Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien has voiced support of cooperation contents reached during talks on November 8 between the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army Lt. Gen. Nguyen Van Nghia and Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Army Gen. Narongpan Jittkaewtae.
The Royal Thai Army Commander in Chief, Gen Narongpan Jittkaewtae, has ordered army units in border areas to enhance the present measures that prevent illegal border crossings, and help support disease control operations at 22 border crossings.
The Royal Thai Armed Forces Command has set up 357 checkpoints nationwide to check inter-provincial travellers as an effort to contain the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Royal Thai Army has deployed an MI-17 helicopter to transport tractors, trucks, and heavy machinery up to Phu Kradueng to support firefighting operations.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on February 9 sent a letter of condolences to his Thai counterpart Prayut Chan-o-cha over the mass shooting in Nakhon Ratchasima province.
Thailand’s army chief on April 2 warned the military will oppose any action that threatens the country’s system of constitutional monarchy after the election.
The Royal Thai Army Command Centre has included mine disarmament in this year’s Cobra Gold exercises, looking to exchange knowledge as well as technology for the operation.
Around 725 Thai soldiers and 683 American troops are taking part in the Hanuman Guardian joint military exercise 2017 in Kanchanaburi province of Thailand.
A Bangkok court in Thailand convicted dozens on July 19 in a major human trafficking case which was uncovered in 2015, involving more than 100 defendants and a senior army officer.
Thai police revealed that Watana Pumret, aged 62, a former engineer of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, is the suspect of the bombing at a military hospital in Bangkok in May.
Thailand's military announced on May 10 that it is hunting four suspects of a car bomb that wounded more than 60 people outside a supermarket in the southern town of Pattani.
The army chief of Thailand has said PM Prayut Chan-o-Cha needs to retain the power to issue executive orders regardless of legislative and judicial agencies for the sake of security and peace in the country.