SONGKHLA, March 15 – Songkhla District Court on Saturday fined some 200 Muslims refugees who claimed to be Turkish for illegal entry into the kingdom and seperately detained them to check whether they were actually from Turkey or involved with a human trafficking ring. Officials from the Songkhla Immigration Office brought the Muslim refugees–69 men, […]
SONGKHLA, March 14 – Police are trying to determine the nationality of about 200 people rescued from a human trafficking camp in this deep South province. Hat Yai Immigration Division 6 Chief Pol Maj Gen Thatchai Pitaneelaboot said the 200 Muslims suspected to be the Uighurs, a muslim group from China’s Xinjiang province, were rescued […]
PATTANI, March 14 – A 42-year-old female school teacher was shot to death and her body was then burnt in Mayo district of this violence-plagued southern border province. The victim, identified as Siriporn Srichai, drove her motorcycle on the Ban Cho Ba Ngae-Ban Ta Bing Ting Ngi Road in Lubo Yilai subdistrict of Mayo district […]
Thai police have discovered about 200 suspected Turkish refugees at a secret camp in the kingdom’s deep south, officials said Thursday, describing the case as “unprecedented”. Thailand has long been a hub for people trafficking, with thousands of Rohingya boat people from neighbouring Myanmar believed to have passed through the kingdom in recent years. Read […]
HUA HIN – An area of the seaside resort town of Hua Hin was left without power for one hour on Wednesday when a macaque monkey suffered a 22,000 volt shock after climbing an electricity pylon. Read more: Bangkok Post
BANGKOK, 9 March 2014 (NNT) – Koh Mak island in the eastern province of Trat is developed as a low carbon tourist destination by the Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration (DASTA). The environmental initiative is hoped to help stimulate tourism of the island and nearby areas and tap a larger market after the AEC […]
Two people were injured when a bomb exploded in front of the house of a former Narathiwat provincial councillor yesterday morning. The bomb, estimated to be 20kg and planted in a ditch near a power pole at the house’s entrance, exploded at about 10.40am. Read more: The Nation
BANGKOK, March 7 – A Russian national wanted for conspiracy in the drug trade has been arrested in Thailand following close Interpol collaboration. Thailand Interpol branch head, Police Colonel Apichart Suriboonya, led a news briefing on Friday following the arrest of a fugitive Russian suspect identified as Yuri Chemanov. Read more: MCOT
