About 200 male prisoners staged a noisy protest inside the Lop Buri prison, destroyed some property, and threatened to set fires on Thursday, but the situation was eventually brought under control, Corrections Department deputy director-general Thanis Sriyaphan said. Mr Thanis said the protest began shortly before noon and was led by about 50 inmates who […]
TAK, 18 November 2010 (NNT)-The unrest which continues to exacerbate along the Thai-Burmese border has prompted the Burmese authority to impose a ban on commodity deliveries across the border at night, indirectly forcing businesses to close earlier than usual. Cross-border trades have been hectic and in a rush, as the Burmese authority allows merchants to […]
The Chiang Rai Provincial Police have charged two men with possession of one million methamphetamine pills. Twenty nine year old Dumnuen Parnpimpuem and Suwit Khumsak have been arrested by Chiang Rai’s Mae Chan Police, for possession of one million methamphetamine pills. The two were nabbed at Tha Klao Pluak checkpoint on a local road in […]
BANGKOK, Nov 15 — More than 200 ethnic Karen escaped fresh fighting between Myanmar troops and the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) late Sunday night to Ban Wale in Tak’s Phop Phra district. The DKBA reportedly fired mortars and small weapons at Myanmar soldiers and both sides exchanged gunfire sporadically late last night. The combined […]
By Sawan, November 24, 2010 – For some products and services in Myanmar, it’s mentioned that the particular products and service industries are ISO certified, but it never mentioned that the ISO certified is from which country and the registration number of the ISO certification. May be, it is a kind of fraud. All sort […]
BANGKOK, Nov 13 — Thirteen provinces in the north and northeastern regions Thailand are now hit by a cold spell, and the Meteorological Department forecasts that frigid temperatures in the North this year will be much more severe than in past years. Altogether 14,260 villages in the 13 provinces are currently affected by the cold […]
Tens of thousands of refugees have started to return to Burma after the fighting that followed the country’s election subsided. Some 20,000 people fled over the border to Thailand after armed confrontation broke out between the government and ethnic rebels. Many of those displaced returned back across the river into Burma after government forces chased […]
About 10,000 people from Myanmar fled across the border into Thailand on Monday to escape fighting between Myanmar government forces and a splinter group of rebels of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, military and border officials told CNN. The rebels and Myanmar forces clashed over control of the town of Myawaddy, which sits across the […]
