BANGKOK – Thailand announced plans Friday to mobilise a 18,000-strong security force at a meeting of Southeast Asian leaders this month to prevent anti-government protests. The summit of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and six dialogue partners – China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand – takes place in the […]
Frédéric Mitterrand, France’s culture minister, was under pressure to resign after it emerged that he had admitted to paying “young boys” for sexual acts while on holiday in Thailand. The revelations in his 2005 autobiography “The Bad Life” have come back to haunt Mr Mitterrand after he emerged as one of the most vociferous defenders […]
An earthquake around the Western Sumatra in Indonesia, which registered 7.8 on the Richter Scale, prompted a brief tsunami warning throughout Thailand yesterday. Tremors were reported in tall buildings in Bangkok at 5pm and there were fears that it may affect Phuket. However at 7.10pm the Thai Meteorological Department released an update cancelling the tsunami […]
BANGKOK — Initial reports into how a Thai train derailed, killing several people and injuring almost 90 near a coastal resort, suggest the driver may have fallen asleep, the state railway said Tuesday. The overnight passenger train, travelling from southern Trang province to Bangkok, came off the tracks in heavy rain 13 kilometres (eight miles) […]
The UK is leading the pack at this year’s International Emmy awards with nine nominations, including best drama for Spooks. Julie Walters is up for best actress for A Short Stay In Switzerland, as a terminally ill woman who ends her own life in a Zurich clinic. The script for the one-off BBC drama was […]
Four million sandbags have been prepared as temporary embankment walls to cope with coming floods in Bangkok at the peak of this month’s wet season, a deputy Bangkok governor said yesterday. The sandbags will be utilised to prevent flooding at 15 locations most prone to flash foods, said Phornthep Techapaiboon. Flood drainage operations and the […]
CHAIYAPHUM, Oct 5 (TNA) – Flooding in several northern and northeastern provinces, Chaiyaphum, Lampang and Si Sa Ket, remained critical Monday, but the water level in the Chao Phraya River in central Thailand is not worrisome, according to government sources. In the northeastern province of Chaiyaphum, heavy rain has triggered a third round of flash […]
A train bounding for Bangkok from Trang derailed in Prachuab Khiri Khan on Monday morning, killing at least seven passengers and injuring many others. The accident happened at about 4.45am at Khao Tao station in the province’s Hua Hin district. A Nation reporter at the scene said that ten of 15 compartments derailed. The train […]
