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- Trump heads for Davos maelstrom over Greenland
By AFP and published by CNA Davos, Switzerland – United States President Donald Trump descends on Davos for a showdown with European leaders on Wednesday (Jan. 21) as his bid to seize Greenland threatens to tear the transatlantic alliance apart. Trump brutally mocked the Europeans a day before heading to the World Economic Forum, […]
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21 January 21 2026World newshttps://thainewsroom.com/?p=142388 - Car smashes through car park wall in dramatic crash
A CAR dangled precariously at a Rama IV road car park last night (Jan. 20) after the driver smashed through a wall upon accidently pressing the accelerator pedal while reaching for something at the back seat, PPTVHD36 said. The accident occurred at around 9 p.m. within a seven-storey car park at the Klong Toei […]
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21 January 21 2026Local newshttps://thainewsroom.com/?p=142365 - ‘Big House’, party-skipping contestants upping the ante to win: Thammasat political scientist
By Thai Newsroom Reporters “BIG HOUSE” and party-skipping contestants running in constituency-based mode are upping the ante of their “ammunition” in an all-out effort to outvote rival candidates who may be only vying with campaign policies and hypes in the Feb.8 election, concluded a noted academic today (Jan.20). The “Big House” candidates and those […]
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20 January 20 2026Local newshttps://thainewsroom.com/?p=142357 - Ailing ex-Red Shirt leader jailed over 2010 protests
THE Supreme Court today (Jan. 20) upheld a five-year, four-month sentence against a key member of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), commonly called Red Shirts, Mr. Yoswarit Chuglom, aka Jeng Dokjik, even though he is undergoing treatment for a stroke, and life imprisonment sentence against another prominent Red Shirt member Mr. Suksek […]
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20 January 20 2026Local newshttps://thainewsroom.com/?p=142319 - Gunfight erupts as troops move in to arrest Yala petrol pump fire suspects
SHOOTING broke out in far south Yala province when a team of soldiers and policemen moved in to arrest a group of insurgents suspected to have bombed and set fire to 11 petrol pumps earlier this month, Naewna newspaper said today (Jan 20). Col. Yuthanam Phetmuang, a spokesperson of the Internal Security Operations Command […]
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20 January 20 2026Local newshttps://thainewsroom.com/?p=142296 - Cambodian social media rocked by rumour of Hun Sen suffering a stroke
CAMBODIAN social media is in turmoil after an exiled activist spread a rumour that senior leader Hun Sen has suffered a stroke with some speculating that this is merely an attempt to avoid meeting China’s assistant minister for public security Liu Zhongyi during his visit, PPTVHD36 said last evening (Jan. 19). Mr. Pang Sokheoun, […]
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19 January 19 2026Local newshttps://thainewsroom.com/?p=142273 - Activist’s Section 112 sentence overturned, gets 3 years in jail
THE Appeals Court today (Jan. 19) overturned the lower court’s verdict acquitting a Samut Prakan activist of charges of violating the lese majeste law, or Section 112 of the Criminal Code, and Section 116, a sedition law, and sentenced him to three years in jail without suspension, Naewna newspaper said. The Lawyers for Human […]
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19 January 19 2026Local newshttps://thainewsroom.com/?p=142243 - Over 40% Bangkok residents fearful of answering phone calls as scams spread: Opinion poll
WITH SCAMS spreading an opinion poll conducted this month shows that 40.1% of Bangkok residents are now apprehensive and hesitant to answer calls from unknown numbers with the most common form of fraud being impersonating a government agency, Naewna newspaper said today (Jan. 19). The Ban Somdej Poll Centre at Ban Somdej Chaopraya Rajabhat […]
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19 January 19 2026Local newshttps://thainewsroom.com/?p=142228 - Atirat the only People’s ex-minister contestant
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHENOMENON IN WHICH former transport minister Atirat Ratanaset is running for MP under the People’s tickets in an outer constituency of Nakhon Ratchasima, better known as Korat, has prompted oohs and aahs in no small measures among prospective Isaan voters during the current runup to the Feb.8 election. Given […]
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19 January 19 2026Local newshttps://thainewsroom.com/?p=142212 - Proposal ruined after engagement ring gets pickpocketed at Phuket EDC music festival
A THAI COUPLE are deeply unhappy after a diamond engagement ring got pickpocketed at Electric Daisy Carnival Thailand 2026 (EDC) music festival in Phuket last evening (Jan. 17) with the thief also using credit cards to steal a large sum of cash, Amarin TV said this evening. A reporter from this TV station interviewed […]
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18 January 18 2026Local newshttps://thainewsroom.com/?p=142199