Latest News in Thailand

Artificial Leg for Thai Elephant A female elephant named Motola, who lost part of her leg when she stepped on a land mine 10 years ago and suffered a painful operation to amputate it, has received a new artificial leg. The 48-year-old Asian elephant has become representative of the quandary surrounding elephants today, and her [...]

Rare Irrawaddy Dolphins Facing Extinction in Mekong River The environmental organization, The World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) has announced a study finding that only 64 to possibly 76 Irrawaddy Dolphins remain in the Mekong river. The explanation given for the declining numbers is that toxic pesticides as well as industrial waste are so polluting [...]

Swine Flu Stampedes Through Thailand Official reported cases of H1N1 flu virus have reached 310, doubling in the last 24 hours. The Public Health Ministry has asked provincial health and hospital officials not to speak to the media about swine flu cases in an effort to calm public concern about the spread of the virus. [...]

Burma Continues Preparing for Aung San Suu Kyi Trial Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize winner, who will turn 64 this Friday, is currently being held at Rangoon’s infamous Insein prison on charged with breaching the terms of her house arrest after an incident where an American man swam to her lakeside house in [...]

Thai Community Radio to Come Under Government Supervision About 1,200 owners and operators of small community radio stations have hurried to submit an application for advance registration so they will be at the top of the line up when the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) issues licenses and frequencies designations The NTC has informed more than [...]

Thai Government Vows to End Violence in Southern Thailand in Three Years Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva spoke today about the violence in southern Thailand related to the Muslim insurgency which continues to take innocent lives. The government is setting a deadline of three years to end the violence which has recently included a shooting [...]

Cambodia and Laos Removed from U.S. Trade Blacklist Companies doing business in Laos and Cambodia will be eligible for loans from the U.S. government with the removal of Laos and Cambodia from a trade blacklist meant to prevent loans going to “Marxist-Leninist” governments by the U.S. export-Import Bank. * President Obama stated : The Lao [...]

Swine Flu Toll in Thailand Now at 150 Confirmed Cases. 44 new cases of H1N1 flu have been reported by Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health. This brings the official total to 150. According to the Permanent Secretary for Public Health, Dr. Prat Boonyawongvirot, most of the new cases are students who contracted the virus at [...]

Attn: Red Shirts and Yellow Shirts of Thailand If we divide into two camps, even into violent and the nonviolent, and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree [...]