frfChiang Mai provincial administration and a network of civic groups opposing the Doi Suthep housing project for judges and officials of Region 5 Appeals Court agreed at a meeting today that the 45 housing units for judges must be immediately vacated…
Developers of two proposed hydropower projects in Laos are pressing ahead with plans to build the mega-dams on the Mekong River, despite a recent order by the government to halt new dam investments following a deadly breach in July that killed 35 peopl…
As tropical storm Bebinca is approaching Vietnam, 36 provinces in the North, Northeast, East and South have been warned to brace for intensive rain and isolated terrential downpours during Aug 16-1, according to the Meteorological Department’s latest w…
YANGON, Myanmar Myanmar and Thailand have reached an air service agreement and a memorandum of understanding on development of shrimp culture in Rakhine state, the official Global New Light of Myanmar reported Wednesday.The signing of the agreements t…
As tropical storm Bebinca is approaching Vietnam, 36 provinces in the North, Northeast, East and South have been warned to brace for intensive rain and isolated terrential downpours during Aug 16-1, according to the Meteorological Department’s latest w…
The head of China’s Hunan Province Chamber of Commerce in Laos was murdered over the weekend during an invasion of his home in the Lao capital Vientiane, authorities said Wednesday, adding that the preliminary results of an investigation into the case …
UNITED NATIONS (New York), The conferment of Thai citizenship on three of the 12 boys and their soccer coach, rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand last month, has fetched praise from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). The rescu…
SEOUL/TAIPEI People in South Korea and Taiwan unveiled monuments and staged protests on Tuesday to mark Japan’s wartime use of “comfort women,” a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in Japan’s wartime brothels.In South Korea, a new monument …
Thae Prakasvudhisarn, a national artist in the field of performing art (movie and drama) in 1999 and wellknown Thai film maker, died on Aug 12 at the age of 100, according to a release of the Thai Film Archive.He was a legendary Thai film maker with th…
Super Poll Research Office Noppadol Kanikar has expressed doubts over the reliability of an opinion poll conducted by the Office of the Secretary-General of the Senate on the Election Commission Bill regarding the question of provincial election inspec…