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State Railway of Thailand to clarify Airport Link train purchase
The Transport Ministry on 17 September ordered the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) to provide a full report on its 4.4-billion-baht purchase of seven trains for the Airport Rail Link project after the agency was accused of procurement fraud. Deputy Transport Minister Omsin Cheewapreuk asked SRT governor Wuthichart ...
Pattaya digs out from Vamco as 5 provinces declared disasters
Pattaya residents are removing fallen trees, digging out mud and filling more sandbags after tropical depression Vamco lashed Chon Buri and four other provinces which have been declared disaster zones by the government. The Interior Ministry said 14 tambons in eight districts in Chanthaburi, Chon Buri. ...
Pattaya floods after heavy rains, tourists stranded on Koh Lan
Heavy rains lashed Pattaya on 16 September and left about 400 Thai and foreign tourists stranded on Koh Lan and flooded parts of the city. The heavy rains lasted for about three hours. Keep reading ...
Pattaya floods
Tropical depression Vamco pounded many areas of Thailand, especially the eastern region, with rain and gusty winds on 16 September. In Pattaya, pumps were brought in to battle the sudden flood and people were evacuated to safety. The storm was downgraded to a low pressure ...
Survey finds Thai government doing poor job publicising economic plans
Largely clueless about the government’s economic plans, a majority of the Thais believe officials should go on the road to publicise their initiatives to reignite the economy, a poll released on 17 September concluded. The survey of 1,200 people nationwide by the University of the Thai Chamber ...
Thai marine police claim 'self defence' in firing on Vietnamese fishermen
Thai maritime police said they opened fire on a Vietnamese fishing boat while trying to intercept another vessel in waters near Malaysia last week, a clash Vietnamese state media said killed a fisherman and wounded two others. Officials from the two countries were quoted on 16 ...
Pattaya reels as Vamco leaves a path of destruction
Vamco, one of the most disastrous storms in the last five years, has battered the city, brought traffic to a standstill and flooded countless homes and businesses. Tropical Storm Vamco formed in the South China Sea on 13 September 2015 and went ashore to Vietnam, before ...
Ohanaeze Mekong Thailand moves to unite Ndigbo in Asia
Ohanaeze Ndigbo (one of the largest ethnic groups in Nigeria) living in the Mekong River area of South East Asia, comprising Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hong Kong and China recently converged on Bangkok, Thailand where they deliberated on issues of common interest and how they would ...
Lao, Thai to improve border anti-drug efforts
Officials from Laos and Thailand have agreed to step up cooperative efforts investigating and controlling drugs along their shared border. The officials met on 16 September in Vientiane to also discuss their previous joint work on the anti-drug problems of both nations. Chairman of the Lao National Commission ...
B200bn stimulus at the ready
At least 200 billion baht of the government’s budget is expected to be taken out from October-December as part of efforts to ramp up public spending and tackle cooling economic expansion. In the first three months of fiscal 2016 starting Oct 1, state agencies plan ...
