Suthin taken to task over contentious defence budgeting
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PHEU THAI-ATTACHED DEFENCE Minister Suthin Khlangsang was today (June 20) taken to task over the questionable defence budgeting which allegedly focuses on personnel rather than high-tech weapon systems and equipment to meet today’s warfare challenges. During the second day of House floor debate on the 2025 budget bill, Move Forward […]
Read MoreDrug gangs selling meths at only 5 baht a pill in 3 Northeastern border provinces
DRUG barons have slashed the price of methamphetamine pills to only 5 baht each after weakening the composition with this low-priced variety now available at three Northeastern border provinces, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (June 20). Col. Sivadol Yarklai, commander of Third Infantry Division and head of the drug suppression unit in the Northeastern […]
Read MoreDon Mueang tollway rates to rise from December
THE Don Mueang Tollway Pcl, operator of Uttraphimuk elevated tollway better known as Don Mueang tollway, today (June 20) announced that it is increasing toll rates from Dec. 22, 2024 onwards, Amarin TV said. Thenceforth for five years, Dec. 22, 2024 to Dec. 21, 2029, the toll fee for Din Daeng-Don Mueang stretch will […]
Read MoreOnly 5,000 out of 330,000 litres of smuggled oil left
AN INSPECTION of three oil-smuggling boats that escaped from Marine Police pier in Sattahip, Chonburi, and were later seized off Songkhla city in the South found that only 5,000 out of 330,000 litres of contraband oil now remain, Amarin TV said today (June 20). Pol.Col. Paramet Phoinok, head of Marine Police in Songkhla, together […]
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