CHUMPHON – A young man has been arrested at a road checkpoint in Tha Sae district while trying to smuggle 300,000 speed pills from a central province to the South. An anti-drug task force stopped for a search a Toyota car with a Bangkok licence plate at the checkpoint on southbound Phetkasem Road in tambon […]
Police said four people were shot and killed in three provinces of Thailand’s insurgent-stricken Deep South on Friday, including a local sub-district chief. The killings prolonged a deadly trend in February, bringing to seven the number of people killed so far this month in a series of attacks in the southern border region. The first […]
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: The huge floating garbage island in the Gulf of Thailand is largely plastic waste and a threat to marine life, according to authorities who say it will take 10 days to clear. The trash slick was located again by an aerial survey on Friday, 10 kilometres away from its position on Thursday. […]
PATTANI — The chairman of a tambon administration organisation (TAO) was killed by gunmen in Yaring district on Friday morning, police said. Sama-ae Dolo, 63, chairman of Piya Mumang TAO, was driving his Toyota pickup truck from his house to work. Along the way he was followed by three armed hooded men in a Mitsubishi […]
A large garbage patch extending up to over 10 kilometres long was spotted drifting in the Gulf of Thailand, but still does not pose threat to the country’s ecosystem. The photo of the huge garbage patch was posted on the Internet by marine expert Dr Thon Thamrongnawasawat, deputy dean at the Fisheries Faculty of Kasetsart […]
SONGKHLA — An elderly woman was killed when she drove her motorcycle around a lowered barrier and was hit by a train at a crossing in Hat Yai district on Thursday morning, police said. Eyewitnesses told police the accident occurred about 10am. The motorcycle was hit by train No.948 (Padang Besar – Hat Yai) at […]
TRANG – A combined police-military unit on Wednesday night raided the house of a latex trader in Ratsada district and seized about 1.2 million methamphetamine pills hidden in two refrigerators, police said. They surrounded house No.18 in Moo 2 of tambon Khuan Mao about 10pm on information it had been used for storing drugs before […]
BANGKOK, 8 February 2017 (NNT) – The Command Center for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation revealed that the South of Thailand no longer suffers from the flood crisis. The command center has instructed provincial authorities to survey the flood damage and help people repair their homes within 30 days. Full story: NNT Reporter: Nuppol Suvansombut Rewriter: […]
