SONGKHLA – The brutally beaten bodies of a couple who were abducted and their pickup later used as a car bomb have been found dumped in a river in Thepha district. The bodies of Kartpon Puwawimon, 51, and his wife Thitapa Puwawimon, 41, of Thepha district, were found in the Thepha River beneath Ruam Chai […]
The national telecom regulator will impose a mandatory online fingerprint ID system for new prepaid and postpaid mobile SIM card customers in the deep South to boost security, according to a highly placed source. The fingerprint ID system, expected to be launched by June following an order from the Royal Thai Army, will also be […]
Six defence volunteers were injured, three of them in serious condition, in a roadside bomb explosion in Kapor district of Pattani province on Friday. The six injured were among 12 defence volunteers riding on two armour-plated pickup trucks on their way back to base in Mai Kaen district from a training centre in Tambon Tha […]
Thailand’s 4th Army Region commander flew in a helicopter Friday to pick up an alleged Muslim insurgent in the Deep South who was turning himself in after eight years in hiding. Lt. Gen. Piyawat Nakwanich made the trip after Ahama Duere called to say he wished to surrender. Piyawat flew from Sena Narong military camp […]
PHUKET: An 18-year-old French tourist injured in an accident in Krabi last Wednesday (Feb 15) which left a mother, daughter and taxi driver dead has been transferred to a hospital in Bangkok where he is being treated for a brain haemorrhage. (name removed), 55, and her daughter Victoria, 18, were pronounced dead at the scene […]
CHUMPHON: — A fully loaded Bangkok bound tour bus from Surat Thani to Bangkok overturned in Chumporn injuring seven foreigners Channel 3 evening news reported. The other tourists on the bus were all adamant that the driver Punayawee Somsiri, 50, was drunk. Full story: Thaivisa News Thaivisa / Channel 3 evening news
SONGKHLA, 22 February 2017 (NNT) – Thailand’s Second Naval Area Command has seized three Vietnamese ships that were conducting illegal fishing activities in the Gulf of Thailand. Navy officials from the Takbai patrol ship arrived at Songkhla Naval Base to deliver the 12 Vietnamese crew members, who were arrested eight nautical miles off the coast […]
CHUMPHON – Police have arrested two men accused of slashing a Canadian man with a machete while trying to steal a gold necklace from his female Thai companion last week. The two suspects were identified by police as Yutthana Chumworathaayee, 36, and Sarawut Katerat, 35, both Chumphon natives. Full story: Bangkok Post BANGKOK POST ONLINE […]
