Bangkok Informer

After Yingluck’s speech in Mongolia, she faced criticism from many quarters with some critiquing what she said, but others just directed insults at her. The most prominent example being by well-known Thai cartoonist Chai Rachawat on his personal FB page. Image below: BP: First, on the wording of the insult. AFP translation (although the article [...]

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The Asia News Network has received more than 1,000 submissions for its logo contest that officially closed at midnight on Sunday, March 31. Full News here – NationMultimedia.com – Breakingnews

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In the last article, we talked about portfolio allocation recommendations as a guideline for investors. We recommended investing 55 per cent in risky assets (40 per cent in stocks, 10 per cent in gold and 5 per cent in oil) and 45 per cent in debt instruments. The last time, we gave details about the [...]

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Dithaporn Sasasamit, spokesperson for the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc), said yesterday that up to 5,899 Rohingya migrants had sneaked into Thailand on 48 occasions since last October. Full News here – NationMultimedia.com – National

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Piyaman Techapaiboon, president of the Tourism Council of Thailand, said that the Kingdom should expect more than 100,000 visitors from China and Hong Kong during the Chinese New Year in February. In an interview with the Bangkok Post, Paiyaman urged the Thai government to assign more immigration personnel to airports during the holiday in order [...]

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Members of the Thai business community directed their ire at the recent spate of 16 tax reforms approved yesterday, deeming them largely inadequate. The reforms were enacted in order to help small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) alleviate higher costs associated with the nationwide minimum wage law which went into effect on Jan. 1 of [...]

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The occasion of the His Majesty the King’s 85th birthday is a fitting opportunity to look back on the leading role he has played in the Kingdom’s sporting history, both as a lifelong exponent himself, and as a supporter and guide for Thai sport and its participants, from the grassroots through to the national level. [...]

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the best Bangkok video ever !!! Video Rating: 3 / 5

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Survey results released on the eve of US President Barack Obama’s arrival reveal that Thais have more faith in the American leader than in Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra or her predecessor. Full News here – NationMultimedia.com – Politics

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Police said they received a tip-off that a lot of yaba pills were being smuggled from northern Thailand   CHIANGRAI TIMES  – Thai police seized more than 1.7 million methamphetamine pills at a house in central province of Samut Sakhon, Bangkok Post online reported on Friday. Police seized the drug which have an estimated street [...]

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Locals and non-governmental organisations have urged the government to develop small and medium-sized dams instead of pushing for the Bt350-billion Kaeng Sua Ten dam, which they believe will not help prevent floods or drought, and instead destroy valuable teak forests and ecological systems. Full News here – NationMultimedia.com – National

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If you were a journalist and were “somehow” invited on a week-long “study-trip” sponsored by the Parliament and funded by taxpayers’ money – to England, France and Belgium – and which includes dining at a posh restaurant in Bloomsbury in London, a visit to the dreaming spires of Oxford, staying at the posh four-star Park [...]

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Plodprasob says results ‘satisfactory’ but more work to be done to sort out shortcomings Full News here – NationMultimedia.com – National

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By Kaewmala It’s bound to happen again – and again. That is, yet another scandal exposing tender feminine flesh and Thailand’s uneasy relationship with female breasts. Why, for all its peculiar mammophobia (the correct term is mastrophobia by the way), Thailand just can’t get enough of breasts, especially the bare kind. It’s an untreated national [...]

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By Saksith Saiyasombut On the Friday the 13th, when the Constitutional Court was about to deliver the verdict against the Thai government and their proposals to amend the constitution that was feared to throw the country into yet another political crisis, the Mental Health Department of the Public Health Ministry recommended all Thais “not to follow political news for [...]

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