POLICE in the southern Surat Thani province yesterday intensified the search for a Russian tourist who went missing two weeks ago, amid suspicions she might have got in trouble while snorkelling off Koh Tao. Valentina Novozhenova, 23, disappeared from a Koh Tao hotel on February 16, the day she was supposed to check out after […]
Thai authorities started the search of the missing Russian female tourist and diver Ms Valentina Novozhenova for the fifth consecutive day this morning after she went missing from her hotel room on February 15. The search, both on shore and in the air was taken part by over a hundred of local officials, volunteers, air […]
YALA – A local leader was killed in a gun attack in front of his house in Muang district on Saturday morning. Madolor Salae, 56, chairman of Porseng tambon administration organisation in Muang district, was getting out of his white Toyota Fortuner to close the gate of his house in tambon Sateng when two men […]
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, 4th March 2017 (NNT) – A group of businessmen from Malaysia has donated a sum of money to the victims of the devastating floods that swept through southern Thailand in January. Nakhon Si Thammarat Governor Sakon Chantharak this week greeted a group of businesspersons from Malaysia’s Kelantan state, who presented him with […]
SONGKHLA – Two women died when their car plunged from the third floor of the parking building at a department store in Hat Yai on Thursday evening. The car landed upside down, crushing the two occupants inside it. They were identified as Pattama Phudsri and Pornthip Boonsingsri, both residents of Thepha district. Full story: Bangkok […]
Local authorities today issued an ultimatum ordering a resort hotel at Koh Tao island in Pha-ngan district in Surat Thani to dismantle it’s long and steep slider built from the top of a hill to the beach saying the structure is violating the law. The order was given to the Saidaeng resort hotel operator to […]
Four people were killed and another was seriously injured when a group of southern militants ambushed a pickup truck carrying students to school in Rusor district of Narathiwat province this morning. Initial report said Somchai Thongchai, a village headmaster, was driving his pickup truck to deliver students to a village school when mikitants hiding by […]
The body of a foreign tourist found February 15 on Haad Rin beach in Pha-ngan district of Surat Thani was believed to belong to a British tourist who went missing since February 12. This was revealed today by Pol Lt Col Somsak Noorod, deputy superintendent of Koh Pha-ngan police station. He said the body of […]
