Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand News

The Department of Special Investigation inspected 384 luxury cars on Tuesday and found 301 of them had been falsely declared as being locally reassembled.

Korat, Thailand, Jun 18, 2013 / 04:07 pm .- A new home for the elderly in Thailand will seek to restore respect for senior citizens and to fight the escalating problems of elderly abandonment and suicide in the country.

The Department of Special Investigation called yesterday for two businessmen allegedly involved in the transport of six luxury cars that caught fire and revealed a tax avoidance scheme, to turn themselves in before warrants are taken out for their arrest.

Investigators had already gathered information on the suspected owners of six luxury cars that mysterious caught fire on a transporter in Nakhon Ratchasima, while en route to be registered as re-assembled vehicles in Si Sa Ket late May. Department of Special Investigation chief Tarit Pengdit said yesterday as forensic investigators worked to ... (more)

Anti-government white-mask protesters gathered in many provinces yesterday despite opposition from red-shirt supporters of the government.

The news of Dong Phaya Yen-Khao Yai National Park's possible removal as a World Heritage Site stems from misunderstanding and inaccurate information, the park's head, Krissada Homsud, said yesterday.

The Anti-Money Laundering Office has found seven major vehicle importers fudging their financial figures to evade taxes, including one suspected of involvement in the recent accidental burning of exotic cars being trucked in Nakhon Ratchasima.

In the face of growing risk of flash floods, Khao Yai National Park has warned tourists to immediately move to higher ground if they notice that the water around waterfalls is turning murky.

The Department of Special Investigation says it has identified the people who hired a transporter to carry six super cars to Si Sa Ket.

Anti-Human Trafficking Division police have arrested two men following a crackdown on an overseas job placement scam, and two women for alleged human trafficking and procurement of prostitutes.

BANGKOK, 7 June 2013 The Ministry of Transport will use a portion of the 2-trillion-baht budget of the government's infrastructure mega project to develop Nakhon Ratchasima province or Korat as a metropolis of transportation for the northeastern region.

BANGKOK, 7 June 2013 Officials from the Department of Special Investigation yesterday conducted searches of 4 sites to find links to the luxury cars that burned down on top of a trailer in Nakhon Ratchasima last week, an incident that has sparked a rush by authorities to clamp down on car import tax evasion.

The Central Administrative Court verdict ordering the Department of Highways to replant a large number of trees along a Tararath Road section in Nakhon Ratchasima, were felled for an expansion project three years ago, is practicable, not far-fetched or unrealistic as many critics say, the court's spokesman said.

A majority of people think it is now necessary for the government to review its populist policies, including the rice-pledging scheme, according to the results of Abac Poll published on Sunday.

A majority of people think it is now necessary for the government to review its populist policies, including the rice-pledging scheme, according to the results of Abac Poll published on Sunday.

One Mercedes and the BMWs were smuggled into the country from Malaysia, while the other three Mercedes and the Porsche were removed from a Customs Department bonded warehouse.

Nakhon Ratchasima's Office of the Teacher Civil Service and Educational Personnel Commission 's subcommittee Saturday agreed to dismiss 51 newly appointed assistant teachers over allegations of being involved in exam cheating.

The Customs Department has ordered customs checkpoints at borders nationwide to block owners of luxury cars from taking their vehicles out of the country.

The Department of Special Investigation will initially target cars with a price tag of at least four million baht in its probe into vehicle import tax evasion.

The Department of Highways will appeal the Administrative Court's May 16 order to plant trees of the same or similar sizes and types as the old ones uprooted by the agency from a road leading to Khao Yai National Park, the director of the department's Region 8 said.