Latest News in Thailand

Hot, Dry, in Thailand During Hot Dry Season
Thailand’s dry period is anticipated to be harsher and last longer than normal this year, the chairman of the Foundation for National Disaster Warning System of Thailand (NDWST) Smith Dharmasaroja told reporters on Friday.
Mr Smith held that the effects would be felt all over the country. He attributed [...]

Thai King Returns to Hospital
Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej for a short time left the hospital where he has been treated for the past five months to make a late-night visit to his palace, an official announced on Sunday.
It was the only time the 82-year-old ruler has left Siriraj Hospital since he was hospitalized Sept. 19 [...]

Train Derailment Injures 20
Twenty persons were hurt in a train derailment in Thailand’s southern region of Songkhla on Thursday morning.
Of the 20 injured travelers, five, together with a pregnant woman, are gravely injured.
The cause of the mishap is under examination. The disaster scene is a curve where accidents have transpired in the past.
The Songkhla wreck [...]

Drug Scare in Bangkok School
Misuse of over-the-counter cough suppressants at a Bangkok school is raising apprehension about public education on drug use and the value of controls on drug sales by pharmacies.
About 80 students, most of them in Prathom 4 and 5 (Grade 4 and 5), at Wat Tha Phra school in Bangkok Yai district [...]

New Drug Task Force to Take Fight to Northern Provinces
The Thai government is creating a new drug control force linking civilians and law enforcement to boost the fight against drug smuggling near the border.
The new force would operate in perimeter provinces such as Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai, which are main routes for drugs smuggled [...]

Pomegranates Conceal Contraband
Thai Police have confiscated 142,000 methamphetamine tablets, known as yaba, four kilogrammes of heroin and another two kilograms of crystal meth in the northernThai province of Phrae on Thursday.
Police released a statement that a 10-wheel truck loaded with pomegranates from Chiang Rai overturned in Phrae’s Song district. The truck driver, Montri Chandhom, called [...]

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 a transparent-plastic [...]

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 in a [...]

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 had a [...]