HAT RIN: — Police raided a tattoo shop in Hat Rin, Koh Phangan yesterday and arrested a husband and wife on charges of defaming the monarchy. They were named as Bank, 33, and Dear, 27, and were reported after comments appeared on their page on Facebook. They were reported by a neighbor, reports Thairath. Full […]
PHUKET: A teacher in Krabi has surrendered to police after he was alleged to have stabbed a school principal to death yesterday (Oct 25) at the province’s Baan Khao Tiem School. Mr Anan Wandarae, 40, turned himself in at Ao Nang Police Station shortly after the stabbing incident, and police are now questioning him over […]
Three were killed and 22 injured in a separate bombing and shooting in Thailand’s Deep South on Monday, the eve of the 12th anniversary of an infamous incident that helped inflame a separatist conflict. A bomb explosion outside a noodle stall killed a woman and injured 21 other people at a market in Pattani province […]
SURAT THANI – An Australian tourist is walking from Koh Samui to Bangkok to pay respects to King Bhumibol at the Grand Palace. Michael Hammill heard about the passing of the King last Thursday while on a three-month vacation on the resort island in this southern province. Full story: Bangkok Post SUPAPONG CHAOLAN
PHANG NGA, 13 October 2016 (NNT) – A representative of the office of Her Royal Highness Princess Bajrakitiyabha’s Affairs and Initiative presented a shirt with a message reading “Good People We Admire” to a Phang Nga taxi driver who helped a Belgian tourist retrieve stolen money. The Takua Pa Provincial Chief Public Prosecutor Jetsada Kheaochai, […]
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT — A 65-year-old man and his wife and nephew narrowly escaped death after he drove his pickup through a guarded railway crossing and was hit by a train early on Sunday morning. The accident occurred on the crossing about 300 metres from Nabon train station in tambon Nabon of Nabon district at […]
BANGKOK, 9 October 2016 (NNT) – Scenic island bays in the Andaman Sea off Krabi province, which had been temporarily closed, are reopening to tourism. Tanya Netithammakul, director general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, said Tachai Bay in Similan islands and Maya Bay in Pipi islands off Krabi will reopen […]
YALA, 8 October 2016 (NNT) – Water scarcity threatens in the southern region of Thailand as water supplies in Yala will not last until the end of the year unless the province experiences increased rainfall. According to a report, the water level in Banglang Dam in Yala province was measured at 88 meters above ground […]
