Officials set sights on eliminating eye problems
Teams of health officials are panning out across the Kingdom to find people suffering from cataracts, in a bid to quell increasing blindness because of the disease.
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Man rams two thieves
A 60-year-old businessman rammed two men on a motorcycle after they snatched a gold necklace from a woman in Bangkok's Bang Kapi district yesterday morning, police said.
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Court to hear case against new Big C
The Administrative Court yesterday began a hearing to decide whether a Big C supermarket near a cemetery in Phrae should be torn down.
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Club dancer tells of lucky escape, rear doors locked
A dancer yesterday revealed the details of her narrow escape from death in a fire in Pattaya's Route 999 nightclub, where eight of her co-workers died and more than 50 people were injured on Sunday night.
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Sinking homes will be torn down: BMA
Eight townhouses that cracked and sank 70 centimetres at the weekend in Bangkok's Lat Phrao are to be demolished. The buildings were evacuated on Monday.
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New health secretary appointed
The Cabinet yesterday appointed Dr Prat Boonyawongvirot as the permanent secretary of the Public Health Ministry.
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Govt officials told to cut foreign trips
The government is dusting off energy-saving measures for state offices including less overseas trips and more use of natural-gas vehicles for the new administration to consider.
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Four shot dead as the South bleeds
Four people were killed yesterday and seven others, including two soldiers, injured in separate incidents as violence rocked Pattani again.
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Chopper joy-ride startles residents
At first it looked like a SWAT operation to a frightened grandmother when a police helicopter suddenly loomed above her house in Sai Mai district in Bangkok yesterday and hovered directly above it for 10 minutes - its whirling rotor blades kicking up dust and debris.
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