At least 12 people, including eight foreign employees of the United Nations, have been killed in northern Afghanistan, after a protest against the burning of the Quran turned violent, Afghan police said Friday. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned as “cowardly” the attack on the U.N. mission ‘s compound in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province. […]
BANGKOK, 1 April 2011 (NNT) – The Ministry of Tourism and Sports has indicated that the flooding disaster in the South has prompted 90 percent of Thai travelers to cancel their tour packages to the region, incurring a loss of 3-4 billion THB so far. After chairing a meeting to assess impacts from flashfloods in […]
Thai customs officials have seized more than two tons of African elephant tusks in the largest haul of smuggled ivory in recent history. The illegal ivory was the biggest smuggling bust by Thailand to date, worth an estimated $3.5 million and the first seized from a boat shipment. Thai customs investigators uncovered 247 African elephant […]
Two Cameroon Nationals who claimed they were Thai Football Premier League players were arrested following an undercover drug operation in the early hours of Friday Morning. Information was received by Police that the two men were allegedly selling class 1 drugs from their room in Soi Rungland Village in South Pattaya and it was decided […]
An 11 year-old boy has emerged as a hero after he rescued a very young sibling from raging torrents of floodwater two days ago. “Because water gushed down so fast and furiously, we were swept away. Then, I saw my brother trapped between two small branches of a tree,” Jakkrit Chusri recounted. “I myself fell […]
BANGKOK, 1 April 2011 (NNT) – A total of eight southern provinces have been experiencing serious flooding resulting in 13 fatalities as of 31 March 2011, according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM). DDPM Director-General Wiboon Sanguanpong reported that there have been 514 sub-districts in 81 districts under eight provinces in the […]
Bangkok – Thai authorities on Friday ordered a crackdown on a new form of underground lottery that promises winners a night in bed with a woman instead of the usual monetary reward. National Police Bureau spokesman Police Major General Prawut Thavornsiri said the so-called ‘thrilling lottery’ had become increasing popular among male factory workers, especially […]
A man has been sentenced to death and two others to life imprisonment for the murder of a Thai Rak Thai Party MP for Ratchaburi province in 2006. In this case, Anantasak Srisawat, alias Tai, Winyoo Rattanawannaee, and Anont Phanrat were charged with murder and illegal use of firearms in the shooting on May 27, […]
