Suspected insurgents, blending in with some 300 village headmen and officials, set off a car bomb near the venue of a monthly meeting in Sukhirin district yesterday.
Bangkokians will be able to celebrate Loy Krathong in Thonburi's Santichaiprakarn Park near Rama VIII Bridge, one of 20 public parks being specially opened for the festival.
Her Majesty the Queen has graciously granted Bt100,000 through the Phetburi Red Cross Society to assist the family of a technical college student who sustained a serious head injury in a hazing ceremony last week.
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) is set to conclude its investigation into the multimillion-baht plan to procure 45 Bus Rapid Transit vehicles before the end of the year.
The Natural Resources and Environment Ministry has awarded Bt40 million to a company project that will turn Samut Prakan's Tambon Bang Pu into an antiglobalwarming demonstration site.
Arsonist set fire to a public school in Pattani and Narathiwat, while gunmen shot dead four local residents in Yala as violence continue unabated in the deep South Wednesday one day after two simultaneous bombs injured more than 60 people.