Chumporn provincial governor Somdee Kachayoungyuen has ordered the closure of Chumporn marine park for a temporary indefinite period to all tourism-related and fishing activities from now on until further notice. He said that the closure order followed a survey report from the National Park Wildlife and Plants Conservation Department showing that coral reefs at and […]
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT – Two racing trailer-trucks are being blamed for an accident that clamed the lives of a tour bus driver and one passenger, and hospitalised 16 other passengers, on a highway in Chulaborn district on Wednesday morning. The bus driver and one passenger were killed, and 16 passengers injured. Earlier reports put the […]
YALA — A rubber-wood factory was torched, a military base hit with M79 grenades, and public facilities set ablaze in this southernmost province early on Monday, police said. In Bannang Sata district, a fire razed a warehouse owned by Sam Dao Parawood Co on Highway 410 at Cho Bantang village in tambon Bannang Sata. Full […]
A schoolteacher was killed and two policemen injured when their convoy transporting referendum ballot boxes was hit by a roadside bomb yesterday in Sai Buri district in Pattani. Pattani police chief Pol Maj General Thanongsak Wangsupa said the explosion took place at the entrance to Ban Sae Moh Moo 4. Full story: The Nation Supatcha […]
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN, 8 August 2016 (NNT) – Prachuap Khiri Khan Province is set to hold a forest planting ceremony to restore the fertility of Pranburi National Park honoring Her Majesty the Queen. Pranburi National Park Chief Somsak Kritatorn has revealed a forest planting ceremony will be taking place in the Pranburi estuary forest development […]
A MOTORCYCLE bomb exploded in front of a latex shop in Narathiwat’s Yi-ngor district early yesterday in what police believe was an attempt to cause chaos on referendum day. The blast caused damage to a number of properties and vehicles but no one was hurt. Full story: The Nation NARONG NUANSAKUL
Three people were wounded in two separate shooting attacks in Pattani’s Ma Yor and Khok Pho districts on Thursday night. In the Ma-Yor incident, an official from the Office of the Narcotics Control Board and a local were wounded in an ambush in Tambon La Nga at 10.30pm. Full story: The Nation
Violence continued in the Deep South with southern insurgents detonating bombs at nine locations in Bannang Sata and Thantho districts of Yala provinces, injuring two residents. The flare-up of violence came just one day ahead of the Sunday referendum to be held nationwide tomorrow. Full story: thaipbs.or.th
