The Latest Breaking News from Siripong Angkasakulkiat

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has ordered an extension to the appeal period for applicants rejected from the state welfare card programme.

The government has denied reports that it has already decided to terminate the public-private partnership contract for the high-speed rail project linking Don Mueang, Suvarnabhumi and U-Tapao airports.

The Transport Ministry will today (Tuesday) seek cabinet approval in principle for a plan to place Bangkok's electric rail network under a single management model overseen by the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA).

The much-vaunted Land Bridge project, once marketed as a transformative mega-development that would redefine Thailand’s role in global trade, risks becoming a political liability for the ruling Bhumjaithai Party. What was initially presented as a bold national vision now appears mired in uncertainty, resistance and wavering political commitment.

The freight train that hit a passenger bus in Bangkok on Saturday afternoon, killing eight people and injuring many more, was in violation of the ban on entering Bangkok during the day, according to Deputy Transport Minister Siripong Angkasakulkiat.

At least eight people were killed and more than 20 injured after a freight train collided with a public bus at a railway crossing in Thailand’s capital Bangkok on Saturday, AP reported.

Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has outlined recovery and compensation plans for the southern part of the country, where severe flooding has killed at least 162 people

Bangkok had earlier said it was suspending ceasefire, accusing Cambodia of laying landmines along the border