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Wed, 08 Dec 2021 16:16:00 +0700
Joint business group sees GDP growth next year 3%-4.5%
The country’s leading joint-business group on Wednesday said it expects gross domestic product growth in 2022 to reach as high as 4.5%, in line with global recovery.

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 15:53:00 +0700
'Hi-so' businessman charged with B36m swindle
A man who posed as a high-society businessman has been arrested for allegedly cheating a woman beauty surgeon out of 36 million baht, Crime Suppression Division (CSD) commander Pol Maj Gen Montree Theskhan said.

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 15:30:00 +0700
Thailand detects 2 more potential Omicron cases
Thailand has detected two more possible Omicron cases, two Thai women returning from Nigeria, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said on Wednesday.

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 15:27:00 +0700
Prosecutors blunder in rush to announce Premchai sentencing
The Office of the Attorney General was in such a hurry to spread the news of tycoon Premchai Karnasuta's sentencing in the "black leopard case", they called a rushed press conference and gave out the wrong information.

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 14:45:00 +0700
20 Bangladesh students sentenced to death for brutal murder
DHAKA - Bangladesh sentenced 20 university students to death on Wednesday for the brutal 2019 murder of a young man who criticised the government on social media.

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 13:07:00 +0700
One killed in farm truck, 18-wheeler collision
NAKHON RATCHASIMA: The driver of an e-taen farm truck was killed in a collision with a trailer truck in Chok Chai district on Wednesday morning.

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:58:00 +0700
Sealand: the 'micronation' defying the UK and Covid
SEALAND: It's a hulking metal-and-concrete platform in the North Sea that has been run as an independent micronation in defiance of the UK government for the last 54 years. But even on Sealand, some 11 kilometres off the coast of southeast England, v...

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:50:00 +0700
Supreme Court sentences Premchai to 3 years 2 months in prison
KANCHANABURI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday sentenced construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta to a prison term of three years and two months for hunting in Thungyai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary nearly four years ago.

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:45:00 +0700
Top WHO, US scientists say Omicron no worse than other virus variants
GENEVA: The Omicron variant appears to be no worse than other coronavirus strains, top scientists from the WHO and the United States told AFP, while cautioning that more research is needed to judge its severity.

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:45:00 +0700
Vietnam gives longest ever jail term for trading rhino horn: NGO
HANOI: A rhino horn trader has been sentenced to 14 years in jail, the longest ever prison term a Vietnamese court has handed down for the crime, a local conservation group said Wednesday.



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