A road crash left two dead and five injured after a car failed to stop at a Police Checkpoint in North Pattaya. In the early hours of Saturday Morning a White Isuzu Pick-up failed to stop at the checkpoint and left the area at a high rate of speed. Police gave chase and caught up […]
Jan 15, 2011 (The Nation – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — BANGKOK (THE NATION-THAILAND/ANN) — Thai Airways International’s board of directors yesterday endorsed a revised sixyear investment plan (2011-2017), which includes the acquisition of 37 new aircraft to replace retired planes and accommodate business expansion. THAI last year built up a solid foundation that […]
Bangkok – Thai officials are hoping to trigger a tourist bonanza by promoting a gold panning festival in April along the Wang River in the northern province of Lampang, a news report said Saturday. Residents of Wang Nua district in northern Lampang have been supplementing their income for generations by panning for gold along the […]
SA KAEO, Jan 15 — A total of 199 Cambodians charged with entering Thailand illegally and working in the Thai capital of Bangkok were deported Saturday, Thai immigration officials said. The deportees including 120 men, 61 women, 10 boys and 8 girls travelled by cars past a Thai border village in Aranyaprathet district opposite the […]
Khon Kaen – An air-conditioned bus heading from Nong Bua Lampu to Bangkok overturned here late Friday night, killing five passengers and injuring 30 others, police said. The accident occurred at 11 pm on the Kudchim-Phuwiang Road in Nong Rua district. Four of the five killed passengers were identified as Amporn Kaewprom, 27, Kesorn Kaewprom, […]
Phatthalung – A cargo train crashed into a passenger train parked at the provincial station here Friday night, hurling a carriage to hit another passenger train, train officials said. The accident occurred at the Phatthalung station at 10:30 pm. The engine of the cargo train broke down, causing the train to block the railway. When […]
A teacher was killed in a drive-by shooting Pattani’s Muang district on Saturday morning, police said. The victim, identified as Manote Chadarat, 38, a teacher at Decha Pattayanukul in Muang District. He was attacked at the Nawang intersection in tambon Jabang Tiko of Muang Pattani municipality, while riding a motorcycle to his school. Manote was […]
The Bangkok Metropolitan Police will issue a directive to prohibit children under 18 years old from leaving home after 10 pm without justified reasons, the bureau spokesman said Thursday. Metropolitan Police spokesman Pol Maj Gen Piya Uthayo said the ban was aimed preventing youths from hanging out at night and committing crime or becoming crime […]
