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OAG to demand Buriram local administration for 60 million baht compensation

The Office of the Auditor General (OAG) is demanding the Buriram provincial administration to return 60 million baht state budget after finding the administration misspent the fund to support a local football association in the past three years.OAG sec…

Ayutthaya farmers welcome plan to drain water into their farmland

Farmers in Ayutthaya have welcomed the plan of the Royal Irrigation Department to drain excess water from dams into their farmland.Mr Wichien Puanglamchiak, honorary president of Thai Farmers Association, said on Tuesday that the farmland was already i…

UPDATE: At least thirteen drowned and several missing in boat accident in Chao Phraya river

At least thirteen people drowned and about ten people went missing after a double-deck boat carrying about 100 passengers from Nonthaburi to Ayutthaya for an annual Islamic religious ceremony collided with a dike in the Chao Phraya river near Wat Sanam…

Extensive flooding in North from Rai depression

“Rai” tropical depression has dissolved but it created havoc in vast areas of the country’s north and northeastern regions.Massive downpours unleashed by the storm have inundated several provinces in the northern part.Hardest hit by flood is Sukhothai….

General Chalermchai appointed the new army strongman

General Chalermchai Sitthisart, the assistant army-commander-chief, has been appointed the new army commander-in-chief to replace General Teerachai Narkvanich who is due to retire at the end of this month.General Chalermchai is among 798 high-ranking m…

NBTC to issue regulation banning media from showing images of suspects in the media

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission will soon be asked by the Justice Ministry and the Department for the Protection of Rights and Liberties to come up with a regulation prohibiting the broadcast media from showing the images of…