Three died following the runoff and river overflow in nine central provinces that affected 140,000 people over the past three days, authorities said on Saturday. Heavy rain during Oct 10-13, a result of a depression and discharges from the Chao Phraya Dam, triggered runoff and overflows in Lop Buri, Kamphaeng Phet, Sing Buri, Ang Thong, […]
PHUKET: A baggage handler at Phuket International Airport was arrested on Wednesday (Oct 11) over the theft of Bluetooth speaker from a passenger’s luggage after a video clip of the theft was circulated on social media. Sub Lt Wittaya Kongsomboon of the Phuket Tourist Police along with Cpl Nattapon Pinkaew of the Sakoo Police arrested […]
CHUMPHON/SURAT THANI: Twenty-one crewmembers of two Vietnamese fishing trawlers have been arrested for fishing illegally in the Thai waters off Surat Thani province. A combined team of officials from Chumphon fisheries prevention and suppression unit and a special task force rushed to the Thai waters between Koh Phangan and Koh Tao in Koh Phangan district […]
Bangkok was heavily lashed by heavy rain last night and before dawn on Saturday for hours turning many of the capital’s main roads and all Sois to canals. The heavy rains that turned Bangkok’s inner and outer areas to sea of water began before midnight and ceased before dawn. Full story: thaipbs.or.th By Thai PBS
An Army officer shot his wife to death in an Udon Thani department store after they argued about his alleged adultery, police said on Friday. Sgt-Major 1st class Pichet Chumboonchoo, 41, was found lying on the floor of a branch of Makro with chest wounds, five metres from his wife, 40-year-old Sirinporn Chumboonchoo, who had […]
SONGKHLA: Two women and a girl were killed and four others badly hurt when a pickup truck carrying pineapple residue jumped a road median strip to collide head-on with a multi-purpose vehicle in Rattaphum district on Friday morning. The fatal crash occurred at around 9am on Asia Highway in tambon Khuharat in Songkhla heading to […]
A 57-year-old housemaid, whose week-old decomposed body was found on Thursday night at a retired Army general’s two-storey house in Bangkok’s Phayathai district, was said to have been sick two weeks earlier, Metropolitan Police Bureau 1 deputy chief Pol Colonel Chayut Marayat said on Friday. The woman, whose name was withheld, had been working for […]
KHON KAEN, 13 October 2017 (NNT) – The Chi River has overflowed into Mancha Khiri district in Khon Kaen province, while officials in Ang Thong province hurry to repair damaged water barriers at commercial areas. Mancha Khiri district in Khon Kaen is currently 30 – 50 centimeters under water. The Chi River has inundated a […]
