Military and police forces launched a crackdown on dark influential figures on Koh Samui as part of the campaign to put the house in order. Four suspects were arrested and five guns of unspecified calibres as well as ammunition were seized on the first day of the crackdown, code-named Fa Sarng (Dawn), which focused on […]
Police seized 90,000 methamphetamine pills in Songkhla province’s Hat Yai district on Friday after two couriers tried to run through a checkpoint, however the suspects managed to flee on foot. Police spotted a black Toyota pickup approaching a checkpoint on Tha Sai Road in Moo 1 village in Tambon Klong Hae at 7.30pm. Full story: […]
Suspected insurgents mounted 13 simultaneous attacks in three of Thailand’s southernmost provinces late Wednesday, and two of them were accidentally killed in a bomb explosion, officials said. At least 10 attacks involved bombs or grenades, while the others were shootings, according to official information. There were 13 attacks in all – seven in Narathiwat, three […]
Suspected southern militants launched grenade and gun attacks on 13 targets in three southernmost provinces of Pattani, Narathiwat and Songkhla Wednesday night. Officials said that these were the first coordinated attacks after the end of the Songkran festival. The attacks occurred at about 7 pm. Full story: thaipbs.or.th By Thai PBS Reporters
PHUKET: Police have yet to confirm the identity of a body of a woman found floating in the sea near Koh Lanta Noi, on the Krabi coast, yesterday (April 18). Lt Cdr Peeraphat Phatthanasophon together with five officers from the Royal Thai Naval station at Koh Lanta Noi arrived at the village of Koh Son, […]
KRABI — An official of the Hat Noppharat Thara – Phi Phi Islands National Park has been charged with fraud after being caught reselling used entry tickets to visitors. Theerayut Boonlert, chief of the park’s security office on Koh Poda island, said he filed a complaint with Ao Nang police in Muang district after a […]
Marine scientists and researchers are considering making seabed around Libong island in Trang province which is rich with sea grass a special and no-fishing zone for the protection and propagation of dugong population. Mr Kongkiat Kittiwattanawong, director of Centre for Research and Development of Marine Resources and Andaman Sea Coast, said that the ecological system […]
NARATHIWAT – Police are hunting the remaining four of the 16 young men escaping on Sunday from the Juvenile Observation and Protection Centre in this southern province. After being alerted of the jailbreak, police and the soldiers sealed off the facility and monitored all routes in a two-kilometre radius to the facility, located in the […]
