Bangkok - Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra on Saturday left the United Arab Emirates for Nicaragua, where he has been granted a diplomatic passport, media reports said.
Thaksin has been in the United Arab Emirates for the past month, the Arabian Business magazine said.
Bangkok - Thailand's state railway was expected to sign a 90-million-baht (2.5-million-dollar) deal with Deutsche Bahn International to operate Bangkok's airport rail link to open later this year, media reports said Saturday.
Tawalyarat Onsira, the Transport Ministry's deputy permanent secretary, said the State Railways of Thailand hoped to finalize the deal with the German firm this month, The Nation newspaper reported.
Bangkok - The Thai cabinet decided Friday to keep Bangkok and its surrounding provinces under emergency law until peace is fully restored to the capital, which was rocked by violent clashes between protestors and authorities earlier this week.
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said the state of emergency would be maintained "for as short a period as possible, in order to restore peace and normalcy in Bangkok and its neighbouring areas."
Bangkok, Apr. 17 : Thailand's media mogul and founder of the People''s Alliance for Democracy Sondhi Limthongkul has been declared safe after doctors successfully removed bullet shrapnel from his head.
Limthongkul survived an attempt on his life on Friday when gunmen attacked his car with automatic rifle fire.
Bangkok - Gunmen early Friday attacked Sondhi Limthongkul, one of the core leaders of last year's yellow-shirt protests, riddling his car with more than 100 bullets but failed to kill him, police said.
Two unidentified gunmen in a Toyota pickup truck sprayed Sondhi's car with M-16 and AK47 semi-automatic fire at 5:45 am as the media tycoon was being driven to his ASTV television station, Police Colonel Khing Kwaengwhisetchaichang said.
Bangkok - Fitch downgraded Thailand's sovereign and local currency credit ratings Thursday in the wake of street violence and political upheaval earlier this week.
The credit agency lowered Thailand's long-term sovereign, or country, credit rating to BBB from its previous BBB+ status and its baht currency ratings to A- from A.
Bangkok - Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra on Saturday left the United Arab Emirates for Nicaragua, where he has been granted a diplomatic passport, media reports said.
Bangkok - Thailand's state railway was expected to sign a 90-million-baht (2.5-million-dollar) deal with Deutsche Bahn International to operate Bangkok's airport rail link to open later this year, media reports said Saturday.
Bangkok - The Thai cabinet decided Friday to keep Bangkok and its surrounding provinces under emergency law until peace is fully restored to the capital, which was rocked by violent clashes between protestors and authorities earlier this week.
Bangkok, Apr. 17 : Thailand's media mogul and founder of the People''s Alliance for Democracy Sondhi Limthongkul has been declared safe after doctors successfully removed bullet shrapnel from his head.
Bangkok - Gunmen early Friday attacked Sondhi Limthongkul, one of the core leaders of last year's yellow-shirt protests, riddling his car with more than 100 bullets but failed to kill him, police said.
Bangkok - Fitch downgraded Thailand's sovereign and local currency credit ratings Thursday in the wake of street violence and political upheaval earlier this week.
