TRANG: — Police in Trang in Southern Thailand have charged a 66 year old grandmother with selling her own granddaughter for sex. A 72 year old man is in custody for rape. When the teenager got pregnant and had a child from the old man, gran forced her out onto the streets to have sex […]
An elderly couple died from suffocation in a predawn fire at a bean curd factory in Photaram district of Ratchaburi province on Monday. Photaram police said the fire happened at a two-storey factory building on Soi Rat-uthit road in Photaram town a 2.30am. Full story: thaipbs.or.th Thai PBS
Tourists were prohibited from swimming at the Maya Bay in Krabi Monday after Portuguese man-of-war was sighted in the sea. Sarayut Tanthien, chief of the Hat Nopphrat Thara – Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park, said the park issued the prohibition for the sake of safety of the tourists. Full story: The Nation By The […]
A dog waiting for her owner on a roadside in Chanthaburi has died after being run over by a vehicle. Loung, a three-year-old Thai breed, was found dead on Sukhumvit road in Muang district, where she had stayed for more than a year waiting for her owner to take her home, the Daily News reported […]
BANGKOK, 24 September 2016 (NNT) – The Defense Technology Institute gave the military drone prototypes to be used in the violence-torn region. Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan, on behalf of the Defense Technology Institute, handed out unmanned aerial vehicles to the Thai army, the Royal Thai Police, the Department of Special […]
SURAT THANI – A policeman who opened fire on a crowd after a brawl at a pub on Koh Samui overnight has been dismissed from the force and faces multiple charges of murder and attempted murder. Two people were shot dead, one a fellow policeman, and five others wounded, two of them also policemen, during […]
YALA – Three policemen were killed and two others wounded when a bomb exploded under their vehicle in Krong Pinang district, Yala, on Friday. Seven police from Krong Pinang were travelling on two pickup trucks along a local road in Ban Benya, ferreting out information on drug gangs and militants, when a bomb placed in […]
YALA, 22 September 2016 (NNT) – Chinese descendants in Yala province have organized an event to commemorate China’s National Day to celebrate the longstanding relations between Thailand and China. The event took place at Yala Rama Hotel in the capital district. Deputy Secretary-General of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Command Supanat Sirantawinet and Yala Deputy […]
