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Thai Soldiers Will not Return to Barracks Thai Soldiers camped at support locations in Bangkok cannot meet the terms of the anti-government demonstrators’ request to return to their barracks, mediation operations centre spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd said on Saturday. “It’s not possible for the troops to leave their stations, because their job is to prevent violence. [...]

Drought Disaster Strikes Thailand Thailand’s Interior Ministry’s Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department on Friday declared that 53 provinces – 382 districts, 2,499 tambons and 1,9,704 villages – throughout the country have been proclaimed disaster areas because of water scarcity. Of the 53 regions, 16 are in the North, 15 in the Northeast, eight in the [...]

Thaksin Lawyers Back Again Lawyers for former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will today present what they claim is new substantiation to the Supreme Court in an effort to win a new trial over the confiscation of the bulk of the former prime minister’s Thai monies. Noppadon Pattama, Thaksin’s legal adviser, said yesterday that the [...]

Local administration associations are planning to stage a protest if the government declines to give them enough money to manage rising cost in the 2011 fiscal year. Local municipalities, provincial administration groups and tambon management organizations, say they will scrutinize state subsidy allotments to see whether the government gives them 25% of tax collected as [...]

Air Bad in North, Real Bad Mae Hong Son District Chamber of Commerce spokesperson Supoj Klinpraneed said flight cessations greatly affected the economy of the region because tourists, fearing the smog and the lengthy trip by car, chose to visit other tourist spots. Mae Hong Son measured Wednesday fine particles smaller than 10 microns (PM10) [...]

Thai Stock Exchange Rises The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) composite index on Tuesday increased 17.37 points or 2.36 per cent to end the day up at 752.20 points. The share value was 27.39 billion baht, with 4.54 billion shares traded. The SET100 index closed the session at 1,142.48 points, up 28.08 points or 2.52 [...]

Principles of Righteousness for Thailand Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announced on Monday morning he could not agree to the red-shirts’ demand that he concur to disband the House of Representatives by noon today, but he left the door open to reflect on their views. In a countrywide broadcast subsequent to a special meeting of [...]

Thai Economy Could Expand 5% Thailand’s economy has a likelihood of growing more than five per cent this year if the political doubt and the postponement of industrial projects in Map Ta Phut are decided, former finance minister Pridiyathorn Devakula said on Monday. “If the political problems subside and the Map Ta Phut impasse is [...]

Thaksin Sends SMS and Twitters to Followers Thailand’s convicted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has sent out an SMS message to his followers asking them to join in the mass anti-government protest rally this weekend by the United front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) in Bangkok. The UDD plans a giant public meeting in Bangkok [...]