Bangkok - Thailand's state railway was expected to sign a 90-million-baht (2.5-million-dollar) deal with Deutsche Bahn International to operate Bangkok's airport rail link to open later this year, media reports said Saturday.
Tawalyarat Onsira, the Transport Ministry's deputy permanent secretary, said the State Railways of Thailand hoped to finalize the deal with the German firm this month, The Nation newspaper reported.
Bangkok - The Thai cabinet decided Friday to keep Bangkok and its surrounding provinces under emergency law until peace is fully restored to the capital, which was rocked by violent clashes between protestors and authorities earlier this week.
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said the state of emergency would be maintained "for as short a period as possible, in order to restore peace and normalcy in Bangkok and its neighbouring areas."
Bangkok, Apr. 17 : Thailand's media mogul and founder of the People''s Alliance for Democracy Sondhi Limthongkul has been declared safe after doctors successfully removed bullet shrapnel from his head.
Limthongkul survived an attempt on his life on Friday when gunmen attacked his car with automatic rifle fire.
Bangkok - Gunmen early Friday attacked Sondhi Limthongkul, one of the core leaders of last year's yellow-shirt protests, riddling his car with more than 100 bullets but failed to kill him, police said.
Two unidentified gunmen in a Toyota pickup truck sprayed Sondhi's car with M-16 and AK47 semi-automatic fire at 5:45 am as the media tycoon was being driven to his ASTV television station, Police Colonel Khing Kwaengwhisetchaichang said.
Bangkok - Fitch downgraded Thailand's sovereign and local currency credit ratings Thursday in the wake of street violence and political upheaval earlier this week.
The credit agency lowered Thailand's long-term sovereign, or country, credit rating to BBB from its previous BBB+ status and its baht currency ratings to A- from A.
Bangkok - Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged the Thai government to set up an independent commission to investigate recent politically-motivated violence "by all sides," including those responsible for this week's mayhem and last year's protests.
Thailand has been wracked by street protests for almost a year now, starting with the demonstrations led by the yellow-shirted People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) that began in May 2008, and culminated with the closure of Bangkok's two airports for a week in November-December.
Bangkok - Thailand's state railway was expected to sign a 90-million-baht (2.5-million-dollar) deal with Deutsche Bahn International to operate Bangkok's airport rail link to open later this year, media reports said Saturday.
Bangkok - The Thai cabinet decided Friday to keep Bangkok and its surrounding provinces under emergency law until peace is fully restored to the capital, which was rocked by violent clashes between protestors and authorities earlier this week.
Bangkok, Apr. 17 : Thailand's media mogul and founder of the People''s Alliance for Democracy Sondhi Limthongkul has been declared safe after doctors successfully removed bullet shrapnel from his head.
Bangkok - Gunmen early Friday attacked Sondhi Limthongkul, one of the core leaders of last year's yellow-shirt protests, riddling his car with more than 100 bullets but failed to kill him, police said.
Bangkok - Fitch downgraded Thailand's sovereign and local currency credit ratings Thursday in the wake of street violence and political upheaval earlier this week.
Bangkok - Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged the Thai government to set up an independent commission to investigate recent politically-motivated violence "by all sides," including those responsible for this week's mayhem and last year's protests.
