Phnom Penh/Bangkok – Cambodia and Thailand traded artillery and gunfire Friday at their northern border as Cambodia said more than 100 Thai artillery shells had landed in a civilian area in its territory. The Bangkok Post newspaper reported ‘two or three’ Thai soldiers had been wounded, citing a military source. Cambodian government spokesman Phay Siphan […]
Thai and Cambodian troop patrols clashed on Friday afternoon on the border near the disputed 4.6 square kilometre area near Preah Vihear, an informed military source said. Thais hurt, border fighting continues Two or three Thai soldiers were wounded in fighting with Cambodian troops on Friday afternoon near the 4.6 square kilometre area under dispute […]
Words of wisdom have it that you can never discard the possibility of a military coup in Thailand. So is Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva safe? The current coup rumours were based on what was perceived by some as a political impasse. According to the “deadlock” school of thought, Abhisit, because of his disastrous handling of […]
Narcotics Suppression officers have arrested seven suspected drug traffickers in separate busts this week, seizing a combined eight kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, or “ice”, and 100,000 amphetamine pills. The seven include two Malaysian nationals, two Hmong, a Burmese, a Nigerian and a Cambodian, NSB chief Atithep Panjamanond said yesterday. Bangkok Post
CHIANG MAI, Thailand — If bathroom graffiti is any measure of a go-go bar’s depravity, then the “Can Do” bar is rather chaste. Girl-power slogans are scrawled on the walls in pink magic marker. Above the toilet, the blue-ink scribble gets unusually political for a go-go bar: “Vote no – crazy constitution in Burma!” In […]
Key member arrested over airport seizures A key member of the People’s Alliance for Democracy has been arrested on outstanding charges stemming from the movement’s seizure in 2008 of Bangkok’s two commercial airports. The arrest last night comes as the PAD announced it is planning a major rally on Saturday to try to force the […]
BANGKOK, 2 February 2011 (NNT) – The number of patients infected with influenza A (H1N1) has risen to 470 people, with two fatalities, in January 2011 alone, according to the Department of Disease Control (DDC), the Ministry of Public Health. DDC Director-General MD Manit Teeratantikanont stated that although the H1N1 spread situation in the country […]
BANGKOK, 3 February 2011 (NNT)-The UDD or Red Shirt has launched a handbook on anti-coup d’etat with an aim to give their members a crash course on how to respond to the military coup. Acting Red Shirt Leader Thida Thawornsate has said that Thailand would not be any different than Myanmar if the government was […]
