Some 250 Rohingya men aged 15-40 swam ashore in Satun’s Thung Wa district yesterday morning after their boat was hit by a monsoon storm and their 15-day supply of food ran out. Two of the Rohingya men were seriously ill and reportedly remained on the boat. Read more: The Nation
YALA, Sept 11 – Five police officers were killed in an attack by gunmen during a crackdown on oil smuggling in this predominantly ethnic Malay Muslim southern province today, a military spokesman said. Col Pramote Prom-in, spokesman of the Internal Security Operations Command’s 4th Region, said the police vehicle was overtaken by a pick-up truck […]
Several villages on Koh Libong, off the coast of Trang, have been flooded after several days of heavy rain, with mudslides blocking several roads and disrupting travel in and out of the island. Some 30 homes in three villagers are under up to a metre of water – something that happens every time there is […]
RAYONG, Aug 29 – Sixteen Vietnamese and 23 Cambodians were arrested when Thai authorities seized nine Vietnamese trawlers at a pier in this eastern seaboard province yesterday. Prasart Kemaprasit, Rayong immigration police commander, said the nine fishing boats were delivering squid to Thai traders in the provincial seat. Read more: MCOT MCOT
With 10 trains cancelled on the route from Bangkok to Thailand’s south, officials at Songkhla’s Hat Yai Train Station took the opportunity of a quiet Wednesday to organise a “Big Cleaning Day” event to clean and maintain all trains so that they are ready to operate as soon as service resumes. Read more: The Nation
The demolition of three big resorts, built illegally in the midst of the sea on Rayong’s Koh Samet, was begun yesterday by the state environmental protection agency. More than 500 national park officials were deployed to destroy the three resorts – Muk Samet, Unseen, and Ploy Samet – which had been built in the middle […]
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN – A trainer aircraft carrying two men crash landed on a beach about 600 metres from Hua Hin aiport on Wednesday morning. No injuries were reported. The plane, an Austrian-built DA40, was heavily damaged. The two people on board were unharmed. Read more: Bangkok Post
NARATHIWAT, Aug 17 – Four suspects were detained for involvement with the killing of four police officers in a violent attack on a police pick up truck in Narathiwat’s Rueso district on Friday. Rueso district chief Worachet Phrom-opas said that after the incident, security forces searched the area and detained four suspects, males aged between […]
