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October 28th, 2008 by admin

ASEAN meeting moved from Bangkok to Chiang Mai
Phnom Penh - Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong Sunday confirmed reports that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting set for Bangkok in December has been moved to the northern city of Chiang Mai amid political unrest. Hor Namhong was the first non-Thai ASEAN official to officially [...]

October 27th, 2008 by admin

Protesters protest planned listing of Beer Chang
BANGKOK: — Hundreds of people, including youth, demonstrated outside Thailand’s Stock Exchange of Thailand on Monday to protest plans by Beer Chang company to list its shares on the market.
Thai Beverage PLC, which brews Beer Chang, the country’s top seller, has applied for listing on the Stock Exchange of [...]

October 26th, 2008 by admin

Bmta Public Buses No Longer Stop In Suvarnabhumi Terminal, Backpackers please proceed to Bus Terminal via free shuttle
Backpackers favourite BMTA PUBLIC BUSES will no longer stop in Suvarnabhumi terminal from 1-Oct-2008. At the moment, some buses (like servive 551) do a stop at the airport terminal on the way to / from the Bus Terminal [...]

October 26th, 2008 by admin

Melamine scare, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ban products.
Bangkok - Thailand’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered a nationwide ban on the sale of three snack products imported from China and Malaysia after they were found to contain excessive levels of melamine, reports said Saturday. The banned items included Chinese-made Hajuku brand strawberry cream [...]

October 25th, 2008 by admin

Thailand named Best Tourist Country
Thailand has been voted as the World’s Best Tourist Country by Danish people and Danish tourism firms, a senior Thai tourism official said.
Manit Boonchim, director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand’s Stockholm office, said some 8,000 Danish people and representatives of Danish tourism firms voted Thailand as the best tourist country [...]