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Student faces two lese majeste charges in 24 hours published : 14 Jan 2021 at 19:10 55 Sirichai “New” Natueng (in black), a Thammasat University student, shows a three-fingered salute at the Thanyaburi Court in Pathum Thani province on Thursday. (Photo by Pongpat Wongyala) A Thammasat University freshman has been granted bail after facing two separate lese majeste charges in the span of fewer than 24 hours. His case was also the first in...

Restaurant, vendor passed off farmed pork as wild game meat 30 published : 14 Jan 2021 at 18:05 30 Officials from the Conservation Administration Office in Ban Pong file a complaint with police against two women for falsely advertising farmed pork as the meat of deer and barking deer. (Photo: Piyarat Chongcharoen) KANCHANABURI: A restaurant owner and a market vendor who advertised and sold meat they said was from wild game face charges of f...

(Jan. 15, 2021) This week, 80 years ago, units of the French Navy achieved a victory over the Royal Thai Navy during the brief war between the two countries. That war erupted on Jan. 5, 1941 when the Royal Thai Bruapha and Isan Armies launched an offensive against the French colonies of Laos and Cambodia. The reason was because France, in 1904, had forced Siam to transfer land along the Mekong River to Laos, and in 1907 had forced Siam to transfer three provinces to Cambodia. This occurred duri...

20 Sirikarn Chuekhetkram, 23, at Sai Mai police station in Bangkok after her arrest and police seizure of six packets of an illegal drug cocktail known as "k-powdered milk" on Tuesday.(Photo supplied/Wassayos Ngamkham) A young woman has been arrested in Bangkok’s Sai Mai area and a quantity of a new illegal drug cocktail known as "k-powdered milk" seized in the wake of the death of six people who used it. Sirikarn Chuekhetkram, 23, was taken into custody in front of a...

Myanmar’s Migrants Face Discrimination Amid Surging COVID-19 in Thailand Myanmar embassy officials led by Minister-Counselor U Maw Ba La arranges to transfer the Myanmar migrants–who tested COVID-19 positive and were quarantined previously at home–to the temporary field hospital in Mahachai’s football ground on January 8, 2021. / Myanmar Labour Attaché Office / Facebook 3.3k By Nyein Nyein 9 January 2021 Less than a month after Thailand’s leaders blamed Myanmar migrant workers for ...

It could be fun, in a strange sort of way 11 published : 10 Jan 2021 at 04:00 11 A number of readers -- well, three -- have asked why last weeks column did not contain the usual predictions for the coming year. My feeling at the time was that with the dark cloud of Covid-19 hovering over us it seemed a bit inappropriate to carry the usual frivolous PostScript predictions. However, I have had a change of heart and considering we are only 10 days into the New Year it is not too late to make s...

Covid travel permit impractical published : 8 Jan 2021 at 05:00 People are waiting for travel permits in Trat province on Thursday. (Photo: Jakkrit Waewklaihong) Emotions ran high at a number of district offices, where residents of eastern provinces which had been declared maximum and strict Covid-19 control areas were seen queuing for hours to get a permit to travel. Within the first hour of opening, the district office at Rayongs Muang dis...

Difficult roads ahead Difficult roads ahead Itll be up to Thai citizens to rescue its struggling tourism sector in 2021 as a prolonged pandemic is expected to depress international arrivals published : 31 Dec 2020 at 08:36 13 Visitors travel to the top of Khao Chang Pheuk hill in Thong Pha Phum National Park in Kanchanaburi to see the sunrise. Domestic tourists will play a crucial role in a rebound of the tourism industry during the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: PIYARACH CHONGCHAR...

Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua/Getty Images Students sit in a classroom on the first day of the new school year at the Al-Amari refugee camp in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestine. For many teachers and students, 2020 started out with a sense of normalcy. But that quickly changed as the novel coronavirus began spreading around the world in the first few months of the year. In March, lockdowns forced schools to close, and families transformed their living rooms, bedrooms, and kitchens into makeshi...

Great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn captured in stunning photos from around the world By Sophie Lewis 2 planets to meet in rare "great conjunction" Jupiter and Saturn, our solar systems two largest planets, were visibly closer together on Monday night than they have been in 800 years — marking an extremely rare celestial event known as the "great conjunction."  The conjunction occurs when the orbits of the two planets align every 20 years, but the event is not always ...