Category: Thailand

  • Police armed attack drill sends temple monks fleeing

    Police armed attack drill sends temple monks fleeing

    NAKHON RATCHASIMA – Monks and novices fled from a temple in terror and hundreds of children were hurredly evacuated from a kindergarten as police staged an unannounced emergency response drill simulating an armed intruder on Monday.

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  • Far South violence continues, but reduced

    Far South violence continues, but reduced

    Dissidents struck again in the southern border province of Pattani late Sunday night, bombing and burning a municipal office, in the wake of a storm of violence in the far South on Saturday night. 

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  • Fuelling Thai energy with trash

    Fuelling Thai energy with trash

    Thai energy authorities are stepping up efforts to promote a waste‑to‑energy idea that could transform plastic waste into oil through a process known as pyrolysis.

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  • Rare B10 coin sells for B2.5m in first online auction

    Rare B10 coin sells for B2.5m in first online auction

    Thailand's first electronic rare coin auction on Monday featured a 10-baht circulation coin from 1990 that went under the hammer for 2.5 million baht.

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  • Army plays down attacks

    Army plays down attacks

    A coordinated wave of 51 attacks across Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala may have been launched to discredit state officials and retaliate against a crackdown on illicit trade, Fourth Army Area commander Lt Gen Norathip Phoynok says.

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  • Chinese durian lovers rejoice as new rail routes bring supply surge and lower prices

    Chinese durian lovers rejoice as new rail routes bring supply surge and lower prices

    SHANGHAI – Not long ago, eating a whole durian was a splurge for many Chinese households, with the fruit's demanding storage and transport requirements helping to keep prices high.

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