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700,000 Baht Bomb Detector Fails Real Life Test A Thai military team inspected a suspicious motorcycle with a GT200 bomb scanner, but the device did not detect a bomb. The bomb on board the motorcycle exploded about 15 minutes after the military squad had left the scene with their not so effective bomb detector. Online [...]

Thai Trains not Rollin’ Round the Bend Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Monday that the four-day railway union strike will be ended as rapidly as is doable. The labor union of the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) had brought to a standstill train services in the South for four successive days; citing the [...]

U.S. Navy Visits Phuket Phuket’s economy is booming thanks to a spate of visits by foreign naval vessels. Visits by warships bring with them thousands of friendly sailors anxious to meet locals and have a good time. Navy ships from the US, Australia, Britain, India and Russia have stopped in the past few years. Recently, [...]

Separatists Suspected in Southern Strife A Sergeant Major in the Thai army, and his wife Surachai Chansoongnern and, Apiradee Majeh, were gravely wounded on Tuesday morning when an explosive device planted underneath their pickup truck detonated at a military check-point in Narathiwat’s Waeng region, police said. Separatist militants are suspected of having set off the [...]

Drowsy Driver Doses During Derailing The deaths of eight passengers and injury to more than 80 others, was determined to be the fault of the train operator who apparently ignored stop signals State Railway of Thailand deputy governor Pakorn Tangjetsakao said on Monday. The committee investigating the accident resolved to fire Mr Roengsak for unsafe [...]

Flood Waters Threaten Bangkok The Thai government is closely watching the flood conditions throughout the country while vitally helping people in the afffested areas, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva stated in his weekly television address on Sunday morning. He told the nation that the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation as well as other relevant agencies [...]

Tourism Down in Thailand The numbers of foreign tourists entering Thailand so far this year have declined 14.1 per cent from the same period last year to approximately only 8.9 million, deputy spokesman of the Democrat Party, Atthawit Suwanphakdee, attested on Saturday. Mr Athhawat blamed the decline on the impact of the Songkran riots by [...]

Police Station Proposed for Bangkok Airport Bangkok deputy police Chief Watcharapol Prasarnratchakij said on Friday that a proposal to set up a special police station inside the Suvarnabhumi airport has been endorsed in principle by a commission for solving difficulties at the airport and improving the quality of service. The suggestion was prepared by Pol [...]

PAD Reads Statement after Attacking Villagers in Their Homes The yellow shirted People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) has finished its violent attacks on villagers to force Cambodians out of the area in the vicinity of the Phrea Vihear temple but vowed to return if the government fails to resolve the matter to yellow shirt satisfaction. [...]