Thousands of citizens, dressed in black, convened from across the country yesterday to witness the grand royal cremation at Bangkok's Sanam Luang and to send their beloved Princess to heaven.
For centuries funerary pyres, or meru, have been built for royal personages and senior monks. For the latter, the pyre of wood and bamboo is burnt totally.
Floodwaters have hit Nakhon Si Thammarat's Tha Sala hospital, prompting the evacuation of patients, while the disaster prevention office at neighbouring Phattalung has ordered tourists from swollen waterfalls along the Banthat mountain range.
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) is thinking about charging a private company for allegedly dumping toxic waste into a water source in Chon Buri.
The Public Health Ministry has stepped up its monitoring of bird flu following the discovery of an outbreak among chickens in Sukhothai, Public Health Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung said yesterday.
At least 13 people were wounded - two seriously - by an exploding device reportedly thrown early yesterday morning by an unidentified man on a motorcycle at vendors from Khlong Toei Market staging a protest at Bangkok's RatchadaRama IV Intersection.
The Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed charges of treason against three men from the deep South, saying there was not enough credible evidence to support the claim that they were engaged in separatist activities.