Northern provinces, especially Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, were blanketed by unsafe levels of the carcinogenic PM2.5 on Sunday, according to the Health Department.
The Thai government on January 28 announced that the fifth Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge is set to open early next year which should help boost border exchanges not only between localities between Thailand and Laos but also trade in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), as it will speed up imports between Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and China (Yunnan).
The owner of a brand-new vehicle wrecked by a speeding Bentley while taking her family to see her parents wants full compensation from the errant driver, including a replacement new car.
During the government's week-long campaign for road safety during the New Year holiday, 317 people were killed and 2,437 others injured in 2,440 traffic accidents across the country.
Forty people died in road accidents nationwide on Monday, the fifth day of the week-long New Year road safety campaign, raising the holiday death toll to 263.
NAKHON PHANOM: Marines from the navy's Mekong Riverine Unit seized 458,000 methamphetamine pills left by smugglers on the bank of the Mekong river in Tha Uthen district late on Saturday night.