BANGKOK, 2 July 2013 (NNT) – The Meteorological Department has reported that a powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake which struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra this afternoon was also felt in the South of Thailand. Residents in Phuket and Songkhla’s Hat Yai district reportedly sensed the tremor, which occurred 188 kilometers southeast of Banda Aceh, the […]
Eight soldiers were killed in a morning bomb attack in Yala’s Krongpinang district. Three of them died at the scene while the rest were pronounced dead at a hospital. They were on leave and heading home on an army truck from their army unit when explosives hidden on a road exploded. Two villagers who were […]
Ranong – The leader of the People’s Network of Ranong is demanding official action after the discovery of 20 Rohingya-established temples in the province, where illegal migrants are seeking to relocate into the country take refuge. Sucheep Patthong said residents of Ranong are insisting on legal inspections of the temples, set up by Rohingya migrants […]
BANGKOK, June 26 – The haze situation in Thailand’s southern region improved this morning as heavy smog from Indonesia has declined with less hot spots detected. Thailand’s Pollution Control Department found the number of hot spots in Indonesia’s Sumatra Island captured by satellite has fallen from 437 to 174, easing the smog situation which has […]
PATTANI, June 22 – One soldier was killed and five wounded after their vehicle was ambushed by a bomb attack while they were on patrol duty in Pattani’s Nong Chik district. Police said the soldiers, dispatched from Santisuk Centre, were on highway number 43 in Bo Thong subdistrict when their vehicle was hit by bomb […]
YALA, June 20 — Two persons were killed and five others were wounded in three separate assaults in Thailand’s restive southern border provinces of Yala and Pattani today. In Yala’s Raman district, a clash between security personnel and a group of militants in the morning left Madaree Tayae, a 42-year-old insurgent, as a fatality. A […]
A Chinese tourist was unluckily pinched by a boat propeller after jumping down the ocean in Phi Phi Island. He died as he was on his way to the hospital. PHUKET – June 19, 2013 [PDN]; An unfortunate accident happened to a 37 year-old Chinese tourist who was identified as Mr. Chen Peng. It was […]
SURAT THANI, June 15 – Some 100 households in four villages of Surat Thani’s Phrasaeng district have been affected by flooding due to continuous heavy rain in the area over several days. The heavy rains caused the I-pan canal to overflow its banks and flood four nearby villages along with five local roads linking each […]
