A chartered school bus from Hat Yai to Hua Hin skidded and flipped over on Highway 41 in Surat Thani early this morning, killing one girl student and injuring 26 others. The bus was ferrying 46 secondary students of Hat Yai Withaya school in Hat Yai district of Songkhla province to Prachhap Khiri Khan’s Hua […]
CHUMPHON — Thung Tako and Lang Suan districts have been hit by floods following a heavy rainstorm that also sank a fishing boat in the sea off Chumphon, leaving seven crew missing. According to local media, from about 10pm on Tuesday a flash flood inundated Highway 41 between kilometre markers 47 and 48 in front […]
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN – A waterway that has long attracted gold panners in Bang Saphan district is drawing new fortune seekers after the recent floods exposed fresh deposits of gold – which local residents see as a fitting return for the misery they suffered. Klong Thong in tambon Ron Thong has been a good source […]
A 60-year-old British tourist was drowned after he drank liquor and went to swimming at Ao Putra on Ko Samet yesterday. He was identified as (name removed) from Nottingham, UK. Ban Phae district police in Rayong province said they were alerted of the incident by Sawangporn rescue team at Ban Phae at 6 pm after […]
YALA – A member of the RKK insurgent group was killed in a fight with a government security unit in Raman district early on Monday. About 3am, a combined team of military and police led by Col Sithisak Jenbanchong, commander of the 41st Rangers Regiment, and Pol Col Puwanart Kaewnoy, the Raman police chief, laid […]
A 23-years-old man from Buriram survived a suicide attempt after jumping onto train tracks in Phetchaburi railway station. A CCTV footage shows a man jumping under a train and lying down on a railway track as a train passes over him. Apparently the man is ‘sliced in half’ as a train runs over him but […]
The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation has now set ultimatum for 56 resorts and hotels encroaching on national park on Ko Samet to leave the places. The deadline for owners of these places were given until February 19 to demolish all the constructions built illegally on the beach in Khao Laem Ya-Ko […]
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT — A team of crocodile hunters were searching Friday for a five-meter croc named Nadia who slipped her bonds to escape captivity a zoo in the south of Thailand. Friday morning’s search had yet to find the renegade reptile whose liberation was aided when her Nakhon Si Thammarat province zoo was hit […]
