BANGKOK, Sept 29 – Thailand’s Ministry of Energy has asserted it will push for a clean coal-fired power plant in the southern province of Krabi. Energy Ministry Permanent Secretary Areepong Bhoocha-oom said that electricity generation in the South cannot now serve the growing demand, especially from tourism and the service sector that is increasing by […]
Southern train services resume after train derailed near Songkhla’s Chana district last Thursday; police get clues leading to murderers of 2 British tourists. The train derailment in Songkhla’s Chana district last week may not have been the work of insurgents but probably due to theft. News source: MCOT
Motorcycle gunmen killed a deputy chairman of the Khao Khlung tambon administrative organisation (TAO) in Ban Pong district of Ratchaburi province and seriously wounded his wife on Monday morning, police said. Read more: Bangkok Post BANGKOK POST
Laboratory tests of the DNA found at the crime scene where two British tourists were battered to death on Koh Tao on Sunday do not match with the DNA of the suspects held in police custody, including a British national, according to well-informed sources from the National Police Office. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
Surat Thani police yesterday arrested a British tourist after he was suspected to have connection with the deaths of two fellow Britons in Koh Tao off Surat Thani coast. Police said they arrested him after employees of a resort on the beach told police that the suspect was seen strolling near the scene where the […]
BANGKOK — Autopsies of the two British tourists who were brutally murdered on the popular island of Koh Tao this week suggest the male victim physically fought someone before he died from head injuries and drowning. The naked bodies of David Miller, 24, and Hannah Witheridge, 23, were found on Haat Sai Ri beach on […]
SURAT THANI, Sept 16 – Three Myanmar labourers were brought in by the Thai authorities for questioning, after witnesses said the three men were seen drinking alcoholic drinks near the crime scene. Meanwhile, a representative has been sent from the British Embassy in Thailand to follow up the case of the two British tourists whom […]
YALA, 15 September 2014 (NNT) – People flocked to Yala train station this morning as it is now back in service after a 3-day closure due to a terrorist attack on the train tracks. The Yala train station this morning was very active as people returned to catch the first 453 train running between Yala […]
