Officials and foundation Sunday rescuers rescued a 25-year-old German tourist who was stranded on the Mong Lai Mountain in Prachuap Khirikhan’s Muang district for 15 hours. Officials managed to reach the tourist and led him down the mountaintop at noon. Read more: The Nation
A pair of light fingered British backpackers have become the laughing stock of Thai social media after they were caught on camera stealing food from the plate of a fellow diner before getting a tongue lashing, and a slap on the back of the hand, from one of the cafe employees. A worker at the […]
A Turkish tourist was shot dead outside a Koh Samui pub early Friday, allegedly by a security guard who argued with him outside the Chaweng beach bar. The unidentified 34-year-old Turk sustained gunshots to the head and abdomen. Read more: Bangkok Post
BANGKOK, Feb 9 – Thai authorities have arrested drug trafficking suspects in the South with methamphetamine pills and heroin worth more than Bt40 million. The five suspects are from the “Mayakee” syndicate that eerlier hid Bt 30 million in pipes in a Narathiwat rubber plantation in 2007. Read more: MCOT
PATTANI, 3 February 2015 (NNT)-The Internal Security Operations Command (ISCO) Region 4 has alerted all security units in the Deep South to keep the area under tight surveillance following intelligent tip-offs. The ISOC Region 4 has raised security levels after it was reported that insurgent groups were planning to carry out attacks regionwide. Read more: […]
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, 30 January 2015 (NNT) – The Nakhon Si Thammarat Airport has been upgraded into a customs airport and is prepared to receive international passengers for direct international flights. The ministerial directive from the Ministry of Finance had pushed for the upgrade of Nakhon Si Thammarat Airport into a customs airport since 1 […]
A link to the missingabroad.org website is circulating on social media today appealing for information regarding a missing British backpacker, Lauren Hebden, 27, whose last known location was said to be Koh Tao. Read more: stickboybangkok.com
Six Cambodian workers and their Thai driver were killed when a chartered van crashed into a tree and overturned in Songkhla’s Chana district at 4.30am Friday, police said. The van was transporting legal immigrant workers from Sa Kaew province to Sugnai Kolok. Police believe the driver dozed off because of tiredness, leading to the accident. […]
