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Thailand’s Trains Travel on Troubled Tracks Senior maintenance technicians on Thailand’s State owned rail system; some with more than 20 years’ experience declare that the system is afflicted by a dearth of appropriate extra parts. They said experienced mechanics were attempting to meet impracticable requirements to continue running dilapidated equipment in service. The SRT has [...]

Greenpeace Bugs Bigshots in Hua Hin Greenpeace, the environmental group, assembled at the 15th Asean Summit on Saturday, insisting Asian principals to take a important action to stop climate change. The activist group hopes that positive steps will be taken by ASEAN member states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The group grabbed attention by rolling [...]

Abhisit Opens ASEAN Conference Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva says that Asean leaders must focus their efforts to make the proposed Southeast Asia economic area a reality by 2015, In addressing the opening formal procedure of the Asean summit yesterday, Mr Abhisit robustly upheld the role of the Asean secretary-general in conveying pressing issues to the [...]

Hun Sen Seemingly Insults Thai Hosts Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen said after arriving at Hua Hin airport that former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra may become his economic adviser. The statement was made as Hun Sen arrived for the ASEAN summit to be held this week. “I plan to appoint Mr Thaksin as my economic [...]

Thai King Appears in Public His Majesty the King of Thailand made a public appearance Friday afternoon by leaving his hospital room at Siriraj hospital to pay homage to the royal statues of his father and mother which stand in front of the hospital where he is staying. The King sat on a wheelchair and [...]

“Merchant of Death” May Be Set Free in thailand A higher-ranking Thai prosecutor rebuffed demands from Washington Thursday over its attempts to extradite Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, sometimes known as the “Merchant of Death”. The Thai appeals court is considering moves by the Thai government in opposition to the criminal court’s ruling in August [...]

Railroad Union Strike Gets Sidetracked The head of Thailand’s Hat Yai railroad workers union, Wiroon Sakaekhum, has told reporters the members of his union will not continue to obstruct the train service connecting Yala and Bangkok, but that State Railway of Thailand executives will have to be willing to take the blame if anything happens [...]

First Ever Positive Results of An AIDS Vaccine Resulting data from an Aids vaccine trial conducted in Thailand was given to scientists on Tuesday for the first time, confirming the trial vaccine as only being partially effective against the HIV virus but still a step in the right direction. Volunteer patients who received the vaccine [...]

700,000 Baht Bomb Detector Fails Real Life Test A Thai military team inspected a suspicious motorcycle with a GT200 bomb scanner, but the device did not detect a bomb. The bomb on board the motorcycle exploded about 15 minutes after the military squad had left the scene with their not so effective bomb detector. Online [...]