BANGKOK, 14 January 2012 (NNT) – Continued heavy rain that has hit Thailand’s South has caused widespread flooding in several parts of the region. Flash flood from the Sankalakhiri mountain range in Narathiwat Province has submerged farmland and houses of locals in Sukhirin District and damaged the Sukhirin-Narathiwat Road. Meanwhile, water level in the Sungai […]
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN, Jan 13 – A man was arrested in this southern province for smuggling 180 pangolins, a protected scaly anteater species, Governor Veera Sriwatanatrakul said. Thirty-two year-old suspect Narong Songsukon was driving a pickup truck in the provincial seat when he was apprehended by customs officials. Read more: MCOT
BANGKOK, 13 January 2012 (NNT) – Residents in Southern Thailand are warned to brace themselves for heavy rain and gusty wind until Sunday. The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, on Thursday, issued a warning, which states that more rain is forecast for the lower part of the South, with exceptionally-heavy rain also likely in […]
HAT YAI, Jan 12 – Songkhla’s Hat Yai municipality raised the ‘yellow flag’ today warning residents of flood danger after heavy downpours raise local water levels and flood fears prompted the immediate closure of schools in five at-risk areas. Heavy rain at Hat Yai’s Patong sub-district forced residents to closely monitor the water level at […]
NARATHIWAT, Jan 11 – Two persons were injured by a roadside car bomb in Tanyongmus municipality in Rangae district on Tuesday night. Placed in car parked near a Krung Thai Bank branch, the bomb may have been intended for an armoured pickup truck carrying a security team. Comprising a 15kg gas cylinder plus a container […]
SONGKHLA, Jan 9 – Rubber growers from across the country will rally at the residence of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in the capital saying their request to solve the para rubber price drop problem has not been addressed by her government. Chayant Sangkhapaitoon, coordinator of the network of rubber growers in southern region, announced the […]
NARATHIWAT, Jan 7 – Police are hunting suspects involved in Friday’s defence volunteer post attack in Narathiwat’s Rueso district which killed two volunteers and wounded three others. Pol Col Satanfa Wamasing, superintendent of Rueso police station, on Saturday said that a group of plain clothes security personnel were assigned to trace attackers, believed to still […]
Two volunteers were killed and three others injured when insurgents ambushed their outpost in Narathiwat’s Rue Soh district early Friday morning. The insurgents escaped after snatching five assault rifles from the outpost, which is on Rusoh-Taroe road. Initial investigations revealed that the insurgents broke into the outpost by cutting through the barbed wire in the […]
