Road accidents kill 325 in Thailand’s New Year’s highway carnage Bangkok – Road accidents claimed 325 lives during the first six of Thailand’s seven deadly days of New Year’s driving, officials said Tuesday. Between December 29 to Monday some 3,227 road accidents occurred on Thailand’s highways, killing 325 people and injuring 3,453, according to figures […]
Thai Prime Minister believes an election in the first half of the year will show he is not clinging to power The dissolution of the House, should it go ahead early, should be done in the first half of the year, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva says. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva predicts his party will win […]
The crackdown by Thai police on undesirable foreigners living in Thailand gained momentum with numerous arrests of fugitives wanted by INTERPOL and other countries. Police Lt. General Wuthi Liptapanlop, directed the very capable leader Police Colonel Athiwit Kamonrat Superintendent of Chonburi Immigration to use all available resources to catch the wanted fugitives in Pattaya. -TN
Road accidents claimed 234 lives in Thailand’s first four days of the seven deadly days of New Year’s driving, officials said Sunday. Between Wednesday to Saturday some 2,473 road accidents occurred on Thailand’s highways, killing 234 people and injuring 2,656, according to figures released by the government’s Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department. The department said […]
New Year Eve saw 684 road accidents happen, killing 72 people and injuring 716 others, the road safety centre announced Saturday. At the end of Friday, the third of the seven dangerous New Year holidays, the accumulated death toll of road accidents nationwide has climbed to 151, Phirapat Booncharoen, an assistant the justice minister announced. […]
Bangkok – Road accidents claimed 79 lives in Thailand’s first two of the deadly days of New Year’s driving, officials said Friday. On Wednesday and Thursday, 1,012 road accidents occurred on Thailand’s highways, killing 79 people and injuring 1,095, according to government figures. Wibul Sanguanpong, director general of the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department, said […]
All except one of the 85 “Srivijaya warriors”, supporters of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), were on Thursday sentenced to jail terms ranging from nine months to two-and-a-half years on charges relating to the seizure of the National Broadcasting Service of Thailand (NBT) television station, Channel 11, in August 2008. The sentence was announced […]
BANGKOK, Dec 30 – Twenty-four people were killed and 425 were wounded in nearly 400 road accidents on the first day of Thailand’s “Dangerous Seven Days” with past indicators showing that the major cause of accidents is driving under influence of alcohol, said a senior official of Transport Ministry on Thursday. Deputy Transport Minister Sorayut […]
