A Tuk Tuk driver in Songkhla’s Hat Yai district on Monday returned a belt bag with passport and Bt6,000 cash to a Norwegian tourist. Tuk Tuk driver Kosol Khlaikhlai, 48, said that he wanted to return the bag to Talia Ulaf Yufer, 44. Read more: The Nation
HAT YAI – Authorities have beefed up security in this bustling southern district to the highest level as the end of Ramadan draws near with tourists starting to return to the southern border tourist city. Songkhla police chief Pol Maj Gen Ekkapob Prasitwattanachai said on Sunday the security alert in Hat Yai had been raised […]
TRANG — Police are warning citizens and tourists in Trang to beware of counterfeit 1,000 baht banknotes circulating around the province. Pol.Maj.Gen. Jirawat Udomsuk, a commander of Trang provincial police, said he has received a number of omplaints about the fake bills in the past week. Read more: khaosod.co.th By Khaosod English
BANGKOK, July 26 – The National Human Rights Commission of Thailand on Saturday issued a statement condemning the Friday’s car bomb attack in the southern district of Betong which left three persons killed and more than 40 wounded. Charging that the barbarous act was tantamount to a severe violation of human rights, the statement said […]
A car bomb killed two and wounded eight near a cock-fighting ring in tambon Na Pradu, Khok Pho district, Pattani province, at 4.30pm on Wednesday. The explosives, packed on a pickup truck parked in front of the ring, were remotely detonated by a mobile phone, according to police. Read more: Bangkok Post
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT – A four-year-old died Monday after he was left in a closed, hot pickup truck for several hours. The driver of the vehicle was identified as Anusorn Junhroonruang, police said. Read more: Bangkok Post
A Myanmar woman and her new-born son died and three others are seriously ill through suffocation in their sleep in Muang district of Prachuap Khiri Khan on Sunday morning, Thairath Online reported. A team of police rushed to a rented house on Klong Wan-Wa Ko road in Muang district. Read more: Bangkok Post
NARATHIWAT, July 16 – The peat swamp forest in Thailand’s southern province of Narathiwat continues burning with a persistent smouldering fire for the fifth day despite heavy rain last night. The blaze has engulfed the hillside area straddling the Toh Dang swamp forest and Plak Pla village in Kosit subdistrict of Tak Bai for five […]
