Two members of a drug-trafficking gang have been arrested and 100kg of crystal methamphetamine worth about 300 million baht seized in Chumphon’s Pathiu district, police said on Saturday. Songkran Omkorkul, 32, a resident of Udon Thani’s Ban Dung district, and Somchai Thajampa of Roi Et’s Kaset Wisai district were taken to a police press conference […]
SURAT THANI — A French tourist died and another was seriously injured after they fell from a waterfall on Koh Samui today. The two tourists were found on the rocks near the base of the Na Mueang Song waterfall by police officers and rescue workers, who pronounced one of the victims dead on the scene […]
Nok Air Flight DD7805, travelling from Nakhon Si Thammarat to Don Mueang with more than 200 passengers and crew on board, made an emergency landing at Surat Thani airport on Sunday morning after hitting a large bird, Thairath Online reported. The aircraft departed from Nakhon Si Thammarat airport at 7.40am. Read more: Bangkok Post BANGKOK […]
The director of the Songkhla Provincial Office of Buddhism has been arrested for allegedly pocketing 3.2 million baht from the budget of a temple in Narathiwat province. athien Damrongrat was captured on Friday after Phra Khru Borihan Sangathanuwat, secretary of Wat Chontharawas in Rangae district of Narathiwat, handed him 3.2 million baht in cash in […]
TRAT — A British man was on the road with his family to an island vacation in the east of Thailand this morning when the truck he was riding in smashed head-on into another, killing him. A dozen people – 11 from one vehicle and one from the other – were injured when two pickup […]
A marine was killed and two other colleagues were wounded when Muslim militants detonated a powerful 25-kilo home made bomb while they were patrolling on Highway 302 in Bacho district of Narathiwat province this morning. The explosion happened in front of a mosque. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
PHETCHABURI — A group of Muslims rallied yesterday against a food company’s plan to construct a pork processing plant near their community southwest of Bangkok. Around 50 members of a Muslim community in the Cha Am district of Phetchaburi province submitted a petition to officials over the construction of a facility they say is an […]
NARATHIWAT — An assistant village chief was killed and a defence volunteer critically wounded in a drive-by shooting in Chanae district Tuesday evening. Pol Lt Col Wisoot Bureemart, an investigator at Chanae police station, said the attack occurred at about 5pm at a roadside shelter near a tea shop in tambon Padung Mart. Read more: […]
