Latest News in Thailand

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 [...]

U.N. Representative Arrives in Burma
A UN human rights representative landed in Burma Monday for a five-day stopover ahead of the country’s ballot vote, an official said.
Tomas Ojea Quintana arrived via commercial flight at Rangoon airport and was whisked to his hotel prior to meeting with UN staff, the official spoke on condition of anonymity.
“He arrived [...]

I Don’t Recall a Recall Like This
A Thai spokesperson for Toyota Motor Thailand announced today that customers who imported or purchased their cars from neighborhood independent importers or on the grey market need to contact Toyota dealers countrywide to check whether their imported cars match those being recalled.
Toyota’s Thai unit will then synchronize with Toyota [...]

Thailand’s Trains to Travel Faster
Thailand’s Council of Economic Ministers has approved a plan to improve the rail system to the tune of about 100 billion baht as has been proposed by the Transport Ministry, according to Deputy Prime Minister Korbsak Sabhavasu.
The plan gives outlines for improvement of railway tracks all over the nation, purchasing new [...]

Tourists Turn Away From Thailand
International tourist arrivals to Thailand will diminish by 38% to 1.5 million this year due to the doggedness of global economic troubles and local political volatility. This is according to The Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA).
Surapol Sritrakul, the association’s president, said advance reservations for the high season had been greatly [...]

Thai Train Topcat Talks Tough to Striking Strikers
The director of Thailand’s state railway system has fire unceremoniously six staff at Hat Yai station as well as two outspoken officials of the railway union.
All eight were removed because of the obstruction of train services in the lower South.
The State railway is preparing to fire more workers [...]

Rail Strike Goes On and On
Thailand’s rail strike is continuing to cause havoc. Staff who have walked off their jobs in the South will be facing legal steps from the government to make certain that normal working standards are preserved, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva told reporters on Monday.
He acknowledged the workers right to complain [...]

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 209 locomotives [...]

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 to [...]