visa overstay
PATTAYA, Thailand – A 32-year-old Russian man was arrested in Pattaya on October 14 for overstaying his permission to stay in Thailand by 568...
Getting up Pratumnak Hill easier and safer with Pattaya’s new roads, footpaths and lighting
PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya is continuing improvements along Second Road leading towards Pratumnak Hill, with new road surfaces, renovated footpaths and upgraded street lighting...