INFLUENZA 2009

Thailand's death toll of the flu jumps to 65 Wednesday

Death toll of the new strain of influenza reached 65 on Wednesday, climbing from 44 last week, Deputy....

TYPE-A (H1N1)

Bt450 billion more to help fight virus
Ministry to spend Bt180m on buying respirators for hospitals nationwide

Laying down the law
New regulations on karaoke, Internet gaming, film ratings set to take effect

BMA query on electric train
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration will ask city residents whether they want the BMA or any other agency....

Worker registration
Fisheries operators can register their Cambodian, Lao and Burmese workers until Septem-ber 30. The deadline....
Nepalese caught smuggling heroin
A Nepalese man was arrested yesterday for trying to smuggle a kilogram of heroin to Bangkok from Chiang Rai.
Live healthily
The Thailand Health and Wellness fair has everything for you - a free checkup, innovative equipment, advice....
Student gazers
Hundreds of students and other Bangkokians waiting to witness the partial solar eclipse at Bangkok's....

Environment

Boost for Thai carbon credit
A vast mangrove area will soon be part of the first carbon credit project in Thailand - expected to generate....

Health&Science

HIV girl's kin must go to top officials
The family of a four-year-old girl believed to have caught HIV from a blood transfusion at a state hospital....

Education

Students win gold, silver at Olympiad
Thai students bagged one gold and five silver medals in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in....

Metro/Crimes

Car check leads to stash of guns, drugs
Several weapons and two grams of crystallised meth ("ice") were seized from six club-goers in a car....