Thailand's strict laws protect King Bhumibol from critique
Business Day
The January edition of UK-based international current affairs magazine the Economist has been banned in Thailand, amids local indignation over its reporting of the royal Thai family.
The Economist's Thai distributor stopped Friday's issue of The Economist - which carries an article concerning an Australian writer who was arrested for defaming the Thai monarchy.
In Decmber 2008 another edition was banned because of an article questioning the Thai monarch's role in public life....... (read more)
BANGKOK, Sept 30 - Residents near Suvarnabhumi international airport and affected by the noise problem caused by aircraft landings and take-offs are monitoring closely on the progress of resolving the problem under the leadership by a tripartite committee formed earlier in September.
Aid residents' leader Wanchart Manathammasombat said residents living near the airport, located in Bangkok's neighboring province of Samut Prakan, would watch the outcomes of the next few meetings between the...... (read more)
NEW YORK, Sept 29 - Stressing that Thailand will hold a general election December 23, Prime Minister Gen. Surayud Chulanont said that many national leaders, including the countries of the European Union (EU), now better understand that Thailand is moving toward the democratic system through the process of democratic participation in elections.
Speaking during his recorded weekly television programme while attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York and broadcast in Thailand...... (read more)
BANGKOK, Feb 9 - City residents are expected to spend some Bt1 billion in this year's Valentine's Day with a range of businesses set to benefit from the celebration of love, according to the Kasikorn
Research Centre.
The leading think tank surveyed anticipated spending behaviour for this year's Valentine's Day, from February 1-5 with a random sample of youth, students, and young adults who just have started their life
careers from age 13 to 25 years.
Kasikorn projected that the amount...... (read more)
Bangkok, Feb 8: Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said Thursday that the troubled region of southern Thailand could become a breeding ground for Islamic terrorists and other extremists.
Syed Hamid Albar said terrorist groups could seek to build bases in Thailand's restive south, where more than 2,000 people have died since the insurgency flared up in January 2004.
He did not name the groups but analysts have said that operatives of the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah could...... (read more)
Hongkong Feb 6: More than one third of sexual harassment victims in Hong Kong offices are men but most are too embarrassed to report their ordeals.
A survey by the territory's Civic Party and Equal Opportunities Commission today found that 45% of office workers interviewed believed that sexual harassment took place in their office at least occasionally.
In a study of 423 workers, nearly one in four employees said they had suffered sexual harassment themselves and of those, more than one...... (read more)
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