A young South African man was found dead in a house in Trang on Saturday and police are trying to determine what caused his death. The body of the 28-year-old man was found in a room in a rented house in Muang district. Bottles of beer, soft drinks, cigarette butts and an asthma inhaler were […]
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN — An American national was under arrest Friday for carrying a firearm, which he claimed was merely a fashion accessory, police said. Karl Hammer, 39, was detained by police Thursday night in Prachuap Khiri Khan’s city center after officers received a call from a 7-Eleven worker that he was licking the window […]
Narathiwat: One police officer was killed and five others wounded in a drive-by shooting attack Thursday at Rangae district police station while officers were assembled together outdoors. Four to five attackers travelling in the cargo tray of a silver Toyota Revo pickup drove slowly past the station about 8.50am. The assailants opened fire at about […]
LAND-rights campaigners in Trang say they caught “suspects” who had tried to obstruct their journey to Bangkok, adding that they believed them to be plainclothes policemen who intentionally planted amphetamine pills at the Khao Bantad Land Reform Network Office. The activists from People’s Movement for a Just Society (P-move) said officers had displayed “disgusting behaviour” […]
A Muslim man, who was the chief engineer of a tambon administrative organisation in the restive southern province of Pattani was gunned down Friday night, police said. Police said Abduloh Padohlee, 36, was shot at 9:30 pm by two gunmen at the roadside weekly market on the village road in Kamiyoh village in tambon Kamiyoh […]
Anti-narcotics officials and Nakhon Si Thammarat provincial police seized 52 kilogrammes of heroin and 300,000 methamphetamine tablets worth altogether about 200 million baht in Nakhon Si Thammarat on Thursday. Two Malaysians and a Thai national were arrested. They were identified as Manote Bainawee, a native of Satun province; Jeffrey bin Embai and Chun Kib-lee bin […]
The skipper of an 18-million baht yacht went missing after his vessel caught fire and capsized in the Gulf about 1.8 nautical miles from the coast of Tambon Pumriang, Chaiya district of Surat Thani province on Tuesday. The skipper was identified as Samran Pipatpalsakul, 36. Full story: thaipbs.or.th By Thai PBS Reporters
The Trang provincial court on Wednesday sentenced a man to 21 years and eight months in prison after finding him guilty of raping his own eight-year old daughter and force-feeding her with soft drink laced mixed with methamphetamine. The victim died of drug overdose after her father, Kittisak Thongyoi, forced her to drink soft drink […]
