NARATHIWAT: An army ranger was killed and seven policemen plus two civilians wounded by bomb blasts in a rubber planting in Sungai Padi district yesterday, police said.Continue Reading
Mongkolkit Suksintharanon, leader of the Thai Civilized Celebration, yesterday filed a petition with the Constitutional Court seeking a ruling to settle Primary Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s tenure wrangle.Continue Reading
Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul says he is looking forward to a visit from their Malaysian counterpart who have he says has indicated an interest in studying the Thai design for legalising cannabis for medical make use of.Continue Reading
Thailand has confirmed the fifth case of monkeypox, after a Thailänder woman who came back from Dubai has been found to be sick with the disease upon arriving at Suvarnabhumi airport on Sunday.Continue Reading
GENEVA: The Red Cross on Monday (Aug 15) appealed to says and donors to create aside their political objections to the Taliban and resume help flows to Afghanistan’s state institutions to help relieve an “unbearable” humanitarian situation there. The hardline Islamist Taliban marked a year in power on Monday withContinue Reading
BANGKOK: Thai police have arrested a Chinese fugitive wanted by Beijing for allegedly running illegal online gambling operations and will soon extradite him to China, the police told Reuters on Monday (Aug 15). She Zhijiang, 40, a Chinese national who also holds a Cambodian passport, was arrested last week basedContinue Reading
The three men, aged between 22 and 30, will be charged with rioting.Continue Reading
Heavy rain pounded Greater Bangkok on Monday evening and left some eastern districts of the capital reeling under knee-deep water.Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: Merchants and organisations that use SMS sender IDs may soon be required to join the SMS Sender ID Registry (SSIR) under a new proposal by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). The proposal is part of ongoing efforts by the authorities to fight scams and “further safeguard SMS asContinue Reading
Overview OPSEC: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told government officials last week to stop talking about the coming offensive and Kiev’s military tactics, an apparent response to remarks by the Ukrainian General Staff G-3, Major General Gromov, that the offensive would begin soon and liberate much of occupied Ukraine by the end of the year. “The general rule […]
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