Reprieve for Loxley on security
Airports of Thailand (AOT) yesterday gave security company Loxley-ICTS Consortium a month to improve its Suvarnabhumi Airport operations.
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Pay rise for officials in CNS
About 120 military officers working for the Council for National Security got a controversial pay rise yesterday.
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South: Man shot dead in front of wife, kids
A female police officer narrowly escaped death yesterday after a bomb hidden underneath her pickup truck went off, while two young men were shot dead elsewhere in the deep South.
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Movies on mental trauma can 'boost understanding'
Relatives of psychiatric patients should watch films that deal with mental disorders to better understand conditions family members suffer, the Mental Health Department has advised.
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Horrific Songkran crash
Seven people, including two elderly women and a child, were killed and 18 others injured when a pick-up truck taking workers from Bangkok to Si Sa Ket, overturned after a front tyre burst in Surin's Prasat district, police said yesterday.
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EXTRADITION CASE
Court refuses Hanoi's request, releases Ly Tong
Appeal court sees action by dissident as a political act and not criminal
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Gay groups seek change to rape laws
Gay-rights advocates yesterday called for laws to cover the rape and sexual assault of homosexuals and transgender victims.
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Buri Ram uproar over TAO
About 100 people in Buri Ram's Krasang district blocked members of the Muang Phai Tambon Administration Organisation from leaving on a tour of the South - because they allegedly ignored a tap-water crisis.
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Manual to help kids addicted to PC games
The child mental health institute has come up with a VCD manual to help parents deal with children addicted to computer games and the Internet.
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Mobile ban needs more study
In its weekly meeting yesterday, the Cabinet turned down a proposal to ban people from using mobile phones while driving and requested the Royal Thai Police re-evaluate the impact before resubmitting it for Cabinet consideration.
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Airport city likely to be axed
A controversial bill to set up a city near Suvarnabhumi Airport looks set to be shot down, reportedly after a Cabinet move yesterday to acknowledge objections.
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Sleepless in book-mad Taipei
As the site of Asia's biggest book centre, Taiwan unveiled the concept of a 24- hour bookshop at the Bangkok International Book Fair (BIBF) 2007 yesterday.
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