Category: News

Indonesian authorities struggled on Thursday to get aid to thousands of evacuees displaced by a deadly earthquake in western Java, as rain-triggered landslides and difficult mountainous terrain hampered the efforts of rescue teams.   Monday’s 5.6-magnitude earthquake in the town of Cianjur, about 75 km (50 miles) south of the capital Jakarta, killed at least […]

FIFA has threatened to suspend broadcast rights for World Cup 2022 football matches in Thailand after it was discovered that audiences in two neighbouring countries can view the Thai transmissions, even though the broadcast rights for their countries have not been purchased.   According to the Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT), FIFA has demanded that […]

Two air quality monitoring stations will be set up, in addition to the existing four in Chiang Mai province, to monitor smoke and dust from forest fires, which are expected to begin sooner than in previous years.   Director of the Environment and Pollution Control Office in Chiang Mai, Pradit Seesai, said today (Wednesday) that […]

Thai researchers and innovators shone at the Seoul International Invention Fair 2022 (SIIF) by winning two grand and three special prizes, Government Spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri said today (Wednesday).   A team of researchers from King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, led by Assistant Professor Dr. Nattapol Lerkkasemsan, was awarded the Grand Prize for the team’s […]

At least one police officer was killed and ten others injured by a car bomb at a police apartment block in Mueang district of Thailand’s restive southern province of Narathiwat at around noon today (Tuesday).   Initial reports say that a man, dressed as a police officer, drove a pickup truck into the compound of […]

Police in Bangkok have detained an exiled Chinese dissident who staged a lone street protest against Chinese leader Xi Jinping inspired by the “bridge man” protest in Beijing last month, RFA has learned.   Veteran rights activist Li Nanfei, who has been stranded in Thailand for several years despite being a United Nations-registered refugee, was […]

Divers have successfully retrieved the remains of an 18-year-old Thai man, who accidently fell from the pillion of a jet-ski into the lake at the Srinagarind Dam in Kanchanaburi province on October 24th.   With the help of an underwater drone, attempts, which began at 9am yesterday (Sunday), to recover the body from the bottom […]