has determined that people responsible could face up to two years jail and/or a fine of up to Bt40,000, the Public Health Ministry said yesterday.
Dr Somyos Deerasamee, head of the Department of Medical Service, said the team looking into the matter, found that miscommunication had resulted in the boy, aged 12, being mistreated at the Phra Pradaeng clinic.
A fact-finding....
has determined that people responsible could face up to two years jail and/or a fine of up to Bt40,000, the Public Health Ministry said yesterday.
Dr Somyos Deerasamee, head of the Department of Medical Service, said the team looking into the matter, found that miscommunication had resulted in the boy, aged 12, being mistreated at the Phra Pradaeng clinic.
A fact-finding....
Harry Nicolaides, 41, pleaded guilty to the charge which relates to a passage in a novel titled "Verisimilitude" which he published in 2005.
"He was found guilty under criminal law article 112 and the court has sentenced him to six years, but due to his confession, which is beneficial to the case, the sentence is reduced to three years," a judge told the court.
"He has written a book....
Speaking yesterday at Nakhon Ratchasima university, employees' leaders said all workers at 875 government hospitals and public health stations would stop if their fourpoint demands were not met by next month. Kanokphorn Suksanit, a protest leader, said the strike would not be carried out in a way that would affect treatment of patients or threaten their health.
One demand....
"Instead of borrowing Bt70billion from foreign countries, why doesn't the government turn to the SSO?" the confederation's chairman, Manas Kosol said.
Currently, the Social Security Fund - managed by SSO has accumulated cash of over Bt500billion. This year, SSO is scheduled to invest about Bt150billion of the amount in government bonds, state enterprises and more....
Earlier this week, new Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra urged OAG to ask the Civil Court to void the purchase contract, or at least issue an injunction to prevent the next instalment being paid.
The next payment is due on February 11.
"The purchase contract states that in any dispute, the parties to the contract must dispatch their representatives to talk and an....
Christian A Richards, 54, has been charged with procurement and commercial sex advertisements. The parties are advertised through www.Bangkok.CraigsList.co.th where Richards' wife goes by the name of Duang. They charge each participant Bt3,000.
Party raided
The "swingers caught in the raid were a mix of....
Deputy city police chief Pol Maj-General Panu Kerdlarppol said he would meet with 7-Eleven executives Friday to see if the fines could be paid via the stores' counter service.
Since December 30, tickets have been sent to 75,470 red-light runners, slapping them with a Bt500 fine and a 40-point reduction on their licence, he said. However, only 4,283 have paid the fine so far.....
He said that before robbing Seri of Bt40....
Wittaya said he had assigned his advisers to collect all available information about socalled "deals" that might have taken place before he took his post. "All officials must cooperate in this operation," he advised.
The report, released by the AuditorGeneral's Office yesterday, showed that some senior ministry officials had amended the terms of reference, that were significantly....
"Don't panic but be aware that water from such sources might be contaminated by the H5N1 virus," advised the Health Ministry's deputy permanent secretary Dr Paijit Warachit, adding that the strain can thrive in water for 17 days.
The warning came after a resident in Suphan Buri's Muang district filed a complaint with local media that more than 10,000 Lesser....
And 39 establishments, mostly electronics parts makers, were on the verge of going under, threatening 28,573 employees, he said.
The project would use the centre in Ayutthaya as the nationwide model.
Services would include registering retrenched workers with the Social Security Office for unemployment compensation, assisting them in job searches and providing them skills retraining.....
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has sought access to 126 Rohingya boat people believed to be held on Sai Daeng Island in the Andaman Sea.
However, the military told the Foreign Ministry yesterday it had "no clear information" about refugees in its custody that the UN wants to talk to.
Prime Minister Abhisit said: "We are glad to work with inter¬national....
Deputy police chief Jongrak Juthanont denied yesterday that singer Saravuth Ariya from the band Burn had been unfair?ly blamed for the disaster. He said arrest warrants issued by a court for all suspects were based on evidence and witness accounts.
Jongrak said last Friday he escorted the person who took a video clip before the fire to see the Justice Minister so the min?ister could ask....
Taking part in the meeting were Thai ambassadors from Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and Singapore.
Local residents interviewed by....
"We will make sure that everyone who needs help will get help, and everyone who makes the effort to help himself and his family, we will make sure he is all right," Lee said Sunday night at a Chinese New Year dinner in his ward in Ang Mo Kio.
Lee identified three groups who would get more support: poor pupils who cannot afford schooling, needy families and retrenched....
Ch Karnchang, a Thai construction firm that owns the plant, is seeking a financial adviser for helping with the listing, which would become the first such cross-border listing of a company from Indochina on the Thai bourse, The Nation newspaper reported.
The company needs funding to complete the Nam Ngum II hydropower plant. The plant on the Nam Ngum River, a major tributary....
"There are eight types of wildcats in Thailand, and two of them have already been put on the World Conservation Union's red list of threatened species, which include flatheaded cats and fishing cats," Boripat Siriaroonrat, a veterinarian and assistant director of the Zoological Park Organisation's conservation, research and education unit, said yesterday.
"A big....
Department deputy directorgeneral Khemachat Thepachai said the department had earlier sent a letter to the Office of His Majesty's Principal Private Secretary to ask for permission to do so, and the office later allowed the department to take those parts. They included the steel structure of Songtham Pavilion and bricks to build the site museum that covers sevenrai area at Nong Ratchawat....
The areas at risk are located along AngthongSawaeng Ha Road in Pho Thong district, where flocks of lesserwhistling ducks and openbilled storks are feeding.
Provincial livestock chief Suebsawas Phakphiboon said the probability of an avian flu outbreak so far has been zero even before disinfectant was sprayed in the areas to calm the villagers.
However, he called on villagers not to....
OAG spokesman Thanapich Moolpreuk told a press conference the public prosecutors based their decision on the grounds that Santika executives had notified their intention to run the place as an entertainment venue to a Thong Lor police superintendent on December 24, 2003.
According to the Places of Service Act,1966 (third amendment,1982), those wishing to establish a place of service must....
