Supreme Commander Boonsrang Niempradit and Cambodian Defence Minister Teah Banh are heading to Aranyaprathet in Sa Kaeo province for talks starting today, aware that they will not bring an immediate end to the Preah Vihear temple row.
WORLD ROBOCUP 2008
SUZHOU, CHINA : Thailand made it three-in-a-row at the World RoboCup 2008 competition in China yesterday when its Chulalongkorn University team swept aside the challenge of its three rivals in the finals.
INTERNATIONAL BIOLOGY OLYMPIAD
Thai students have brought home gold medals from the International Biology Olympiad competition, for the third year running.
CRIME TRACK
Most burglaries go unsolved, not because police give them less priority than other crimes, but it is indeed the hardest crime to crack.
MURDER
PATHUM THANI : An arrested man has admitted he killed a woman and dumped her body in an apartment building's water tank because she stole his methamphetamine pills, police said yesterday.
Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej plans to go on state-run television for one hour every night on week days to respond to the accusations made by the anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD).
STATE HEALTH SYSTEM
The Public Health Ministry plans to sharply increase the fine medical graduates are required to pay if they fail to complete their three-year internship in state hospitals.
ONE-TWO-GO AIRLINES
Pilot error caused the fatal crash in Phuket last year and was the reason behind the grounding of One-Two-Go airlines, Chaisak Angsuwan, the director-general of the Civil Aviation Department, said yesterday.
INBrief
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN :The leader of a local conservation group protesting against a giant smelting plant narrowly escaped injury when a gunman fired at his house in Bang Saphan district yesterday.
HOLISTIC HEALTHCARE
KALASIN : Buala Surisai chats with friends as she tears a newspaper into pieces and rolls it into a small ball- with her feet.
Thai and Cambodian soldiers are wearing both smiles and weapons while keeping a watch on each other in the disputed area adjacent to Preah Vihear temple.
EDITORIAL
It is quite common to hear government policies criticised because they are bad, but rare to hear them torn apart because they are too successful. But that is what happened when World Population Day rolled around on July 11 and sociologists found fault with the country's sorry birth rate of 0.4%.
POSTBAG
Dom Dunn (''What people remember'', Postbag, July 19) either understands very little about Thailand and its political history or has a lopsided attitude to make judgements on people's comments as he did.
InMedia
This may sound crazy, but I like the idea that people in the provinces abandon their cars and motorcycles and switch to horses to beat the current oil price hikes.
COMMENTARY
After a series of legal setbacks delivered by the judiciary and with a few more crushing rulings expected in the near future, Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej is fighting back with the tenacity of a cornered animal.
SPOTLIGHT
The government should mobilise state agencies to deal with the Preah Vihear issue, and appoint a national committee to steer the effort, MR Pridiyathorn Devakula suggests in an open letter to Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
