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VGI ramps up skytrain Airport Rail Link coverage
VGI Global Media Plc, the advertising space provider under the BTS Group, will begin selling ads in cross-category packages for the skytrain on Oct 1. The move will help to increase its gross profit margin by 1-2% and boost revenue to 1 billion baht this year. In its cross-category package, clients can buy ad spaces on billboards and LED monitors on stations, train bodies, signs inside train ...
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200 new citizens get papers
Chiang Rai's Mae Fah Luang district office yesterday issued ID cards to 200 people who were granted Thai nationality. Presiding over the card-issuing ceremony, district chief Wornnayarn Bunyarat said the move was part of the government's policy to tackle the problem of stateless people before ...
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Care needed with Thai biodiversity
Thais take too much from their country's bio-diversity - plants, animals and micro-organisms - and ignore limits in the process, a Thailand Environment Institute adviser warned yesterday. "Such ignorance has led to degradation and the loss of diversity," Prof Sanit Aksornkoae said at the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT). The session aimed to gather opinions for ...
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Obec chief faces investigation
The education minister has assigned a grave-disciplinary-offence committee to investigate Office of Basic Education Commission (Obec) chief Chinnapat Bhumirat for dereliction of duty, Deputy Education Minister Sermsak Pongpanich said yesterday. The committee, headed by Commission on Higher Education chief Apichart Jeerawut, has been urged to undertake the probe speedily. If Chinnapat feels he ...
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Ministry to take action against sex-trafficking in Chachoengsao
Social Development and Human Security Ministry officials have vowed action after discovering a rise in the number of immigrant workers in Chachoengsao province, especially Laotians working as prostitutes in karaoke bars. The ministry's deputy permanent secretary Supareuk Hongpakdee said yesterday that ministry officials had inspected areas prone to immigrant prostitution as a result of ...
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Bangkok set for 2014 Formula E Grand Prix
Bangkok was yesterday chosen to host a race in the inaugural season of the FIA Formula E Championship for electric cars next year. The announcement came during a special unveiling for the first time in Asia of the fully-electric-powered Formula E car, witnessed by Alejandro Agag, CEO of Championship promoter Formula E Holdings (FEH), advisor to the Minister of Energy Pol Maj-General Lattasanya ...
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Double Olympic champion to attend Taekwondo Youth Camp in Thailand
Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...
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NBTC slashes number switching fee
The cost of switching mobile networks and keeping the same phone number - known as mobile number portability - will be cut by 70 baht to 29 baht per transaction from July 1 in a move by the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission to boost competition in the mobile market. The NBTC's telecom committee approved cutting the fee from 99 to 29 baht on Tuesday. Mobile number ...
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Bugs for dinner Thailand raises ‘six-legged livestock’ for global food study
A new study says teens who had a schoolmate die by suicide are more likely to consider or attempt taking their own lives than those who haven't lost a peer to ...
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Massive power failure strikes southern Thailand affecting popular resorts
BANGKOK - A massive power failure has affected more than 8 million people in Thailand's 14 southern provinces, including popular tourist areas such as Koh Samui and Phuket, in one of the country's biggest blackouts in recent memory. Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand official Thatri Rewcharoen says the blackout was triggered Tuesday evening by the failure of the main high ...
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Brief blackout in the South causes confusion
Most of the South was engulfed in darkness for 35 minutes from about 7.45pm Tuesday night following malfunctions at the main power station in Prachuap Khiri Khan's Kui Buri district. The distribution of electricity resumes, first after around 35 minutes at certain locations, but most of the region are still in the dark even after two hours. Initial reports quoting the Provincial ...
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Interior Minister receives British and Thai Ambassadors
Manama, May 21 (BNA) -- Interior Minister Lieutenant General Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa today received British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain, Iain Lindsay, to review bilateral relations and issues of joint interests between both kingdoms. The Interior Minister also received Thai Ambassador to Bahrain, Vichai Varasirikul, to explore bilateral relations and issues of joint ...
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Cabinet approves dismissal of GPO chief
The cabinet on Tuesday approved the immediate dismissal of managing director Witit Artavatkun from the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation, as proposed by the Public Health Ministry. Lt Sunisa Lertpakawat, deputy government spokeswoman, said the ministry proposed the firing of Dr Witit after an investigation of irregularities in the procurement of 148 tonnes of paracetamol ingredients, and ...
