PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN – The body of a Canadian tourist who went missing while swimming in rough seas earlier this week was found floating off the coast of Sam Roi Yot district on January 10, ending a three-day search hampered by dangerous sea conditions. Indian Tourist in Critical Condition After Ignoring Red Flags in Phuket […]
Local fishermen discovered a mysterious body, believed to be that of a foreigner, off the coast of Sattahip district on Saturday, September 30th. Sattahip Police Arrest 52 Teenagers Holding Villa Party with Illegal Drugs and Gambling Pol Lt Col Pongphisut Mahasetthaworakul, the deputy investigator of the Sattahip Police Station, was notified of the body at […]
Star Petroleum Refining (SPRC), the company behind the oil spill in the Gulf of Thailand two weeks ago in January, revealed today (Thursday) that there has been another spill and has asked for 5,000 litres of dispersants from the Pollution Control Department. According to the company, the new leak, estimated to be 5,000 litres, is […]
An oil spill caused by a leaking marine storage buoy reached a beach in Rayong, on Thailand’s southeastern coast, last night, where soldiers and government officials are working Saturday to clean up the slick. The spill from a Star Petroleum Refining buoy, owned by Chevron (U.S.), caused a slick of about 45 square kilometers, part […]
RAYONG, Jan 27 (TNA) – The Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT) and agencies concerned confirmed that oil slicks from a leaking undersea pipe off Rayong province would not be washed ashore like what had happened in 2013. After the leakage at about 9pm on Jan 25, officials successfully contained the oil slicks within an […]
China passed a new law Friday granting its coast guard more leeway in asserting Chinese claims in the contested South China Sea and authorizing the use of force against foreign vessels. The National People’s Congress passed the Coast Guard Law of the People’s Republic of China to help the China Coast Guard defend “national sovereignty, […]
On Friday, fishermen rescued over 700 asylum seekers whose boat sank, and the Indonesian Navy reportedly saved 200 more after they were found swimming along the coast of Aceh, Indonesia. Major general Fuad Basya, spokesman for the Indonesian military, said fisherman first noticed the people and a warship was deployed to retrieve them. The rescued […]
BANGKOK, March 9 – A Royal Thai Navy spokesman on Sunday announced that debris from Malaysia Airlines MH 370 had been located 153 nautical miles off the Vietnamese coast. Navy spokesman Rear Admiral Karn Dee-ubol gave an update on the case where the MH370 had disappeared with 239 persons on board on Saturday morning on […]
