Major award winners from left, Panipak Wongpattanakit, Kunlavut Vitidsarn, Atthaya Thitikul, Mai Klaharn, Srisaket Sor Rungvisai and Pongsaporn Suwitthayarak. (Photo by Thiti Wannamontha) Boxer Srisaket Sor Rungvisai beat golfer Ariya Jutanugarn for the Sports Authority of Thailand’s (SAT) best professional athlete of the year award […]
The messages coming from the men in uniform and those who helped them seize power are all positive. It makes democracy lovers such as myself feel a little more secure that after failing to deliver its promises for the past few years, the military government […]
Traffic police start using a new form of tickets on Sunday. (Photo by Krit Promsaka na Sakolnakorn) Traffic police nationwide will start using a new form of tickets on Sunday. The change is part of the Police Ticket Management (PTM) project, said Pol Maj Gen […]
As the parties met to rubber-stamp the accord struck the previous day, Herbert Kickl, the FPOe’s secretary general and Austria’s next interior minister, said he had “very, very good feeling”. “Nobody has anything to fear,” Kickl said, one of six FPOe ministers in the new […]
Noranontha Norakamin, 44, offers an apology at Wat Arun on Saturday as Pol Maj Gen Surachet Hakpal, deputy commissioner of the Tourist Police, looks on. (Tourist police photo) A Thai tourist guide has been publicly shamed, charged and had her licence revoked after posting pictures […]
The accord between Sebastian Kurz’s People’s Party (OeVP) and the anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPOe) announced late Friday will see Kurz, 31, become chancellor and also the world’s youngest leader. “We are happy that we have reached this agreement. Tomorrow (Saturday) we will inform the president […]
Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam has brushed aside talk that the regime has given a signal for changes to be made to the organic law governing political parties in order to delay the general election and retain the regime’s grip […]
To prevent coastal erosion, Bang Khunthian district has come up with a novel idea to use electricity poles to protect the coast. Courtesy of Bang Khunthian district Having removed 800 electricity poles from Bangkok’s roads, City Hall has hit on the idea of turning these no […]
File – A policeman at Lat Phrao station looks at motorcycles including those confiscated from drink drivers during previous New Year holidays. (Photo by Apichit Jinakul) Police have vowed to strictly enforce traffic regulations and are considering impounding vehicles of suspected drunk drivers in attempts […]
A police officer looks at a speed camera. Plans are under deliberation to buy state-of-the-art cameras as currently used in the UK and the US. (Pattanapong Hirunard) Road safety experts have voiced their support for a plan to buy state-of-the-art speed cameras, as used in the […]
