New Year revellers throng Central World to welcome 2023
LARGE crowds of both Thai and foreign revellers packed Ratchadamri road in front of Central World shopping complex for the New Year countdown celebration that started in the evening, Thai Rath newspaper said. The event, entitled “Central World Bangkok Countdown 2023 Times Square of Asia” was organised by this shopping complex together with Tourism Authority […]
Read MoreWorld readies for New Year parties after Covid-19 hiatus
By Agencies and published by CNA Sydney – Australia is gearing up to celebrate its first restriction-free New Year’s Eve after two years of Covid disruptions, with more than a million revellers expected to flock to Sydney’s harbourfront and watch an elaborate fireworks display. Sydney is one of the world’s first major cities to […]
Read MoreKhmer soldiers seal off gutted casino-hotel complex near Thai border
CAMBODIAN soldiers took full control of the fire-gutted casino-hotel complex at Poipet border town, just across from Aranyaprathet subdistrict, Sa Kaeo province, this afternoon (Dec. 31) after ordering Thai rescuers to withdraw at 6 p.m. yesterday, Naewna newspaper said. Cambodia’s Military Region 5 sent troops to block off the three buildings of the Grand Diamond […]
Read More48 dead on 2nd of seven dangerous days
ON THE second of seven dangerous days yesterday (Dec. 30) there were 366 accidents that killed 48 people and injured 363 others with speeding being the biggest cause of these road crashes, TV Channel 7 said today (Dec. 31). The Road Safety Centre said this took the total for the first two of seven […]
Read MoreTwo Indian men in a punch-up on Thai Smile flight
CIRCULATING on social media is a video clip of two Indian men having a punch-up on a Thai Smile flight from Bangkok to India on Dec. 27 with the air hostess successfully separating the two angry fliers, Thai Rath newspaper said. As the video clip spread rapidly online other passengers on this flight said […]
Read MoreElectoral contestants warned against handing out New Year gifts, calendars
By Thai Newsroom Reporters ALL THOSE WHO MAY contest the next general election for MPs are cautioned to never hand out New Year gifts or calendars to anyone from now until the polling date. The Election Commission is seeing to it that no electoral contestants will practically break the law by handing out New […]
Read MorePrayut has failed to fight corruption for eight years: Academic
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PRAYUT Chan-o-cha has evidently failed to combat corruption in bureaucratic circles over the last eight years since the former army chief seized power, according to a noted academic. Thammasat University’s law lecturer Prinya Thaewanarumitkul has posted on his Facebook page to allege Prayut of having utterly failed to […]
Read More22 employees, gamblers dead in Cambodian casino-hotel inferno
THE HUGE FIRE at the three-building casino-hotel complex in Cambodia’s Poipet border town, just across from Aranyaprathet subdistrict, Sa Kaeo province, has killed 22 employees and gamblers so far with 53 injured and eight still missing, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Dec. 30). Eyewitnesses said the blaze at Grand Diamond City Hotel and Casino which […]
Read MoreIndia makes negative Covid test mandatory for travellers from 5 countries
By Reuters and published by CNA New Delhi – India will make a negative Covid-19 test mandatory for flyers from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand from Jan. 1, the Health Minister said today (Dec. 29). Travellers from these countries and territories would have to upload their test reports on an India […]
Read MoreAnupong says no to post-election politics
By Thai Newsroom Reporters INTERIOR MINISTER ANUPONG Paochinda said today (Dec.29) he will no longer get involved in politics after the next general election. The interior minister told reporters he has considered himself as being today “too old” to keep going on in the political arena after the election, likely scheduled for early next […]
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