Tag: Chalerm Yoobamrung
CMPO Director reaffirms re-election to be held within 180 days
BANGKOK, 3 February 2014, Center for Maintaining Peace and Order (CMPO) Director reaffirms that re-election will be held within 180 days, but the reopening...
PM asks security agencies to help EC carry out election
BANGKOK, 30 January 2014 Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has asked all security-related agencies to facilitate the Election Commission (EC)'s duty in carrying out the...
PM, new ministers take oath before HM the King
BANGKOK, July 1 -- His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej granted a royal audience to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and 18 newly appointed Cabinet members...
Yingluck’s ‘war on drugs’ comes to Pattaya
Thailand’s renewed “war on drugs” has come to Pattaya. At a April 11 meeting, Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome announced that the Ministry of Interior...
PM: Disaster zone may be declared in haze-hit North
BANGKOK, March 6 - As northern Thailand has been blanketed by haze for over a week, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Tuesday said...
Chalerm orders reinvestigation of ‘Seh Daeng’ killing
BANGKOK, Jan 13 -- Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung on Friday said he has ordered metropolitan police to reopen the investigation of the...
Police chief transferred to head National Security Council
BANGKOK, Oct 4 – The Thai cabinet approved the transfer of national Police Chief Pol Gen Wichean Potephosree to become National Security Council (NSC)...
Drug suspects arrested in three cases as government crackdown continues
CHIANG RAI, Sept 25 - Police arrested a suspected member of a major drug network in the North, two suspected drug traffickers in...
FDA to burn illegal drugs worth Bt2.5 bln
BANGKOK, Sept 16 – More than 800kg of illicit drugs, seized in over 130,000 cases, will be burnt at the Bang Pa-in industrial estate...
Chalerm pledges no violation of law in govt’s anti-drug campaign
BANGKOK, Sept 15 - Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung on Thursday promised that the Thai government's recently-launched campaign against narcotics will follow the...
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A proposed tunnel near Pattaya will delay highspeed rail network to Bangkok
The plans to build a highspeed rail link from Bangkok airports to U-tapao airport near Rayong has hit yet another snag. The international consortium...
Don’t bet on Pattaya getting a casino
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The government has at last confirmed that it will have the last word on which locations will be chosen to host casino-entertainment complexes....
Pattaya court sentences gang to death in dismemberment murder of German businessman
PATTAYA, Thailand – In a shocking murder case that gained international attention, the Pattaya Provincial Court has sentenced three individuals to death for the...
Would Thai language signs in Pattaya confuse tourists?
PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya, a world-renowned tourist hotspot, attracts millions of international visitors each year, making it a melting pot of cultures. One topic...
Jomtien condo residents terrified as frantic foreign tourist roams the halls
PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya police received a report of a foreign man wielding a knife and knocking on doors at a condominium on Jomtien...