Five people including a French tourist were killed when a tour bus overturned Wednesday en route to a beach resort in southern Thailand, police said. Chumphon Police Colonel Narudaet Ingkhajan identified the French casualty as Delphine Jofette Raene Kiesser, 23. Read more: The Nation
Armed men tied up four Buddhist fruit traders then shot them in the head one by one in the latest gruesome attack in Yala in the deep South early yesterday. Police found the bodies of the victims, who included a woman, with their hands tied behind their backs, in a house in Krong. Read more: […]
NARATHIWAT, Feb 6 – Six Rohingya and Myanmar migrants were rescued in the southern border province of Narathiwat in a joint military and police operation. Fifty personnel from the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC)’s Region 4, military and the Thai Police Immigration Bureau raided six targets in Narathiwat’s Su-ngai Kolok municipality after being informed that […]
SONGKHLA, Feb 5 – A suspect involved with the deadly car bomb at Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel in this southern border province’s Hat Yai commercial centre was arrested on Tuesday after a year-long escape. A combined force of police, soldiers and administrative workers raided a house in Thepha district after intelligence reports confirmed that a […]
TRANG, 4 February 2013 (NNT) – The Trang Chamber of Commerce is ready to host the 17th Trang Underwater Wedding Ceremony 2013 to promote tourism opportunities in the province. The Trang Chamber of Commerce, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), as well as other participating local authorities and the private sector are joining hands launching […]
BANGKOK, Feb 4 – Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha admitted today there were flaws in the security measures for farmers under the state’s rice planting revival scheme in the far South which resulted in the fatal shootings of two trainer farmers from the central plains and the wounding of 10 others in Pattani province last Friday. […]
Sleeping mats and abandoned belongings were all Hat Yai police found when they raided a camp Thursday that was suspected of illegally harbouring 200 Rohingya migrants. Nearby residents later found 29 Rohingya wandering lost in the woods and alerted the authorities. Police believe they were among the 200 migrants from the empty camp and had […]
NARATHIWAT, 31 January 2013 (NNT) – Violence continued in the South. On Wednesday insurgents staged bomb attacks at three different locations in Narathiwat, killing one soldier. Inspecting the area bombed by insurgents close to Ban Jud Daeng School in Muang District, local police in Narathiwat found that a truck belonging to a teacher escort unit […]