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Deadly tornado ravages Oklahoma
At least 91 people were killed, including 20 children, and rescue workers frantically searched the rubble of a collapsed elementary school for two dozen more students who were still missing after a mile-wide tornado flattened a suburb south of Oklahoma City. The storm cut a swath of devastation more 30 kilometres long. It ran through the city of Moore, a community of about 55,000, destroying ...
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Diesel tax exemption further extended
The cabinet has extended the term of the diesel excise tax reduction of 0.005 baht per litre for another month, until June 30, deputy government spokesman Chalitrat Chantarubeksa said on Tuesday. The diesel excise tax reduction was due to end on May 31. The tax waiver on the fuel aims at lowering the cost of living, Mr Chalitrat said. He said Energy Minister Pongsak Raktapongpaisan told the ...
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Thailand urged to explore edible insect market to cope with global food demands
BANGKOK - Researchers say Thailand is showing the world how to respond to the global food crisis: by raising bugs for eating. The United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization released a study and handbook Tuesday on what they call 'six-legged livestock' -- edible bugs and worms that can help meet global food demand that is expected to grow 60 per cent by 2050. The agency ...
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Thai police seize 4.49 million meth tablets in Bangkoks largest meth bust ever
BANGKOK - Thai police have seized 4.49 million methamphetamine pills found in an apartment in the largest meth bust ever in Bangkok. Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubumrung said Tuesday the tablets and 60 kilograms (132 pounds) of crystal meth were smuggled from Myanmar. He said they were destined for sales in the capital city and nearby provinces. The value of the drugs, hidden in dozens of ...
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US Senate committee accuses Apple of large-scale tax avoidance
Washington - A US Senate committee accused Apple Inc of running a complex web of offshore business interests to avoid paying billions of dollars in income taxes, saying the technology giant was "among America's largest tax avoiders." The committee is to hold a hearing Tuesday to highlight Apple's tax avoidance strategies. Company chief Tim Cook was expected to testify. In ...
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Oil price falls toward $96 per barrel
The price of oil retreated toward $96 per barrel Tuesday as investors waited for the Federal Reserve's latest views on the U.S. economy.Benchmark crude for June delivery was down 28 cents to $96.43 per barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract gained 69 cents to close at $96.71 on Monday.On Wednesday, Fed chairman Ben ...
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NACC asks Thaksin to back up graft claim
The National AntiCorruption Commission (NACC) issued a statement Tuesday asking former premier Thaksin Shinawatra to reveal details of his claim, made on Sunday night, that an NACC official offered to help him win a court case in exchange for money in 1999. "Thaksin Shinawatra claimed that 'someone from ...
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Gold prices up Bt400 today
Volatility remained in the local gold market, as local gold prices were adjusted six times today for a net increase of Bt400 per baht weight. Yesterday, the net increase in local gold prices was Bt200. After today's changes, gold bar is sold at Bt19,550 while gold ornament at ...
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OBEC to meet public over small schools
The Office of Basic Education Commission (Obec) Tuesday established a joint committee to handle small schools in collaboration with local communities. The committee comprises academics, representatives from government agencies, small schools, the Council of Alternative Education, community organisations, and local administrative bodies. Education Minister Phongthep Thepkanjana has agreed to ...
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Wall around failed rice scheme starting to leak
Most people still know little or nothing about the rice pledging scheme, with the actual details fiercely guarded by a handful of officials at the Commerce Ministry, including Commerce Minister Boonsong ...
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Thaksin B10m rewards for arsonists
Fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra says a 10 million baht reward is waiting for each person giving information which leads to the arrest of the people who set fire to CentralWorld shopping complex in Bangkok at the end of the April-May 2010 political violence, according a message posted on his Twitter page. "Last night after I announced that I will reward the person who can ...
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Tepid Thai growth deepens Asian slowdown fears
Thailand's economy grew more slowly than expected in the first three months of this year Adds to a slew of recent disappointing data from other Asian economies Thai economy contracted by 2.2 per cent seasonally adjusted from the previous quarter Result of faltering Chinese, eurozone, and US demand as well as a strong ...
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Bangkok’s reputation under threat
Bangkok has long-been the site of political instability for the country, but this has rarely escalated into full-scale violence, now as talks between government and protests breakdown, and acts of violence increase, the city faces a difficult situation.
There is currently a days-long standoff between the government and anti-government protestors who claim the present government headed by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejajjiva was supported by the military when they came to power fifteen months ago. Read more
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