enlarge People look at fresh mushrooms at a department store in Bangkok on Tuesday. Mushrooms become popular during the weeklong vegeterian festivals held throughout the country.//Photo by Charnnarong Porndilokrad
Today's Highlights
Royal Flora Ratchaphruek opens next week
HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn will open the "Royal Flora Ratchaphruek 2006" in Chiang Mai's Muang district next Wednesday, Government Spokesman Yongyuth Maiyarap said Tuesday.
PM to Vietnam on Thursday
Greater bilateral investment and preventing avian influenza will top the agenda when Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont meets the Vietnamese premier Thursday.
About 5,000 aliens' names illegally added : DSI
Several government officials in Chiang Mai's Mae Taeng district have illegally put more than 5,000 aliens' names on local household registrations.
MUSICAL GENIUS King's songs given a new treatment by Austrian violinist, local pianist
It is difficult to characterise His Majesty the King's musical compositions, but the latest attempt to combine classical and jazz elements through orchestration with the violin solo by Austrian-born Wolfgang David, opens a new horizon for fresh appreciation of the King's genius.
Is the Thai government right to protest Cambodia's appointment of Thaksin as its economic adviser by recalling Thai ambassador and suspending all cooperations?