A hotel room in Sai Kaew Beach went up in flames, the tourists that were trapped in burning apartment were all successfully rescued. TRAT – July 22,2013 [PDN]; The fire was reported to have broken up at about 07.00 PM at the 3rd floor of the Gold Beach Resort. Local people and tourists around the […]
Before unrest erupted and started raging across the deep South, the Buddha Chalerm Temple or Wat Hua Saphan in Yala used to be a centre of activity, with both Buddhists and muslims taking part. “The locals carried out activities at the temple and the local mosque,” a villager recalled fondly. Read more: The Nation
PATTANI, July 20 – Three people were gunned down and one person was injured in two separate roadside shooting attacks on Saturday in Thailand’s far South, despite a ceasefire agreement during the muslim fasting month of ramadan between the Thai government and the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) militant group. The first incident occurred in Pattani’s […]
(17 July) More than a dozen of foreign tourists were admitted to hospital after their tour bus crashed into a bridge crossing Tapee River in Mueang District, Surat Thani province. At the scene, police found the bus, registered to A.S.R. Transport Inc., stuck beneath the Tapee River Bridge near the province′s City Pillar Shrine, with […]
Fire ravaged a Buddhist monk’s shop, which sold fireworks among other items, in downtown Songkhla’s Hat Yai district yesterday. Twelve people were reported hurt and eight rooms of the seven-storey commercial building damaged. Read more: The Nation
Two members of Satun’s Sakai ethnic minority have died of typhoid and three others are in a serious condition, deputy governor Utarn Pichyaporn said yesterday. Utarn said 50 other members of the minority living in Satun’s Thung Wa district had been asked not to move, to prevent the disease of spreading. Read more: The Nation
Eight soldiers were slightly injured in a roadside bomb attack in Yala’s Raman district on Thursday. The authority suspected the insurgent group led by Saifulloh Balor, which is active in the area, carried out this attack. Read more: The Nation
PHANG-NGA, July 4 – A villager was killed by a landslide as floodwater has risen and extended over wider areas in the southern province of Phang-nga. Main roads in Thai Mueang and Takua Pa districts are inaccessible as the water level is about 60 centimetres deep and is flowing swiftly. Read more: MCOT
