Ancient paintings of prehistoric people have been found on the walls of the Hin Perng cave in Thailand’s north-eastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima. Chaiyaporn Taptimthong, head of the Khao Phu Luang no-hunting zone, said that forest rangers found the paintings during their patrol to check animal shelters in caves in the So mountain range. Full […]
A fierce fire gutted a police building that stored official documents in Bangkok’s Sathon district early Saturday. No casualties were reported. More than 50 fire trucks and firemen were deployed to the building of the Metropolitan Police Division 5 on Sathon Road in Thung Mahamek area to control the blaze, which broke out around 4am, […]
An Australian and a Myanmar tourist have been rescued after a long-tailed boat engine was malfunctioned near an island in Krabi. The Krabi Marine Police told the Phuket Express this week they were notified of the incident by a long-tailed boat captain, Mr. Jamnean Butmueangm, 56. He told police that the long-tailed boat engine was […]
BANGKOK (NNT) – An investigation is set to be launched into a Member of Parliament (MP), who is alleged to have engaged in illegal gambling activities in his office within the parliament building. Parliament President Chuan Leekpai has announced that the MP in question will be probed to determine whether he has violated the House’s […]
NARATHIWAT: Two explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) officers were killed and another badly injured in a roadside bombing in Si Sakhon district of this southern border province, as a military convoy of the deputy commander of the 4th Army Region drove past on Friday. The blast occurred on a local road at Aikasae village Moo 6 […]
A Russian man was arrested at Phuket International Airport for entering and staying in the country without a permit. The Immigration Office at the Phuket International Airport told the Phuket Express that this week they arrested MR. ANATOLII PROSKRIANOV, 24, a Russian national. Full story: thephuketexpress.com By Goongnang Suksawat The Phuket Express
A Chinese lion “whisperer” reportedly let his pet lion cub roam freely within his residential area in Pattaya, causing fear and concern among neighbors. Nongprue Police and officials from the Office of Conservation Area 2, Department of National Parks, and Wildlife and Plant Conservation visited a house in the Central Park Hill village in Soi […]
An Australian man sustained head injuries after getting into a fistfight, which allegedly started because of a misunderstanding caused by a brief “exchange of looks.” 52-year-old Aussie Mr. Troy Robert on Saturday, March 4th, was assisted by Sawang Boriboon rescue workers after he got into a fistfight with an unidentified Thai man at the UB […]
