Thai Police Arrest Russian and Uzbekistani Wanted by FBI for Bt1 Billion...
Olga Komova, 25, of Uzbekistan (left) and Dmitry Ukrainsky, 44, a Russian national, shown at a media conference after being arrested at the request of the FBI. . . BANGKOK – The Royal Thai Police have...
View ArticleStorms Causes Flooding and Damage Homes in Chiang Saen
A truck moves cautiously along a flooded road in Chiang Saen district of Chiang Rai – Photo from Ruamduay Chuaykan . . CHIANG RAI – Over night storms have caused flooding of homes and farmland, runoff...
View ArticleThai Police Detain Wife of British Author and Critic Andrew Marshall
Noppawan Bunluesilp arrives at a police station in Bangkok with her three-year-old son. . . BANGKOK – Police raided the Bangkok home of a British journalist’s wife and questioned her for several hours...
View ArticleIndian Air Force AN-32 Plane Carrying 29 Passengers Goes Missing Over Bay of...
The AN-32 aircraft took off from the southern city of Chennai at 8.30 a.m. and was flying over the water to the city of Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. . . NEW DELHI – The Indian air...
View ArticleIranian Passport Forgery Suspect Extradited Back to Thailand from Malaysia
Sayed Ramin Pakneiad, a key suspect in a passport forgery case, escorted by officers from the Department of Special Investigation and staff of the Office of the Attorney General. BANGKOK –...
View ArticleDrunken Australian’s Passengers Start Brawl on Flight to Thailand
Six Australian’s were escorted off the plane in Bali for a drunken brawl. . . BALI – A flight from Sydney to Thailand was diverted to Indonesia to off load a group drunken Australian traveling...
View ArticleJet-Setting Designer Monk Arrested in the United States
Wirapol Sukphol aboard a private jet, brandishing a designer bags and sunglasses . . BANGKOK – Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) chief Paisit Wongmuang said on Friday that jet...
View ArticleChinese Scientists Plan Clinical Tests with Crispr Gene-Editing Tool
Associate Prefessor Huang Junjiu, also a gene-function researcher, makes experiments at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, capital of south China’s Guangdong Province . . BEIJING – Scientists in...
View ArticleNew Reaserch Links Alcohol to Seven Types of Cancer
Drinking alcohol has been routinely linked to cancer of the oropharynx, larynx, esophagus, liver, colon, rectum and, in women, the breast. . If there was ever a research area to inspire confusion in...
View ArticleBeggars in Thailand Face Arrest as New Begging Law Comes into Force July 28
Beggars, both Thais and foreign, will face arrests if they continue to beg. . . BANGKOK – Commencing on July 28,2016 beggars in Thailand will face arrests and deportation if they are foreigners and...
View ArticleMae Fah Luang Airport Pushes for Northern Andaman Flight Route
Air Plane from China Eastern Airlines loads at Airport. . . CHIANG RAI – Mae Fah Luang international airport director Itthiphol Boonari, organized a seminar to push forward a plan to connect an Upper...
View ArticleWanted Interpol Human Trafficking suspect Nigora Akhmedova Nabbed in Bangkok
Human trafficking suspect Nigora Akhmedova being taken for a media briefing at the Immigration Bureau in Bangkok on Saturday.(Photo by Patipat Janthong) . . BANGKOK – Police in Bangkok have arrested...
View ArticleASEAN Deadlocked on South China Sea after Cambodia Backs China
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (L) and Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen . . VIENTIANE – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) failed to find common ground on maritime disputes in the South...
View ArticleChina Debuts the AG-600 the World’s Largest Amphibious Aircraft
The AVIC TA-600, also known as AG-600, is a large amphibious flying boat that is being designed and built in China by the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC). . . ZHUHAI – China’s official...
View ArticleChiang Saen Shipping Heavily Hit by Closure of Myanmar’s Sob Luay Port
Hundreds of cargo ships from China and Laos are anchored at the port in Bokeo province in Laos and the first Chiang Saen Port . . CHIANG RAI – Ms. Pakaimat Vierra Deputy Chairman of Chiang Rai’s...
View ArticleSyrian Refugee Blows Himself Up Wounding 15 People in Germany
Police examining the scene of the attack at the Ansbach festival . . ANSBACH, Germany – A failed asylum-seeker from Syria blew himself up and wounded 15 people after being turned away from an open-air...
View ArticleWikileaks Emails Prove Democtratic Party Was Conspiring Against Bernie Sanders
Wikileaks Reveals DNC Had Hillary Clinton Moles Inside The Bernie Sanders Campaign . . WASHINGTON DC– WikiLeaks released over 20,000 emails on Friday allegedly sent from the accounts of U.S....
View ArticleThai Police Charge Two Eight-Year-Old Girls for Tearing Voters List
The two girls appearing before Thai police. Officers said rules required charges to be filed even though the girls will not be punished. . . BANGKOK – Police in Thailand have charged two 8-year-old...
View ArticleJen’s English Tips – Time as a Countable and Uncountable Noun
Time as a Countable and Uncountable Noun The word time has both countable and uncountable uses. When we talk about the amount of time (number of hours/days etc.) required to complete something, time...
View ArticleThailand’s Immigration Chief Targets Corrupt Officials and Sham Marriages
Pol Lt Gen Nathathorn Prousoontorn, head of the Police Immigration Bureau, says corrupt officers are protecting the transnational criminals he is after, under his policy of “Good guys in, bad guys...
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