An elderly man is missing and his wife was injured when a tourist boat struck their small craft on the reservoir of the Ratchaprapha dam in Surat Thani province on Saturday. Prajit Saisema, 69, and his wife were traveling in a small boat towing 400 bamboo logs to supply raft operators on the reservoir. Read […]
A MAN was killed and 14 people, including security officials, were injured after a fire-bomb and motorcycle bomb attack in Songkhla’s Thepa district on Tuesday evening, security officials said yesterday. An 11-year old Muslim boy was among the injured. Read more: The Nation
PHETCHABURI — The body of an unidentified woman was found dead with her hands and feet bound outside a hilltop historical park in Muang district on Tuesday. The woman, aged around 25-30, was lying face up at the stairs to Phra Nakhon Khiri Historical Park in tambon Khlong Krasaeng, said Pol Capt Akkharamet Singsang, a […]
KRABI — A combined task force of security officers and Muslim clerics yesterday raided the home of a 62-year-old man in Krabi who decreed himself the new prophet of Islam. Meed Mamart was given a stern lecture Saturday to stop his blasphemous actions, and his heretical writings were burned for good measure, the clerics said, […]
SURAT THANI — A 40-year-old Austrian man was found dead on a beach on Koh Samui on Saturday morning. The body was found lying face-up on a mattress on the beach in front of a hotel in tambon Bophut on the resort island, said Pol Capt Daenchai Buntham, a deputy investigation chief at the Bophut […]
Riot broke out in Yala central prison where 1,000 prisoners are housed late this morning, forcing the prison authorities to call in soldiers and police to help maintain peace and order. Several prisoners were injured in the riot which initially was triggered by quarrel among prisoners. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
TRANG, 9 April 2016 (NNT) – United States Ambassador to Thailand and his consort met with Trang Governor Detrat Simsiri at Trang Airport, discussing the province’s tourism industry and steps to solve the issue of Illegal and Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. United States Ambassador to Thailand, Glyn T. Davies said that Trang is host […]
Three security officers were wounded, one seriously, in separate bomb and grenade attacks in the troubled southern provinces of Pattani and Yala on Friday night and Saturday morning. In Pattani, a roadside bomb went off in tambon Bang Khao in Nong Chik district as an eight-member police team travelling on a motorcycle and a pickup […]
