Posts Tagged ‘ ministry ’

Troops and police at a checkpoint in front of the Ministry of Finance on Rama VI Road have arrested six men in a pickup truck for possessing guns and a quantity of ammunition, Bang Sue police said on Friday morning.
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It appears that the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) has taken the Emergency Decree one step further. Thaneerat Siripachana, Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology has told his staff to keep track of posting of images which depict violence from 9-10 April. Citizens are also not...
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Thanks to a reader for pointing out two recent stories on continuing and perhaps intensifying internet censorship. The first report is from NNT ( 10 April 2010 ) and states: “The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology has now been strictly curbing all defamatory internet contents that likely pose serious threat to national...
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Thirteen people were injured when red-shirts broke through security lines into the Thaicom station grounds on Friday, according to the Public Health Ministry's emergency unit.
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I already wondered for quite some time why so many of the status changes of municipalities haven’t been officially announced in the Royal Gazette, even though the actual administrative act by the Ministry of Interior did already take effect for several years by now. Processing some… Read full story > > > Written...
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2Bangkok.com reports it, among other high-profile English websites in Thailand, has received a letter from the Ministry of Culture. It advises that, owing to the political climate, creating April Fools’ Day news items might “cause misunderstanding” and that the ministry would initiate… Read full story > > > Written by: Saksith Saiyasombut. Discovered...
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Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Tuesday morning chaired the weekly cabinet meeting, held at the Ministry of Public Health amid tight security, reports said.
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The weekly cabinet meeting will be held on Tuesday at the Public Health Ministry in Nonthaburi province instead of at Government House to enesure there is no confrontation between ministers and red-shirt protesters, a spokesman for the government's peacekeeping operation command said on Monday.
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Thailand’s exports in February continued to grow considerably for the fourth consecutive month, boosted by an increased shipment of agricultural and industrial products of all categories, according to Commerce Minister Porntiva Nakasai. In terms of the baht, exports totaled Bt470.72 billion, up 16 per cent from the same month the year before Mrs...
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February exports were up by 23.15 per cent year-on-year to stand at US$14.40 billion, the Ministry of Commerce reported on Friday.
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A ransom for a five-year-old British boy kidnapped in Pakistan and freed this week was paid in Paris, Spain's interior ministry said Wednesday, adding five people have been detained. Authorities detained three people in Spain and two in France, the ministry said in a statement.
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The Thai Crisis Bozo Clown is compulsory here. A total of 46,377 people took part in the mass rally organised by the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) in Bangkok, the Ministry of Interior reported on Sunday evening. The figure was accumulated from the protest venues in Sanam Luang, Phan Fa...
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A total of 46,377 people took part in the mass rally organised by the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) in Bangkok, the Ministry of Interior reported on Sunday evening.
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The wages committee will not raise the minimum wage just because the Ministry of Commerce had reported last month’s inflation rate at 3.7 per cent, the chairman and labour permanent secretary Somchai Chumrat said on Wednesday.
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During the pass ten days, there are people lining up at the MOI migrant workers registration office and at the Ministry of Labour’s outlet for the “last” registration of migrant workers before the government will arrest unregistered one. This time the government want every migrants to undergo nationality verification. A friend told me that...
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Thai Minister of Foreign Affairs Kasit Piromya said Tuesday that the ministry is seeking to help the convicted Thai national and has submitted a request to Cambodian Foreign Ministry to permit Thai officials to meet the man who was sentenced to 20 years in jail for planting landmines along the Thai-Cambodian border.
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Korn, the alleged Finances Minister, in Bangkok Post on february 15: Korn: Ministry weighs reducing 50.1% stake Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij said the ministry was considering allowing private investors to hold a greater stake in THAI to help transform its status as a state enterprise, as well as reduce the government’s financial obligations....
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The travel industry considered her as the eminence grise at the Ministry of Tourism. Named as the Permanent Secretary for tourism and sports, Sasithara Pichaicharnnarong has been removed recently and named as an adviser to the Prime Minister. According to local newspapers, ongoing conflict with the current Minister Chumpol Silpa-archa came over the appointment...
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The pro-Thaksin United front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) has changed its today’s rally target from the air force headquarters to the Ministry of Defence, a source at UDD said on Tuesday morning.
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Democrat Party investigation : The TPI donation case against the “ Democrat Party for having allegedly obtained unlawful donation and abused political party development fund ” has been delayed yet again (The Nation, 30 January 2009 ). Election Commission Chairman Apichart Sukhagganond said that case “ could not be...
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More Thai people are suffering from five chronic diseases - diabetes, high blood pressure, Ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular accident and chronic respiratory symptoms, the Ministry of Public Health reported on Sunday.
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The Public Health Ministry will continue to vaccinate pregnant women against the type A (H1N1) flue throughout the country except in Satun province where one foetus of a woman died, permanent secretary for public health Paijit Warachit said on Thursday.
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In front of the Ministry of Defence in Bangkok there is an open air museum of ancient cannons. What is most interesting here are not the guns themselves, but the fact that in 2004 someone decided it wasn’t a good idea to have the guns pointing directly at the Grand Palace. So, they...
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The Bangkok Post ( 15 January 2010 ) reports that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva continues to plug his new advisory board on the lese majeste law as being able to “create clarity.” He added: “I hope in not too long, perhaps a few months’ time, there will be clear guidance and a lot...
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Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Sunday that newly appointed Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit's main duty is to solve the alleged irregularities in the ministry's 86-billion-baht budget financed by the government's economic stimulus scheme.
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A few days ago PPT posted a review of Ministry of Information and Communications Technology and its censorship in 2009 . Now Wise Kwai has a post on film censorship in Thailand during 2009. Worth reading.
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The plan to issue another 50 to 80 billion baht government savings bonds in the first quarter of this year by the Ministry of Finance will not have any affect on the liquidity of the financial system, Suchada Kirakul, assistant governor at the Bank of Thailand (BoT) said on Tuesday.
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The cabinet has approved a plan to sell 150,000 tonnes of cassava starch to China as proposed by the Ministry of Commerce, Minister Porntiva Nakasai said on Tuesday.
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Thailand’s first population census was conducted in 1909 by the Ministry of Interior. Four subsequent censuses followed in 1919, 1929, 1937 and 1947. Since 1960, the National Statistical Office (NSO) has been responsible for undertaking population censuses every ten years under the 1952 Statistical Act (revised in 1965… Written by: Richard Barrow Read...
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London: Rupert Hamer, defence correspondent for the Sunday Mirror newspaper, has been killed in an explosion and another seriously injured, Britain's Ministry of Defence said on Sunday.
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