Artikel tagged “Asien”

  • Hundreds of diseased cats & dogs living in Bangkok animal shelter

    Hundreds of diseased cats & dogs living in Bangkok animal shelter

    PHOTOS: Watchdog Thailand Animal rights group Watchdog Thailand have shared photos of dismaying condition in Bangkok’s Prawet animal shelter.

  • Ex-Mitsubishi executives confess to bribing Thai port officials

    Ex-Mitsubishi executives confess to bribing Thai port officials

    PHOTO: Nikkei Asian Review Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems former executives, 63 year old Fuyuhiko Nishikida and 57 year old Yoshiki Tsuji, have confessed to bribing a Thai public servant to ensure smooth treatment of cargo through a southern port of Thailand. This follows the scandal surrounding the construction of a power plant in Thailand in 2013 and allegations made towards the executives in July of this year. Resulting in Mitsubishi striking a plea bargain due to bribery allegations.

  • Suphan Buri Governor believes kidnapping probably the motive – missing two year old

    Suphan Buri Governor believes kidnapping probably the motive – missing two year old

    by Wattanapol Matcha Suphan Buri Governor Nimit Wanchaithanawong has opened up with his personal reflections on the ongoing search saying that he suspected the two year old Burmese boy missing since last Monday was likely kidnapped. Suphan Buri is just north-west of Bangkok. The Governor say he believes the boy has been taken out of the area after a search mission involving 300 people through a 200 rai plantation over the weekend returned empty-handed. The missing boy, Sului Piew, was walking in Suwanwat Moo 9 village in tambon Sa Phang Lan of U-Thong district with his three year old sister eight days ago.

  • Thai business tycoon buys Fortune for $150 million

    Thai business tycoon buys Fortune for $150 million

    Photo: Fortune Chatchaval Jiaravanon, son of the executive chairman of Thailand’s biggest conglomerate (the Charoen Pokphand Group) and part of the richest family in Thailand has bought  Fortune for $150 million (4.8 billion baht).

  • Co-ordinated triple attack at Yala security bases

    Co-ordinated triple attack at Yala security bases

    Insurgents have initiated a triple attack at police and army targets. The attacks took place last night. In a near-simultaneous attack, insurgents in Yala province fired guns at a police station, a civilian defence post and an Army post

  • Orient Express luxury brand announces first hotel in Mahankhon

    Orient Express luxury brand announces first hotel in Mahankhon

    The King Power Mahanakhon Building in Bangkok, Thailand’s tallest, will have the world’s first Orient Express Hotel. At 78 storeys high, the Mahanakhon Building is currently the tallest building in Bangkok, pushing the slightly shorter Baiyoke Tower into second place.

  • Belgian hit-and-run victim urges driver to come forward

    Belgian hit-and-run victim urges driver to come forward

    An elderly Belgian woman has been injured in a hit and run in Chiang Mai and now recovering in the Chiang Mai Hospital. The 78 year old is urging the motorist who injured her to come forward and apologise.

  • Dog cloning service in China starts at 1.8 million baht

    Dog cloning service in China starts at 1.8 million baht

    PHOTOS: Reuters, Newsbook Meet Juice or “Guozhi” in Mandarin, a small one foot tall mongrel stray adopted from the streets turned into Chinese movie star. The nine year old canine actor was neutered at an early age and is unable to reproduce but as they say “the show must go on”. Introducing “Sinogene”, China’s first biotech company offering animal cloning services

  • Troops on stand-by to assist flooded southern provinces

    Troops on stand-by to assist flooded southern provinces

    PHOTO:  Thunder Road Reporters, Samui Deputy PM and defence minister Prawit Wongsuwan has ordered the three armed forces to head south with troops and equipment to help the areas hard hit by flooding. The Meteorological Department is warning southerners to brace for more to come. Gulf coast provinces from Chumpon to Songkhla have been battered with heavy rains for the past four days.

  • Foreigners will be allowed to serve as arbitrators – NLA votes

    The National Legislative Assembly (NLA) has voted to pass the draft amended Arbitration Act in its first reading which will allow foreigners to serve as arbitrators in Thailand. The NLA yesterday voted 139-0 with 2 abstentions to pass the bill amending the 2002 Arbitration Act in its first reading.