Asean Secretary General Dr. Surin Pitsuwan said that Asean must be fully interconnected both physically and virtually to maintain the grouping's centrality and leading role beyond.

Bangkok - A Thai hospital needs 6,200 dollars in additional donations to repatriate a comatose German man they have been treating gratis for the past 10 months, hospital sources said Monday.

Phuket - A provincial marine official confirmed yesterday that an oil slick from a boat that sank off Phuket on Saturday appears to have dispersed and no traces remain.

The Public Health Ministry has warned of a widespread return of the 2009 flu virus after reports that two people in Lop Buri and Nonthaburi provinces died from the infection of the type-A (H1N1) virus last week, raising the death toll for this year to 57.

New life skills |help poor city residents to buy their own homes

Last week I was invited to give a talk about Learning for the Young Creative Mind at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC).

Violence continues in Pattani's Kok Phoe district on Sunday.

Mahidol University (MU) is improving its infrastructure in a bid to upgrade itself as the "University of Choice" and the first university Thai students want to enter, its president Clinical Professor Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn MD said last week.

Seven districts in Narathiwat province were hit by simultaneous arson attacks yesterday, four days before Ramadan, the annual Muslim fast, finishes.

Section of Ratchasima-Chok Chai Rd bulldozed to release water

The leaders of Thailand and Cambodia will have a private meeting in New York when they attend the second Asean-US Leaders' summit later this month.

Justice Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga yesterday ordered a probe into alleged lobbying by a Department of Special Investigation (DSI) investigator to help suspects in the Best 59 pyramid scheme involving Poodang Kitozan products.

A ship transporting 40,000 litres of diesel oil yesterday sank some 10 nautical miles off Phuket's Chalong Bay amid heavy rain and four-metre-high waves but crew members were saved by another ship sailing beside it. The scene remained inaccessible at press time due to the rough seas and weather.

MAE HONG SON - A tractor that was part of a caravan led by deputy government spokesman Marut Massayawanit, media members and officials overturned yesterday while running down a slippery road during the group's visit to Pai River basin Development Centre.

The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) yesterday opened bids for 14 "super" cars worth more than Bt80 million, which were seized from the Narathiwat brothers Humdam and Usman Salaemang's drug trafficking network that used a second-hand car-dealership as a cover for illegal business.

A Runda Kumpalan Kecil (RKK) insurgent suspect was apprehended yesterday while crossing from Malaysia to Narathiwat's Sungai Kolok district in a reported attempt to instigate violence during the upcoming Islam festival Hari Raya.

Justice Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga yesterday ordered a probe into alleged lobbying by a Department of Special Investigation (DSI) investigator to help suspects in the Best 59 pyramid scheme involving Poodang Kitozan products.

Leaders of Thailand and Cambodia will have a four-eye in New York when they attend the second Asean-US Leader Meeting later this month.

Arrest warrants are being sought for six other suspects believed to have been involved in a brawl between students in Bangkok's Min Buri district that killed a nineyearold schoolboy, police said.

With his strong determination to help poor people in rural area, Dr Kitibhum Juthasmith from Si Sa Ket has been named the outstanding rural doctor of the year.