In Brief: Dengue cases spike in Thailand IRINnews web | BANGKOK, 28 July 2010 (IRIN) - Dengue has reached a five-year high in Thailand, with 41,136 cases and 38 deaths to 20 July, against 22,969 infections and 19 deaths in the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Public Health. | | Dengue fluctuates every year depending on mea...
Bomb wounds nine in wake of Thailand election The Christian Science Monitor Bangkok, Thailand | Thailand’s ruling party declared a comfortable victory Sunday in a closely watched by-election held in Bangkok under a state of emergency that has been imposed since April, when clashes between opposition ‘red shirt’ protesters and government forces killed nearly 90 people,...
Thailand ends emergency rule in 6 provinces, but not in Bangkok CNN | (CNN) -- The Thai government has ended emergency rule in six provinces, but not in Bangkok, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday. | Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva imposed it in April, shortly after Red Shirt anti-government demonstrators...
Thailand ends state of emergency in more provinces Zeenews Bangkok: Thailand's prime minister on Thursday ordered a state of emergency lifted in six provinces, but kept the decree in place in the capital Bangkok and nine other provinces. | Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva did not explain why the emergency de...
Australia to play Thailand in finals at U19 tourneys The Saigon Times Vietnam’s defender Pham Van Nam (L) fights for the ball with Stanojevic of Australia during their U19 AFF Cup football match at Thong Nhat Stadium in HCMC on Wednesday - Photo: Ba Chau HCMC – Australia will face Thailand in the finals of the Sout...
WN / Yolanda Leyba
Sugar trade's sweet spot turns sour in Thailand Herald Tribune | BANGKOK - Bangkok's ubiquitous street food vendors who feed millions of the Thai capital's residents each day are being hit by surging costs for sugar after a government failure ...
Sugar trade's sweet spot turns sour in Thailand The Boston Globe | BANGKOK-Bangkok's ubiquitous street food vendors who feed millions of the Thai capital's residents each day are being hit by surging costs for sugar after a government failure to...
Thailand likely to end emergency rule in six areas – minister Inquirer | BANGKOK – The Thai government is likely to lift emergency rule in six more provinces, but not Bangkok, because of easing concerns about possible political unrest, the defense minister said Thursday. | Prawit Wongsuwon said the strict laws were expe...
Emergency ruled ended in six more Thailand provinces BBC News Thai authorities have lifted a state of emergency in six more provinces, more than two months after ending mass protests in Bangkok. | PM Abhisit Vejjajiva said emergency rule would end in Chonburi, Ayutthaya, Nong Bua Lam Phu, Maha Sarakham, Mukdaha...
Thailand lifts state of emergency in more provinces The Star | BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's government lifted a state of emergency in six provinces on Thursday but said the special security law would remain in place in 10 others, including Bangkok, scene of a deadly bomb blast on Sunday. | "It will take effe...
Bomb in central Bangkok kills 1, wounds 10 The Star | BANGKOK (Reuters) - A bomb at a Bangkok bus stop killed one person and wounded at least 10 on Sunday after polls closed in a parliamentary by-election seen as a referendum on recent political unrest. | The bomb had been hidden near a trash bin at a bus stop on Ratchadumri Road in the heart of Bangkok's commercial district, an area occupied by tho...
Russian pianist accused of pedophilia in Thailand Herald Tribune | BANGKOK, Thailand - Internationally acclaimed Russian pianist and conductor Mikhail Vasillievich Pletnev has been charged with raping a 14-year-old boy in a Thai beach town, police said Wednesday. | Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev, the founder of the Russian National Orchestra, was charged Tuesday with rape and appearing in compromising photographs w...
