Bangkok - Thailand's new government has launched a thorough review of the use of martial law in the country's conflict-ridden deep South where some 3,500 have been killed over the past four years and will decide on its extension within three months.
"I will ask the people involved to now run a systematic review of the various laws, so the next time they ask for an extension it will not be automatic," said Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, addressing an audience at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand Wednesday night.
Bangkok - Thailand's exports are likely to hit 173.2 billion dollars in 2009, a 1.6 per cent decline on last year's performance, media reports said Wednesday.
With economic growth and import demand on the decline in the US, Europe, Japan and in other South-east Asian nations, Thailand is expected to experience a fall in exports for the first time since 2001, according to a study compiled by The Centre for International Trade Studies, part of the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce.
Bangkok - Thailand's current government received a boost from a by-election held over the weekend that has added 20 seats to a Democrat-led coalition compared with nine for the opposition, unofficial results showed Monday.
Coalition partners have won 20 of the 29 contested seats, leaving the two opposition parties - Puea Thai and Pracharaj with nine, according to the Election Commission's unofficial tally Monday.
Thais on Sunday voted in a by-election in 22 provinces and for a new governor in Bangkok.
Bangkok - Thais went to the polls Sunday to vote for 29 new legislators in a by-election and for a new governor in Bangkok, with the outcome of both polls likely to test the strength of the current coalition government.
The by-election was called in 22 provinces after the Constitution Court last month dissolved the People Power Party and Chart Thai parties for committing fraud in the December 2007 polls. The decision barred their top executives from political office and left 29 seats vacant in the lower house.
Bangkok - A skydiver killed a 10-year-old girl in north-eastern Thailand Saturday when he accidently crashed into a crowd gathered to observe the army demonstration of skydiving skills as part of I
Bangkok- Thai shares slipped 3.01 in va
Bangkok - Thailand's new government has launched a thorough review of the use of martial law in the country's conflict-ridden deep South where some 3,500 have been killed over the past four years and will decide on its extension within three months.
Bangkok - Thailand's exports are likely to hit 173.2 billion dollars in 2009, a 1.6 per cent decline on last year's performance, media reports said Wednesday.
Bangkok - Thailand's current government received a boost from a by-election held over the weekend that has added 20 seats to a Democrat-led coalition compared with nine for the opposition, unofficial results showed Monday.
Bangkok - Thais went to the polls Sunday to vote for 29 new legislators in a by-election and for a new governor in Bangkok, with the outcome of both polls likely to test the strength of the current coalition government.
