Bangkok - Embattled Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was scheduled to depart Bangkok for India Wednesday to attend a summit of the Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), foreign ministry sources confirmed.
Somchai was scheduled to leave Bangkok at 7:50 pm (1250 GMT) on a special Thai Airways International flight to the Indian capital New Delhi, where he will attend the second BIMSTEC summit Thursday and Friday.
Six months after Thailand was declared free of the deadly bird flu virus, Thailand's agriculture ministry has confirmed a fresh bird flu outbreak on a backyard farm in the north.
Two hundred and seventy birds were slaughtered in Sukhothai province after the H5N1 strain of avian influenza was found in a dead chicken, though there are not reports of any people sick from it. Investigations are underway to determine whether the outbreak was caused in Thailand or had its origin in a neighbouring country.
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 - Embattled Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was scheduled to depart Bangkok for India Wednesday to attend a summit of the Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), foreign ministry sources confirmed.
Six months after Thailand was declared free of the deadly bird flu virus, Thailand's agriculture ministry has confirmed a fresh bird flu outbreak on a backyard farm in the north. 
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.
