Spillover of fighting in Burma injures Thais Rocket propelled grenade fired during skirmish between Burmese troops and rebels landed on the Thai side in Tak province, reportedly killing one Thai and wounding three others. Fighting broke out Monday between Burmese troops and rebels belonging to the Karen ethnic minority who seized key government offices in […]
TAK, Nov 7– Myanmar soldiers were deployed along Thai-Myanmar border at the Moei River after a Japanese journalist was arrested in Myanmar’s Myawaddy for illegally crossing the border from Thailand. Responding to the detention of the Japanese journalist late Sunday morning, the combined forces of Myanmar military and Border Guard Force personnel have been stationed […]
SA KAEO, Nov 1 – A Nigerian man on Monday was detained at the Thai-Cambodian border province of Sa Kaeo with 367 grammes of heroin, valued at Bt1.4 million (some $47,000), according to Pol Lt-Col Seksan Wattanapong, chief of Khlong Luek Police Station. Nigerian national Iyiobi Ifeanyi, 38, was apprehended in Thailand’s Aranyaprathet district on […]
BANGKOK, 26 October 2010 (NNT) – Villagers in Pompetchetch community, in the province of Ayutthaya, are speeding up the building of sandbag water barriers as the water level in the area has risen to nearly 1 meter deep. They are also geared up to prevent a historical site from being ruined. Several ancient sites in […]
Chiang Rai – Four North Korean women surrendered to police in this northern province late Sunday and asked for help to be resettled in a third country. The four women, who could not speak Thai and English, carried their bags to meet police at the Chiang Rai Mung police station at 15 minutes after midnight. […]
BANGKOK, 18 October 2010 (NNT) – The State Railway of Thailand has canceled part of its northeastern and northern train services in light of flood. The State Railway of Thailand yesterday disclosed that it had canceled part of its services to and from the Northeast and the North. All services north of Nakorn Sawan have […]
CHIANG MAI, Oct 6 – Over 400 new patients in the northern region of Thailand have been diagnosed as infected with Influenza Type A(H1N1) in only the month of September, the Office of Disease Prevention and Control 10 in Chiang Mai reported on Wednesday. Following the ongoing spread of the A(H1N1) virus in the eight […]
Floods stranded more than 40 tourists at several resorts in Ratchaburi’s Suan Phung district after bridges to other areas were damaged. Soldiers and local villagers were trying to build a temporary bridge late yesterday before sending vehicle-loads of food to villagers and the stranded tourists. Officials were also considering dispatching flat-bottomed boats to bring the […]
