Over 50,000 break ‘human wave’ record in Thailand

(NECN/MCOT) – The human wave world record was broken in the northeastern Thai province of Khon Kaen as the “Human Waves NO AL” event drew over 50,000 participants on Khao Niaw road. The Human Waves NO AL activity happened with 50,208 participants, way higher than 42,652 participants in the same activity last year. The activity […]

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Thai Police: We may have shot doctor hostage

Thai Police have admitted they may have fired some of the four bullets that hit a doctor taken hostage on Thursday by a double murderer allegedly high on drugs. Pol Maj Gen Prawud Tawornsiri, the spokesman for National Police Bureau, said deputy chief of metropolitan police Pol Maj Gen Amnuay Nimmanno would head a committee […]

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Assistant village chief murdered in Yala

An assistant village headman was shot dead in an ambush in Bannang Sata district of Yala on Saturday morning, said Pol Col Suwat Wongpaibul, chief of Bannang Sata police station. Museh Daleh, 46, assistant village chief of Ban Airrong, was parking his motorcycle in front of his rubber plantation in tambon Tanoh Puteh when gunmen […]

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Historic sites in Southern Thailand hit by floods

Several ancient sites in Nakhon Si Thammarat and Surat Thani have been severely affected by the recent floods, the Fine Arts Department’s Archaeology Division reported yesterday. The damage assessment report by Fine Arts Office 14 in Nakhon Si Thammarat said that satellite photo analysis showed 52 ancient sites in Sichon district, estimated to belong to […]

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Chonburi police hit the drug jackpot

Two alleged drug dealers, one female aged 42 and a Thai male of the same age, were arrested at their residence in Chonburi on Wednesday afternoon by police who allegedly uncovered 4,000 Yabba tablets, a class 1 narcotic. While the police were busily searching the house, the occupiers of the residence received a phone call […]

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