There are indications that Supoj Saplom is unusually wealthy, corrupt and has provided false information about his wealth, according to the National Anti-Corruption Commission's initial tentative conclusions.
A corridor to Canossa, I can't call it anything else. Every year I have to go to Immigration to extend my retirement visa.
Ning, my wife, is a creative creature. She has been busy for weeks designing Christmas cards that we send to all corners of the world every year. However, don't expect snowy landscapes, Christmas baubles, nativity scenes, Christmas trees or other Christmas clichés.
Yingluck Prime Minister Yingluck was admitted to Rama IX hospital on Monday night with suspected food poisoning. She suffered from diarrhoea, abdominal pain, nausea and fatigue. She had to let go of the weekly cabinet meeting on Tuesday and other activities scheduled for yesterday.
Prime Minister Yingluck still has the strong support of her constituents despite the wave of criticism over the government's floundering in tackling the floods.
From December 1 to 5, Bangkok will be doing a big cleaning. The accumulating waste is collected, rotting water is disinfected and mosquitoes are sprayed.
Several times I have written about contacts with the police. Mostly positive stories, on the one hand because they were just nice experiences, on the other hand as a counterweight to all the negative stories that throw you to death. But then the following happens.
Do you want to experience the most famous beach party in the world, the Full Moon Party in Thailand? Here you can read dates and locations for the Full Moon Party, Half Moon Party and Black Moon Party 2012.
Because he was not allowed to participate in the censure debate in parliament on Sunday, the colorful MP Chuvit Kamolvisit, leader of Rak Thailand (4 seats) and ex-owner of a number of massage parlors, only gave a press conference.
How happy I felt after reading the report published by the Social and Cultural Planning Office: 'Social State of the Netherlands 2011'.
The recent sentencing of a 61-year-old grandfather has brought the two much-used lese-majeste laws back into the national and international spotlight.
Souvenirs and other valuables worth half a million baht stolen from the Ayutthaya Elephant Kraal during the floods have been recovered by police. They were found in a home in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya. The owner of the home denied stealing them; they had come driving up according to him.
The capital of Thailand is easily accessible again. The flooding that swept parts of Bangkok and the surrounding area in recent weeks has eased and all major tourist attractions are passable. The travel advice to Bangkok was positively adjusted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs last week.
Ayutthaya's 130 historic sites have survived centuries of flooding, but this year's floods could prove fatal for a number of temples.
About the growing problem of unwanted teenage pregnancies in Thailand.
A hole of 2,5 meters has been made in the big bag barrier (a flood wall with sandbags of 30 tons) along the Vibhavadi-Rangsit road. The Flood Relief Operations Command, the crisis center of the government, decided to take this action under pressure from residents living north of the embankment. Earlier they had blocked Vibhavadi-Rangsit road and removed sandbags.
Because we still don't have internet in our apartment, the technician seems to have been washed away, I am forced to walk to the "shopping mall" Central Pin Klao that I deeply hate and go online in an establishment with wi-fi .
The planned large-scale face-lift of the old airport Don Mueang depends on the certainty that the airport will never again experience a flood, as it has been for a month now.
Heavy rain, high waves and strong winds hit several areas in the South on Friday. Numerous districts were flooded in Surat Thani, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Songkhla, Pattani, Phattalung, Yala and Narathiwat. Two people were killed in Yala.
The Bangkok Mass Transit Authority, the municipal public transport company, is resuming bus services on Phahon Yothin Road and Vibhavadi-Rangsit Road, using both regular and air-conditioned buses 29, 26, 555, 510 and 26.
