Eye-catching election banners and posters are mushrooming across Bangkok, rendering the traditional staid and dull photographs a thing of the past.

Bomb blast injures five in Yala

Five people, including two policemen, were injured when a home-made bomb exploded yesterday afternoon at a local photocopying shop, in what police believe was part of the ongoing campaign of violence in the deep South.

Families, colleagues mourn volunteers

Relatives and colleagues yesterday mourned four fire-fighters who perished on Sunday when a burning storehouse in Bangkok collapsed on them.

Tsunami museum proposed

The Culture Ministry will propose that the government build a Bt250-million museum in the South to educate citizens about tsunamis and commemorate those who lost their lives in last month’s disaster.

Hearing-loss alert issued

Tsunami survivors are urged to see a doctor if they develop pain, loss of hearing or infection in their ears, as such symptoms could lead to permanent deafness, a public health official said yesterday.

FACTION FIGHTING : Abhisit’s team out in the cold

Deputy’s supporters are furious about party-list rankings

Canvasser’s murder prompts threat of crackdown from PM

Outraged by the killing of his Thai Rak Thai canvasser in Ayutthaya, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday threatened to crack down on gunmen and influential persons after the election, as well as take action against Ayutthaya police if they fail to make an arrest.

Cabinet to bunk with locals when upcountry

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday said Cabinet members must spend the night with village and community leaders whenever they attend a meeting in the provinces.

BORDER CLASHES : Burmese troops attack KNU camps

Thai-brokered cease-fire shattered in six assaults; refugees flee across frontier

Peering into our far distant past

Journey back in time to an era when there were no powerful X-ray telescopes for surveying the depths of the sky and so inevitably people had a different concept of the universe.

AMLO freezes suspect’s Bt117m in assets

Police and the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) have frozen assets worth Bt117.92 million of a suspect arrested last month for allegedly laundering money for a drug trafficking gang.

COUNTING THE COST : 53,000 affected, Bt9 bn lost

5,303 killed and 3,396 missing, says top disaster relief official

Beach restored but where is everyone?

While the beachfront area in Patong has been badly damaged – and is now largely boarded up awaiting repairs – the beach itself is now near-spotless and looks magnificent.

His Majesty to meet three premiers

His Majesty the King will grant an audience to three Scandinavian heads of government on Sunday during their visit to Thailand to pay their respects to compatriots who lost their lives in the deadly tsunami that devastated the region two weeks ago, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday.

Two months to identify all the dead : Pongthep

It will take about two months to identify all the dead tsunami victims, senior officials involved in the grim task said yesterday.

Ambassadors heap praise on local effort

Ambassadors from countries whose citizens were killed or otherwise affected in last month’s disaster praised the Thai government’s efforts in facilitating rescue and relief operations.

FIRE-FIGHTERS’ DEATHS :Owner surrenders to face charges of illegal extensions

Denies unlawful modifications; says he did not set United Union Part building ablaze in effort to collect insurance