Restaurant operator KFC will close its outlets in two of Thailand’s restive southern provinces after determining it couldn’t complete needed renovations. The fried-chicken chain said Tuesday the closures of two stores in Pattani and one in Yala were only temporary. Read more: Bangkok Post
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT — Nearly 150 suspected drug dealers and users were arrested in a pre-dawn anti-drug sweep across the southern province. More than 420 military and police officers launched simultaneous raids on 126 locations in all 23 districts of Nakhon Si Thammarat at 5am Monday. Read more: Bangkok Post
SURAT THANI — A burglar who robbed and slashed two 26-year-old Chinese tourists in their room on Koh Samui island has been arrested, police say. Wutthipong Yaworn, 23, has been accused of entering a bungalow on Chaweng beach in Bo Put district and slashing two women with a knife before robbing them of their belongings. […]
NARATHIWAT — A middle-aged woman was killed in a drive-by shooting by suspected separatists in Tak Bai district on Sunday afternoon. Dang Chankong, 62, was riding her new motorcycle home. Read more: Bangkok Post
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN – Three Japanese and two Danish tourists were injured on Saturday when a van transporting them from Bangkok ploughed into some roadside shops. Read more: Bangkok Post
A deputy chief of a police station in Yala province and his two subordinates were killed on their way back to work from evening Ramadan prayers in Krong Pinang district of Yala province late Thursday night. Read more: Bangkok Post
TRANG — A man accused of sexually assaulting his seven-year-old stepdaughter has been beaten to death in prison, police say, a day after he insisted he was innocent. Prasin Nunkaew, 41, was arrested yesterday and charged with raping his stepdaughter on 6 July at a rubber farm in Trang district. Mr. Prasin’s wife filed the […]
Two nursing students of Sirindhorn Health College were shot and killed at a market opposite Yaha Hospital in Yala province Wednesday, Manager Online reported. The incident occurred at about 3 pm when the two female students, training at the Yaha district hospital, were at the market getting food. The two students were identified as Suthira […]
