British pensioners in Thailand have started a murder fund after a court released a Thai wife who allegedly commissioned the death of her London husband and then began to milk his bank accounts. In Hua Hin, 200 miles south west of Bangkok, pensioners Peter Rees, 71, and David Williams, 65, have put £11,000 into a […]
The National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department will not close all the marine national parks along the Andaman Sea coast to save damaged coral reefs from bleaching. “Closing the marine national parks will not help the coral reefs recover from bleaching,” the Department’s directorgeneral Sunant Arunnopparat said. The Marine and Coastal Resources Department prepared […]
BANGKOK, 19 January 2011 (NNT) – The Ministry of Education is pressing ahead with its campaign to raise awareness about unwanted pregnancy and unsafe sex among teenagers. Speaking upon the launch of the campaign, Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat elaborated that the campaign would educate teenagers aged between 15 and 19 years old to realize the […]
The transport minister is poised to enforce strict control on the speed limit on highways and regulate school buses across the country in the interest of safety. Transport Minister Sopon Sarum stated he has unveiled two urgent policies on road safety. The policies are in accordance with the Transport Ministry’s mandate to decrease road accidents […]
The Public Health Ministry confirmed yesterday that at least two people had died in the cold weather – one in Loei and the other in Chiang Rai. “Victims in this category are people who died because they lacked warm clothes and lived in areas declared as being hit by a cold spell,” Public Health Minister […]
A three-day-old baby was a victim of physical abuse last year – and some 56 young girls went missing after online chats with strangers, the most in 11 years. These were some of the disturbing details in an annual report released yesterday by the Paveena Hongsakul Foundation. The foundation received 7,855 complaints, 635 involving rapes […]
Thailand Department of Marine and Coastal Resources is seeking the closure of two diving paradises, the Similan and Surin national parks after the coral there was found suffering from bleaching. The scope of the corals destroyed from the bleaching has been wide and unless proper measures are issued, more coral would be destroyed by the […]
Jan 15, 2011 (The Nation – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — BANGKOK (THE NATION-THAILAND/ANN) — Thai Airways International’s board of directors yesterday endorsed a revised sixyear investment plan (2011-2017), which includes the acquisition of 37 new aircraft to replace retired planes and accommodate business expansion. THAI last year built up a solid foundation that […]
