Bangkok - Shi Han Min, who led the Beijing's effort to clean up its air for the 2008 Olympic Games, on Wednesday won the first Kong Ha Award for excellence in air quality management.

The award, which included a 10,000-dollar purse, was granted to Shi at the Better Air Quality 2008 workshop in Bangkok, which has drawn 900 delegates from the region.

Shi, director of Beijing's Environment Protection Bureau, was credited for introducing many initiatives to clean up the Chinese capital's notorious air pollution for the Olympics which were later institutionalized and replicated in other Chinese cities.

Bangkok - Thailand's National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) on Tuesday ruled unanimously that Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin was guilty of wrongdoing in the purchase of fire trucks and boats from Austria more than four years ago.

The commission found Apirak, who was recently voted in as Bangkok Governor for a second term, guilty of involvement in "irregularities" in the 6.7-billion-baht (197 million dollar) purchase of fire trucks and fire boats from Austrian firm Steyr Daimler Puch Company, said the Bangkok Post online news service.

The dubious deal was rushed through by Apirak's predecessor Samak Sundaravej, who went on to become prime minister after the December 2007, general election.

Bangkok - A Senate probe into last month's crackdown on anti-government protestors that left two people dead, concluded Tuesday that the cabinet and police had violated the demonstrators' human rights.

Bangkok - A Senate probe into last month's crackdown on anti-government protestors that left two people dead, concluded Tuesday that the cabinet and police had violated the demonstrators' human rights.

Bangkok - Thailand's bourse fell 3.1 per cent Tuesday, drawn down by foreign markets, analysts said.

Bangkok  - Thailand's Food and Drug Administration on Monday burned 8 tons of food products tainted with high levels of the toxic chemical melamine.

About 20,000 boxes of melamine-tainted snacks and more 13,000 cans of unsweetened condensed milk were destroyed at the Bang Pa-in industrial estate in northern Bangkok under the supervision of Deputy Public Health Minister Wicharn Meenchainan, the Thai News Agency said.