Tag: Thailand
Thailand Warns Of War With Cambodia As 138,000 Flee Fighting
Thailand’s acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai warned Friday that cross-border clashes with Cambodia that have uprooted more than 130,000 people “could develop into war”, as [more…]
Thailand, Cambodia Clash With Jets, Rockets In Deadly Border Row
Thailand launched air strikes on Cambodian military targets on Thursday as Cambodia fired rockets and artillery, killing at least 11 civilians, in a dramatic escalation [more…]
Thailand To Test Disaster Alerts After Quake Criticism
Thailand will conduct tests of a cellphone disaster alert system, senior officials said on Wednesday, after criticism that no alarm was sent after last month’s [more…]
Myanmar Quake Victim Rescued After 5 Days
Rescue workers watch as heavy machinery clears the rubble at the site of an under-construction building collapse in Bangkok on March 30, 2025, two days [more…]
Rescue Hopes Fading Three Days After Deadly Myanmar Quake
Rescuers search for survivors trapped in the collapsed Sky Villa Condominium building in Mandalay on March 29, 2025, a day after an earthquake struck central [more…]
NDLEA Arrests Thai Woman with Illicit Drugs at Lagos Airport
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has detained a 24-year-old Thai woman for prosecution after she was caught with prohibited substances at the Murtala [more…]
Thai PM Declares Millions In Watches, Bags Among $400m Assets
Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra holds a handbag as she arrives to attend the gala dinner during the 44th and 45th Association of Southeast Asian [more…]
Thailand Returnee Arrested with N3.1 Billion Heroin at Lagos Airport; NDLEA Intercepts N22.7 Billion Worth of Opioids at Lekki, Apapa, and Onne Seaports
In a renewed crackdown on transnational drug cartels, NDLEA operatives at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in have arrested a Thailand returnee Oguejiofor Nnaemeka Simon Peter [more…]
More Than 20 Children Die In Thai School Bus Fire
Rescue workers and firefighters surround a burnt-out bus that was carrying students and teachers on the outskirts of Bangkok on October 1, 2024. (Photo by [more…]
Paetongtarn Shinawatra 37 Becomes Thailand’s Prime Minister
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, known by her nickname ‘Ung Ing’: new Prime Minister of Thailand Her father was ousted from power by a military coup [more…]
