Mae Sot, Thailand – When Cynthia Maung stumbled across the Thai-Myanmar border into Mae Sot in 1988 after a 10-day jungle trek to flee a military crackdown in Yangon, she planned to stay a few months at most. Twenty-two years later, Dr Maung’s Mae Tao clinic is a border institution, employing a staff of 634 […]
BANGKOK, July 11 (TNA) — As Thailand is facing sharp declines in birth and death rates, an academic population expert advised on Sunday, World Population Day, that the government should lay out measures to encourage people to produce ‘qualitative rather than quantitative children’. Prof Pramote Prasartful of Mahidol University said the birth rate in Thailand […]
In recent years, Myanmar-Thailand relations have experienced a surge of positive bilateralism due to their common membership in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). However, the thaw in relations still leaves the boundary dispute between two countries largely unresolved. A major clash occurred in February 2001 and tension on the border still prevails. It’s critical […]
A six-year-old girl has unwittingly committed suicide whilst demonstrating the act of a hanging with her twin brother. The pair had recently watched a Thai movie depicting a young woman committing suicide something, which psychiatrists believe, significantly influenced the young girls’ actions. Nakorn Sawan, the 1st of July 2010 [PDN]: At approximately 10:00am on Thursday, […]
Thai military and police have increased their surveillance of people in the country’s north who are suspected to be allied with Red Shirt protesters. Intelligence officials have information suggesting that protesters have moved underground and could be planning violent retaliation in their strongholds, which are in the north and north-east of the country, according to […]
Border patrol police who were blocked in their camp by red shirts for five hours in Phitsulok province managed to break through the blocking on Monday. The police then headed to Bangkok to join their comrades who are guarding red shirts protesters at Rajprasong rally site. The blocking at Phraya Chakri camp where 150 border […]
The red shirts are rallying in 17 provinces in the North and the Northeast to support their fellow protesters in Bangkok, Interior Minister Chaovarat Chanweerakul said on Thursday. “Although protests are sprounting up, there are no reports of any danger,” he said, reaffirming the authorities can control the situation. Provincial governors are under instruction to […]
Thousands of red shirts from the North and the Northeast have started their march Friday’s morning, expecting to reach Bangkok by Sunday. Those from the North are expected to converge and stay overnight in Nakhon Sawan while those from the Northeast will spend the night at Nakhon Ratchasima. Before departing their respective hometowns, the red […]
