Tag: Bangkok

Thousands of Thai protesters return to streets after police clashes

  by Thanaporn PROMYAMYAI and Lisa MARTIN Agence France Presse Thousands of Thai pro-democracy protesters massed in multiple locations across Bangkok Saturday, defying an emergency decree banning gatherings for the third consecutive day after confrontations saw riot police use water cannon on peaceful demonstrators. But the escalation in police tactics has not cowed the burgeoning youth-led movement, which is demanding the resignation of a premier first brought to power in a military coup and reform […]

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Footage shows Bangkok bombing in mall minutes from ASEAN summit

  BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Footage emerged Saturday of the moment a bomb exploded in a Bangkok mall as the city hosted a major summit, the device apparently hidden inside a cuddly toy animal. There were nine successful or attempted bomb blasts on Friday throughout Bangkok which left four wounded as the city hosted a regional summit attended by top diplomats, including US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Footage […]

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Bangkok governor appeals for help reducing toxic smog

BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Bangkok’s governor on Thursday appealed for help to battle the toxic smog shrouding the capital as the deployment of drones left Bangkok residents unimpressed. The city has been blanketed in a murky haze for weeks, inciting criticism from the public over the government’s response, which has veered from playing down the problem to abruptly shutting schools. Authorities have seeded clouds to provoke rain, sprayed overpasses with water to catch micro-pollutants, and […]

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Hundreds of schools to shut as toxic smog cloaks Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Toxic smog forced Bangkok authorities to issue an unprecedented order to shut nearly 450 schools on Wednesday, as authorities struggle to manage a pollution crisis that has stirred widespread concern. The Thai capital has been shrouded in murky haze for weeks, forcing residents to don masks and sparking social media criticism of the uneven response by the government. Reasons given for the lingering pall include exhaust from traffic, unfettered construction, the […]

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Thailand to make it rain as pollution chokes Bangkok

THAILAND, Bangkok (AFP) — Thailand is set to deploy rainmaking planes to seed clouds in an effort to tackle the pall of pollution that has shrouded the capital in recent weeks. The weather modification technique involves dispersing chemicals into the air to aid cloud condensation, which should in theory result in rain. “The Department of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation… expects the rainmaking to be done tomorrow (Tuesday) but it depends on wind and humidity […]

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Planning under way for Trump’s military parade: Dunford

BANGKOK, Thailand ( AFP) – The US military’s top officer said Wednesday that planning is underway after President Donald Trump ordered a military parade, an unconventional demand that has drawn comparisons to sabre rattling more commonly associated with autocrats. “I am aware of the president’s request and we are in the initial planning stages to meet the president’s direction,” General Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters during a visit to the Thai capital […]

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Know more about the ASEAN

AS ASEAN celebrates its 50th anniversary, let’s look back a history to know more about the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). ASEAN was created on 8 August 1967 when five leaders – the Foreign Ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand – sat down together in the main hall of the Department of Foreign Affairs building in Bangkok, Thailand and signed a document. “By virtue of that document, the Association of Southeast […]

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Bomb wounds 20 at Bangkok military hospital: police

Map showing recent Thailand bombing   BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) – A small bomb struck a Bangkok military hospital on Monday wounding more than 20 people, police said, three years to the day since the army seized power of the politically unstable kingdom. Thailand remains starkly divided since the May 22, 2014 coup, but dissent has broadly been silenced by a military with sweeping security powers. It was not immediately clear who was behind the blast […]

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20 injured by bomb at Bangkok military hospital: police

BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — A small bomb struck a Bangkok military hospital on Monday wounding more than 20 people, police said, three years to the day since the army seized power of the politically unstable kingdom. “From the initial report it was a bomb… there are more than 20 people injured,” Deputy National Police Chief General Srivara Rangsibrahmanakul told reporters. “It was likely to be in a package,” Srivara said, adding that “battery and wires” were […]

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President Duterte on De Lima: “Napakakapal ng mukha”

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday called out the usual personalities in his speech before the Filipino community in Thailand, as he wrapped up his 3-day visit in the neighboring Asian country. “Wag kayo maniwala dyan. Basura ni..kilala ba ninyo si Trillanes?” Duterte asked the thousands of Filipinos who had trooped to a hotel in Bangkok to see the popular President. Upon hearing Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s name, the crowd, who at one […]

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Top aide latest Thai royal official to fall from grace

BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — A senior member of the personal security retinue of Thailand’s new king has been fired and stripped of his titles, the palace has announced. Air Vice Marshal Chitpong Thongkum, the latest royal official to publicly fall from grace, was accused of improperly using his connections to King Maha Vajiralongkorn a statement published in the Royal Gazette on Sunday said. “His army rank has been withdrawn and his royal decorations have been […]

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Grieving Thailand to begin king’s official mourning

by Anusak KONGLANG / Thanaporn PROMYAMYAI BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Massive crowds of black-clad Thais lined Bangkok’s streets Friday hoping to see King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s body borne to his palace, as the nation grieved for a monarch whose passing leaves the country facing an uncertain future. Bhumibol, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, passed away at 88 on Thursday after years of ill health, ending seven decades as a stabilising figure in a nation of deep political […]

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