Fourteen teachers were killed and 23 others injured when their bus plunged into a roadside ravine Monday, police said. The accident happened in Nan’s Song Kwae district at about 7:30 am. The 32 teachers were traveling from Ban Dai School in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district on an education trip to Thung Chang district. They […]
Thai police have arrested a French language instructor who allegedly sexually abused a young boy in Nan province. Police said the man sold photographs of the children on the internet. Nan Provincial Police have arrested a 48 year old (name removed), a French national language instructor who allegedly sexually abused a number of young boys […]
NAKHON PRATHOM, 15 February 2011 (NNT) – Minister of Tourism and Sports Mr. Chumpol Silpa-Acha has welcomed Indian beauty pageant contestants on their trip to Thailand in preparation for the contest. As part of their activities, the 24 Indian contestants yesterday visited Riverside Rose Garden , Suan Sum Pran, Nakorn Pathom Province. During the visit […]
The Human Trafficking Suppression Police have cracked down on a brothel in central Suphanburi province, rescuing more than 30 Laotian girls. Human trafficking police said they have arrested 48-year Surapha Pudpa, the owner of a restaurant called ‘Phraew’, along with two staff members, for their involvement in sex trade. Police said a man notified officers […]
WLB Urges the Thai Government to Ensure the Protection of Civilians Fleeing Conflict (Thai-Burma Border, Thailand – 1 February 2011) A mother and two young boys seeking refuge in Thailand have been seriously injured by shrapnel from mortars that landed across the Thai-Burma border on Sunday 30 January. The three injured are refugees from Karen […]
BANGKOK, 1 February 2011 (NNT) – Army Chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha has reaffirmed no loss of Thai territory so far while suggesting that negotiations rather than military means should be used to solve the border conflict. With escalating tensions along the Thai-Cambodian border, Gen Prayuth assured that troops and weaponry had been readied for the […]
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 30 — Thailand will issue a protest note to Cambodia after the Cambodian government issued a statement condemning Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva for his remarks asking Cambodia to remove its national flag flying at the entrance of a disputed ancient temple which sits on the border, a senior Thai Foreign Affairs Ministry […]
TAK PROVINCE, Thailand – Navy Seabees and Thai Army engineers are constructing a new school building at Pa Ka Mai School to improve the quality of life of residents in the area as part of Exercise Cobra Gold 2011 Jan. 18 though Feb. 20, 2011. The schoolhouse construction is part of a series of humanitarian […]
