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UAE Still Welcoming to Thaksin A legal adviser for former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, Noppadon Pattama, has stated that reports were erroneous that the United Arab Emirates had asked the fugitive politician to exit the country for the reason that it does not want to support his political actions. Mr Noppadon told reporters that the UAE [...]

Mitsubishi Plugging Into Electric Car Revolution Mitsubishi Motors, The Japanese car maker has lobbied the Thai Industry Ministry for government support for manufacturing its lithium battery cars. Mitsubishi has recommend that the Industry ministry should push local manufacture toward battery-powered vehicles and add the product as a strategic direction for the nation’s 2010-2015 automotive plans. [...]

Thai Economy Rebounding The economy of Thailand has come out of the recession during the second quarter, thanks to increased government spending. The National Economic and Social Development Board stated that the Thai economy contracted 4.9% during the second quarter compared to the same period last year, a much slower decline than the 7.1% year-on-year [...]

Lethal Injection for Drug Dealers Thailand has executed two convicted drug traffickers at Bang Khwang prison by lethal injection. Bundit Jaroenwanit, 45, and Jirawat Poompreuk, 52, became the country’s fifth and sixth persons to be killed by lethal injection, which replaced death by firing squad in 2003. The mood at the prison in Nonthaburi was [...]

Fraud Calling Chinese and Taiwanese organized crime is operating call centre scams throughout Southeast Asia including Thailand. “A call centre set up in Thailand makes random calls to victims in Taiwan, Korea, China, Singapore and Malaysia using the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system,” Pol Maj Gen Panya stated to reporters. The victims are told [...]

PAD Office Attacked in Chiang Mai A People’s Alliance for Democracy office in Chiang Mai province has been struck by small home-made bombs, damaging two cars and breaking a glass door. A 60-year-old woman at a merit-making rite to commemorate the opening of the office received a broken leg in the ensuing confusion. The incident [...]

Teenage Refugees from Burma Die in Thailand Two teenage Rohingya refugees from Burma held in the Ranong detention center for seven months have died after they starved themselves to death since becoming dispirited and refusing to eat. The two teens Abdul Salam, 18, and Hammatula, 15, bodies were covered in wounds, after apparently being tortured [...]

Cloud Seeding Underway in Central Thailand Thailand’s government has turned to Cloud-seeding operations to help fill the Thap Salao dam in the Udon Thani area which is currently running low on water. Arkhanay Boonlert, head of the artificial rain-making centre for the central region, stated that the reservoir’s water was down about 21% from its [...]

Economic Stimulus for Villages Still Rife With Graft New inquiries by Thailand’s Office of the Auditor-General expose a similar model of alleged dishonesty in the Democrat-led government’s community sufficiency economy system and in the former Thaksin administration’s village development fund. In a recent interview with the Bangkok Post, Auditor-General Jaruvan Maintaka said money has been [...]