Thailand has beefed up security at the US consulate in the northern province city of Chiang Mai after receiving information that al Qaeda and Salafist terrorists were planning to launch a three-pronged attack on it this month. ...
04:26 PM, Feb 12, 2013
New Delhi: India on Thursday celebrated its 63rd Republic Day, showcasing its military might and the nation's rich cultural heritage. The main ceremonial parade was held in the capital with Thailand's first woman Prime Minister Yinluck Shinawatra as the guest of honour. The ceremony began around 10 am with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laying a floral wreath at the Amar Jawan Jyoti to pay tribute to an unknown soldier. The...
01:04 PM, Jan 26, 2012
New Delhi: Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday became the third consecutive leader from South East Asia to be the chief guest at India's Republic Day parade. Shinawatra, who took over the reins of the Thai government in August 2011 at age 44, is in India on a two-day state visit beginning Wednesday at the invitation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. This is her first visit to India as...
10:41 AM, Jan 26, 2012
New Delhi: Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Wednesday expressed desire to double trade with India to USD 14 billion by 2014 and forge maritime partnership to develop seaport at Dawei, a strategic location on the southwestern coast of Myanmar. Addressing leaders of Indian industry at the luncheon meeting hosted by ASSOCHAM, FICCI and CII in New Delhi, Shinawatra said, the two countries can also have cooperation in developing the...
04:48 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Yingluck Shinawatra, the first woman Prime Minister of Thailand who will be the chief guest at the 63rd Republic Day parade, arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday. Yingluck will attend a ceremonial reception on Wednesday at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan and will later in the day lay a wreath at Mahatma Gandhi's samadhi at Raj Ghat. Besides holding a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Yingluck...
06:50 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Bangkok: Thailand's first woman Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will be the chief guest at India's Republic Day parade celebrations on January 26, Thai Trade Representative Nalinee Thaweesin said on Tuesday. Yingluck, who became Thailand's first woman prime minister last July, will arrive in India on January 24 on a three-day official visit. During her visit, Yingluck will hold talks on ways to increase trade and investment opportunities between the two...
03:08 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Bangkok Receding floodwaters north of Bangkok have reduced the threat to the Thai capital, the prime minister said on Saturday, but high tides in the Gulf of Thailand will still test the city's flood defences. "If things go on like this, we expect floodwater in Bangkok to recede within the first week of November," Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on national television. Bangkok's main waterway, the Chao Phraya River, overflowed...
12:29 AM, Oct 30, 2011
Thailand's first woman Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra promises to take her country towards reconciliation. ...
02:03 PM, Jul 05, 2011
Bangkok: The woman poised to become Thailand's first female Prime Minister acknowledged huge challenges in reconciling her divided country, after an election landslide seen as a rebuke of the military-backed establishment that ousted her brother in a 2006 coup. Preliminary results from Sunday's poll showed 44-year-old Yingluck Shinawatra's Pheu Thai party winning the majority it needs to form the next government. If confirmed, the large mandate will likely boost Thailand's...
09:29 AM, Jul 04, 2011
