Some 100 police officers Thursday searched a palm oil plantation in Krabi’s Khao Phanom district where three people A search of worker shacks and a storage area unearthed bullets. Read more: The Nation By The Nation
A “missing” British backpacker feared kidnapped in southern Thailand has been “found” alive and well after his panicked family sent out a worldwide appeal for help after not hearing from him for four days. Jordan Jacobs, 21, from the English town of Lyneham in Wiltshire, was found by police on a beach in Krabi province […]
PANG-NGA, 17 December 2015 (NNT) – Whale sharks have been sighted again by national park officials in Pang-nga bay. Whale sharks had been earlier sighted in Pang-nga bay before they were reported to have moved down to Hong Island off nearby Krabi province last October. Read more: NNT National News Bureau of Thailand
A police officer suspected of raping a Lao woman killed two higher-ranked officers at Pluak Daeng police station in Rayong before being shot dead by a colleague Monday afternoon. The shooting happened at 3.15pm as Pol Sen Sgt Maj Shinkrit Phutthipraphas was brought to see Pol Col Somchai Soonthornwanich, chief of the Pluak Daeng station, […]
A paramilitary ranger was killed and his father seriously injured when suspected militants detonated a bomb as they were performing a burial ceremony for his dead mother at a graveyard in Yala’s Muang district Sunday morning. The dead victim was identified as Zai Jehdoma who was attached to the 43rd paramilitary ranger regiment. Read more: […]
The explosive ordnance disposal team Monday defused a pipe bomb planted on a motorcycle parked in front of a bank branch in Narathiwat’s Muang district. It was suspected the bomb targeted the Marines who would patrol the area every morning or was intended to destroy the district’s economic climate. Read more: The Nation
A group of political activists detained by the military on Monday morning as they were heading for the Rajabhakti Park in Hua Hin by train purportedly to “search for cheats” in the park project have been released. Their release Sunday night followed the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the military and the group, […]
A team of rangers clashed with a group of militants in tambon Bacho in Bannang Sata district in Yala province on Sunday and at least two militants were believed wounded. The clash occurred at about 8am as the rangers were laying siege to Ubae village on a tip that at least 10 separatist militants would […]
