Bangkok - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva plans to propose liberalizing lending by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to crisis-hit developing countries at next month's Group of 20 summit, media reports said Wednesday.
"The World Bank and IMF should come to the aid of emerging-market economies without conditions," Abhisit said in an interview with Thailand's Nation newspaper.
Bangkok - The Royal Thai Air Force has launched an attack on the weather this week, sending two German-made Alpha Jet fighters and other aircraft into the clouds to make rain, media reports said Wednesday.
Air force chief Itthaporn Subhawong said the two Alpha Jets along with 13 other aircraft were deployed Tuesday as part of the annual rain-making mission for the kingdom, the Bangkok Post reported.
The German-made fighters have been armed with silver iodide bullets that release rain-making substances when fired into clouds at 6,100 metres.
Bangkok - Thailand plans to spend 1.4 trillion baht (38.9 billion dollars) to stimulate the economy over the next three years, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announced Tuesday.
Abhisit said the money, to be raised with foreign loans, would be spent on investments in small infrastructure projects in education, transportation, and public health, the Thai News Agency said.
Bangkok - Thailand on Monday allocated 6.9 billion baht (191 million dollars) for short-term occupational training this year when 1 million people are expected to lose their jobs.
Thai Deputy Prime Minister Kobsak Sabhavasu said the training initiative aims at providing short-term occupational courses for the unemployed and new graduates.
"The programme is set to continue for two years and is expected to help some 500,000 people find jobs," Kobsak told the state-run Thai New Agency.
Bangkok - Police killed an accused associate of a fugitive Thai Muslim drug lord after an all-night gunbattle in central Thailand, news reports said Saturday.
Four police officers were injured in the attempt to apprehend Bares Meesri in his rented home in Pathum Thani province just north of Bangkok.
When officers were finally able to enter the house Saturday morning, they found guns and heavy weapons next to the body of the accused drug trafficker, the Bangkok Post reported, adding that 100 officers were involved in the operation.
Pattani, Thailand - Suspected Muslim insurgents on Friday ambushed and killed three Thai soldiers and wounded another on the 46th anniversary of the Pattani separatist movement.
Amid beefed-up security throughout the deep-South region, separatists ambushed a Thai military patrol in the Srisakorn district of Narathiwat province, 700 kilometres south of Bangkok, leaving three dead and one wounded after a ten minute gunbattle, said Army Colonel Mandate Shinawatra, deputy commander of the regional special task force.
Bangkok - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva plans to propose liberalizing lending by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to crisis-hit developing countries at next month's Group of 20 summit, media reports said Wednesday.
Bangkok - The Royal Thai Air Force has launched an attack on the weather this week, sending two German-made Alpha Jet fighters and other aircraft into the clouds to make rain, media reports said Wednesday.
Bangkok - Thailand plans to spend 1.4 trillion baht (38.9 billion dollars) to stimulate the economy over the next three years, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announced Tuesday.
Bangkok - Thailand on Monday allocated 6.9 billion baht (191 million dollars) for short-term occupational training this year when 1 million people are expected to lose their jobs.
Bangkok - Police killed an accused associate of a fugitive Thai Muslim drug lord after an all-night gunbattle in central Thailand, news reports said Saturday.
Pattani, Thailand - Suspected Muslim insurgents on Friday ambushed and killed three Thai soldiers and wounded another on the 46th anniversary of the Pattani separatist movement.
