Latest News in Thailand

Latest Travel Warning in Thailand
24 countries have issued travel warnings about traveling to Thailand, 10 of the 24 countries have raised the level of alarm of travel warning following the government’s violent and abusive crackdown on PAD anti-government protesters. The 10 countries are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Japan and the UK, ten counties [...]

Thailand’s football team wins against USA
Thailand’s football team won against USA 5-3 in second round of World Cup Football in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
Thailand has 1 win and 1 loss to Italy in opening game. USA lost 5 to 0 to Paraguay and lost 6 to 1 to Italy, in a 3rd straight loss to [...]

1,700+ Bangkok Slums to be moved out of Bangkok
Prime Minister Samak spoke at the National Economic and Social Development Board on the visions for Thailand for 2027 seminar and said he will move over 1,700 slums out of Bangkok. Samak said the Thai government would relocate over 1,700 slum communities out of Bangkok. Samak said [...]

Killing mosquitoes, fewer mosquitoes may increase dengue fever
A research study in Thailand found that the killing off of mosquitos may increase dengue fever.
Yoshiro Nagao and other researchers of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine say that dengue, which is also known as ‘breakbone fever’, dengue is usually not fatal for the first time [...]

Contractors Pump Out Waste from Septic Tanks in Chumphon
This Morning I received some disturbing information from a friend of mine who lives in Chumphon. This information affects everyone, especially vegans, and as a public service I want to alert as many people as possible.
It appears that the contractors that pump out the [...]

Ayutthaya, Thailand: Drug Enforcement Agents ‘DEA’ in Thailand burn US$310,000,000 of seized illicit illegal narcotic drugs collected this year marking today, the UN anti-drugs day. The drugs were set on fire and destroyed.
The police personnel involved experienced the residual effects from the burning bonfire of drugs. In developed countries special incinerators are used to [...]

Queen Elizabeth, Bill Gates and Hollywood donate to Burma Cyclone Victims, but the U.N. says government donations are short of needed aid in Burma for relief victims.
Queen Elizabeth II and Harry Potter author Rowling both contributed an ‘undisclosed sum’ to Myanmar relief. In the USA, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $3 billion [...]

Burma’s Misery Under Junta Continues
Burma’s ruling junta has requested aid and rescue personnel from Bangladesh, India China, and Thailand to help its relief work for sufferers of Cyclone Nargis, while still holding up the granting of visas to many experts from other nations, a United Nations administrator said Wednesday. “I understand that Burma has requested [...]

His Majesty Requests Thais to help Burma
His Majesty the King has asked the Thai people to help Cyclone Nargis sufferers in Burma, and Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej will leave for the adjoining country this morning to persuade the junta to open up to global support. Speaking to staff of the Rajaprajanugroh Foundation under royal sponsorship, [...]