KRABI — Navy personnel rescued four Chinese tourists from rough seas after their boat foundered in harsh weather Wednesday afternoon, an officer said. The boat captain had ignored a rough seas warning to take the four on a tour of islands off the coast of Krabi province prior to the accident, according to Chief Petty […]
MORE THAN 20 per cent of inmates at the Narathiwat Prison have come down with the H1N1 flu, with two fatalities so far. Of the 1,649 inmates and prison officials at the correctional facility, 379 have tested positive for the deadly H1N1. Full story: The Nation Piyanuch Thamnukasetchai
NARATHIWAT – Eight people, including two senior officials, were injured when a motorcycle bomb went off as their vehicle went passed on a local road in Si Sakhon district around noon on Wednesday. The attack occurred on the road where Si Sa Khon district’s defence volunteer outpost at Sakor village is located, said Pol Capt […]
SONGKHLA/YALA – Two patrol policemen and one civilian were injured and two pickup trucks damaged in two separate bomb blasts in Songkhla’s Saba Yoi and neighbouring Kabang district of Yala on Tuesday morning. In Yala, a home-made bomb planted in the middle of a section of Kabang-Saba Yoi Road in Kabang district went off at […]
BANGKOK, 2 August 2016 (NNT) – The Ministry of Interior has ordered provincial governors of the Southern border provinces to intensify security protection in the area in response to the recent act of vandalism. Ministry of Interior Permanent-Secretary Grisada Boonrach spoke on the reported acts of vandalism where vandals sprayed disturbing messages in public areas, […]
PHETCHABURI — Security officials briefly closed part of Cha-am railway station after a fake bomb was discovered under a tree in front of the busy train building on Sunday morning. A bomb disposal unit with sniffer dogs from the Naresuan police camp in Cha-am district was deployed to the scene after a motorcycle taxi driver […]
Two civilians – a man and a woman – were separately shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Narathiwat province on Friday. The first incident took place at about 4 pm on the Narathiwat-Sungai Padi road in Ban Yaning, Cho Airong district. It was reported that the victim, 36-year old Manapiyoh Hajijehmu, was tending to some […]
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN — Friday night’s usual craziness got an early start in Prachuap Khiri Khan city, with the discovery of a French man lying naked in the middle of the road. The 62-year-old Frenchman decided to get some rest just on Sala Cheep Road in front of the Emmanuel Guesthouse where he had been […]
