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  • Thailand’s prostitution laws out of step with reality

    Thailand’s prostitution laws out of step with reality

    Despite firm denials that prostitution is a ‘thing’ in Thailand and the high-level narrative that prostitution in the Land of Smiles is just an outdated type-cast, the evidence to the contrary remains obvious, in plain sight, any night of the week. Yesterday a “Review of the prevention and suppression of prostitution laws project” seminar was held at the Thammasat University Tha Prachan campus which aims to formalise and zone sex-related activities in Thailand. The report recommends the country’s sex industry be controlled under the authority of the Department of Local Administration.

  • Roi Et tractor driver injured after sedan embeds itself in the driver’s cabin

    Roi Et tractor driver injured after sedan embeds itself in the driver’s cabin

    PHOTOS: Asok Jaturapak Piman Rescue Foundation A tractor driver has sustained injuries after colliding with a sedan in Roi Et in north-eastern Thailand.

  • Visa run to Penang – a personal experience in Thailand (2019)

    Visa run to Penang – a personal experience in Thailand (2019)

    This story was one person’s experience of the visa process in Penang.

  • Red swimming flags out at Koh Hong in Krabi

    Red swimming flags out at Koh Hong in Krabi

    Red flags have been dusted off and set up along the beach at Koh Hong in Ao Luek, Krabi today. In an unrelated story, dead fish have also been found along a beach in Ao Nang, Krabi. National park officers at Mu Koh Hong in Krabi have planted the red flags along the beach to warn swimmers not to go into the water because of strong winds and waves washing in from the south-west.

  • Multi-billion baht budget for Bangkok Metropolitan Administration

    Multi-billion baht budget for Bangkok Metropolitan Administration

    Bangkok Council has approved a multi-billion baht budget for the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) for 2020. The budget was approved during a meeting in the second extraordinary session of the council for 2019 after BMA Governor Aswin Kwanmuang proposed the budget bill to the chamber. The bill requests 83 billion baht for fixed expenditures for the Fiscal Year 2020 and 398.92 million baht for commercial expenditures. Before the approval, the governor reported the BMA’s financial status to the Bangkok Council as of April 30

  • Complaints made over 41 pro-Junta coalition MPs over their alleged media shares

    Complaints made over 41 pro-Junta coalition MPs over their alleged media shares

    Just as it appeared the dust was settling on the fractious formation of a new parliament for Thailand, more than 40 MPs of the pro-junta bloc are now targeted in cases related to media shareholding after their names were submitted to the Constitutional Court.  Should these MPs be suspended or disqualified, the pro-junta coalition’s narrow Lower House majority could vanish and it will be unable to pass any legislation, including the national budget bill. Newly appointed Lower House speaker Chuan Leekpai yesterday submitted a petition with the Constitutional Court asking it to investigate if 41 members of the chamber could have qualification issues over their alleged media share holdings.

  • Motorbike passenger dies, crushed under truck in Bangkok

    Motorbike passenger dies, crushed under truck in Bangkok

    PHOTOS: Phetkasem Foundation A motorbike passenger has died after colliding with a pickup truck and then being crushed by a passing truck in Bangkok. Police News report that Kannayao Police were notified of the incident on Ramintra Road last night.

  • Formal complaint made about Phuket OrBorTor chief for inaction over environmental issues

    Formal complaint made about Phuket OrBorTor chief for inaction over environmental issues

    Danai Yardee and Chamroon Kerndum, representing a group of Phuket environmental groups, have made a formal complaint against Cherng Talay President Ma ‘Ann Samran. The complaint calls for investigation into the construction of an anti-erosion sea wall at Surin Beach, unfinished wastewater treatment plants and alleged tampering of evidence.

  • Malaysian diplomat visits Thailand’s deep South to resume peace talks

    Malaysian diplomat visits Thailand’s deep South to resume peace talks

    PHOTO: Tan Sri Abdul Rahim bin Mohammad Noor arrives for talks with Lt-Gen Pornsak Poonsawat, commander of Thailand’s Fourth Army Region – Thai PBS The nominated Malaysian facilitator to continue ongoing peace talks between the Thai government and Mara Patani, an umbrella organisation for Thailand’s separatist groups in the Deep South, wraps up a two day visit to the region today. The visit was the first by Malaysia’s former police chief, Tan Sri Abdul Rahim bin Mohammad Noor, since he was appointed to the post.

  • Pattaya International Music Festival 2019 – Make it a date

    Pattaya International Music Festival 2019 – Make it a date

    This year the annual Pattaya Music Festival takes place on June 14 and 15 along Pattaya Beach Road, Pattaya. Dates were postponed to June, instead of March as in previous years, so that the event is held as part of the 60 th  anniversary of Pattaya tourism. Started in 2002, the Pattaya International Music Festival is a celebration of music