HUA HIN: — A Thai man with mental health issues went on a rampage at Hua Hin railway station yesterday. And later it emerged that he had tried to board with the wrong ticket. Railway police called the local police station for back-up around noon when the Bangkok to Surat Thani express was in the […]
Two mail truck drivers of Thailand Post were arrested after they were found to smuggle illegal migrant workers from Samut Sakhon and Prachuab Khiri Khan to the South early on Monday. All the 24 Myanmar migrant workers, 20 men and four women, were inside the two mail trucks when police and soldiers stopped the trucks […]
Songkhla’s oldest resident, Mrs Teep Damdaeng, died peacefully at the age of 120 years at her home in Hat Yai district on Wednesday. Grandma Teep was survived by five children with the eldest one being 86 years old and the youngest one being 74 years old. Full story: thaipbs.or.th Thai PBS
PHUKET: Police in Ao Nang, Krabi, say they have inspected and declared safe for climbing the rock face at Railay Beach where American tourist (name removed), 38, broke her leg in a six-metre plunge on March 5. Ms (name removed) was scaling the edifice with three friends when she fell, breaking her leg on landing. […]
Thaivisa has learnt that the Thai woman reported missing after taking a convicted US rapist for a teaching job in Rayong could be protecting him and helping him escape from justice. On Saturday the family of 29 year old Nittaya Polsripim – or Neung, an agent who finds jobs for foreigners – had gone on […]
Pieces of what were earlier believed to be human flesh found offshore in water during the search by teams of both local and foreign divers off Koh Tao’s Chalok Ban Kao beach were not human flesh, according to forensic police. Surat Thani police commander Pol Maj-Gen Apichart Bunsriroj said he was informed that the two […]
The team searching for a missing Russian woman at tourist-destination Koh Tao in Surat Thani found five pieces of human bones at rocks under the sea, Surat Thani Governor Uaychai Innak said. He said the bones were found at the dangerous spot where there is a strong whirlpool and strong current. Full story: The Nation […]
PHANG NGA, 9 March 2017 (NNT) – The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources found 30 orcas off Similan Islands in Phang Nga. Tourist boats are prohibited from disturbing them. Mr. Pinsak Suratsawadi, the Director of Marine and Coastal Resources Research and Development Institute, the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, said that he had […]
