Police on Monday seized more than a million methamphetamine pills and 73kg of crystal meth, or “ice”, worth a total of 500 million baht in Chiang Rai’s Muang district. A drug suspect was killed during a shootout with police. Chiang Rai provincial police chief Songtham Alapach said that acting on a tip off a police […]
Gunmen attack temple crowd in Thailand, 2 killed A five-year-old girl and a state official were killed and 11 other people wounded when a group of gunmen fired into a crowd at an annual temple festival in Surat Thani on Monday morning. Police said at least six gunmen fired from 11mm handguns and more than […]
A member of the advisory council on development planning in the southernmost provinces demands the new government promote public participation in the ongoing attempt to address violence in the region. She also says that state officials must be closely monitored as human right violations at their hands are still reported in the area. Read more: […]
The U.N.’s highest court has ordered both Cambodia and Thailand to immediately withdraw all troops and police from a newly declared demilitarized zone around an ancient Khmer temple on their border. The International Court of Justice in The Hague also ruled Monday that both countries should allow observers from the Association of South East Asian […]
A Gambian man was arrested along with 3.1 kilogram of crystal meth at the Suvarnabhumi Airport yesterday morning, Narcotics Suppression Bureau Commander Pol Lt Gen Atithep Panchamanon told a press conference. Following the tip-off that some Gambian national was hired to smuggle drugs into Thailand via the airport, police stake out until the spotted the […]
BANGKOK, 18 July 2011 (NNT) – Majority of Bangkok city dwellers remain stressful since the situation after the 3 July general election is still unclear, plus persistent of economic stress, according to a recent survey by Suan Dusit Poll of Suan Dusit Rajabhat University. The survey was conducted with 1,292 respondents residing in Bangkok and […]
Thai Public Health Ministry is warning of a dengue fever outbreak after finding that more than 20,000 people have been hit with the disease over the six months and 13 of them have died. Elderly people and children aged under one year old are most at risk of dengue fever infection, the ministry’s permanent secretary […]
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday that the recent actions by Turkey to arrest and detain journalists in the country, as well as planned Internet restrictions, are “an area of concern” for her. Clinton is on a two-day visit to Turkey and made some of her comments during a news conference […]
