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The tax on banks' total deposit holdings will increase from 0.4% to 0.47% from July 31, Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong said on Monday.

Distraught relatives of Mark Robson, 27, of Gillitts, who went missing in Thailand last month, have provisionally identified a body recovered at Phuket which they think is his.

Egco Group Plc, Thailand's first independent power producer, is committed to expanding renewable energy to 300 megawatts over the next several years from 46 MW now.

Pol Lt Col Chitdecha Songhong, in the grey shirt, and Pol Capt Prajakpong Suriya, of the Transnational Crime Coordination Centre watch footage in which suspects were captured while using fake credit cards to withdraw money from ATMs in Pattaya.

Siam Cement Group expects a moderate 4-5% increase in cement sales this year on forecasts that demand in the residential market will remain slow over the next six to 12 months as homebuyers delay their decisions due to flood concerns.

Cabinet will be asked in two weeks to consider paying a 7.5 million baht compensation package to the families of victims of violence in the South, Justice Minister Pracha Promnok said on Sunday.

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT : Chaiwat Krairiksh, a party-list MP under the Rak Thailand Party quota, yesterday filed a libel complaint with Pak Phanang police against his party leader Chuvit Kamolvisit.

Rak Thailand Party leader Chuvit Kamolvisit has sparked a new controversy by claiming he has information on a large prostitution network in Bangkok and other provinces that is backed by influential people including politicians.

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said the government is looking for 2 million rai of land to use as areas to hold flood water - given the likelihood that wet-season flooding this year could be as severe as last year.

The Chinese embassy in Bangkok, Thailand is warning its citizens to be careful when visiting Chiang Mai in the north of the country, after several Chinese tourists have been attacked.

Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was glad to see warm relations between Privy Council President Prem Tinsulanonda and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at Friday's gala dinner at Government House, his legal adviser Noppadon Pattama said yesterday.

The couples from both local and foreign countries dived 12 meters beneath the Andaman Sea to attend a traditional Thai wedding ceremony, mixed with obvious modern adaptations.

With the staggering amounts of money to be made it should not surprise anyone if some people who are supposed to on the side of drug suppression are in fact involved in feeding the drug trade, both in Myanmar and Thailand Recent weeks have seen some major drug busts in the Kingdom, the largest when police raided a house in Pathum Thani at the end ... (more)

Three-quarters of the country, including popular tourist destinations such as the northern city of Chiang Mai and the ancient capital of Ayutthaya, has been gravely affected.

NATHAN Edwards had landed his dream job. An airline steward for V Australia, the charismatic 24-year-old loved meeting people and seeing the world.

It has been reported police found drugs in the room, but yesterday they could not shed light on a possible cause of death.

Dr Smith Dharmasaroja and the crowd of 2000 school administrators he addressed at the Royal Phuket City Hotel on Thursday.

A total of 79 districts in 13 provinces have been declared drought zones, affecting people in 4,743 villages, Wibul Sanguanpong, director general of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department, said on Friday.

PHRA NAKHON SI AYUTTHAYA, 10 February 2012 - Interior Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit has indicated that the current flooding in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya has been caused by two agencies' not integrating the works.A Mr Yongyuth said the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand has released the water without informing the Royal Irrigation Department, ... (more)

A number of prosecution witnesses in fact work and live in Bangkok, although their original registered residences are in the provinces.