Police have arrested five suspects accused of launching several M79 and bomb attacks in Bangkok and elsewhere during the red-shirt protests in May. The five suspects are identified as Wallop Phitheephrome, Somkhid Makwong, Wanchai Sangkhao, Anant Meerod and Chatchai Phokhanuphrab. Police said Wallop admitted to being behind 12 M79 attacks including four in Chiang Mai […]
BANGKOK, 22 November 2010 (NNT) – The Bangkok Metropolitan Council (BMC) has set up a committee to study the laws governing land utilization and construction to cope with flooding in the next 10 years. The BMC and Department of Public Works and Town & Country Planning jointly announced that a committee would be set up […]
One worker was killed and three others injured after the explosion of an incubator Saturday at a rubber processing plant in Bangkok’s Bang Bon district. Weerawuth Wongcharee was killed instantly by the explosion, while the wounded workers suffered burns from boiling rubber milk to their faces and bodies. The explosion caused a fire at the […]
Update: Police have found more than a thousand fetus corpses hidden in the morgue of a Bangkok temple. The latest discovery drove the total number of remains to more than 2,000. A police forensic team along with volunteers found 1,654 more fetus corpses in two coffin slots inside Wat Phai Ngern’s morgue, bringing the total […]
BANGKOK, Nov 18 – The anti-government Red Shirt movement, the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) on Thursday pledged that its demonstration in the Thai capital on Friday to mark the six-month anniversary of the forced ending of the group’s protest at Ratchaprasong intersection will be peaceful and said it will hold continuing activities […]
There are eight cases of deaths during the anti-government protests from March to May involving the red shirts and the “men in black”, while the cause of deaths in four other cases is unknown but they could have resulted from a crackdown by security forces, the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) said yesterday. The deaths […]
An undertaker has been arrested for allegedly assisting five abortion clinics to dispose some 200 aborted fetuses. Suthep Cha-bangbon, 46, an undertaker of Phai Ngern Temple on Soi Trokchan 20 in Bang Kholaem district, has been arrested, a police source said. Initially, Suthep claimed that he was the one who spotted the aborted fetuses and […]
BANGKOK, Nov 16 – Four alleged drug smugglers, Indian nationals, have been arrested in possession of 8.5kg of crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as ‘ice,’ valued at Bt32 million (over US$1 million) in Bangkok’s Pratunam shopping area, Police Chief Wichean Potephosree said on Tuesday. The detainees were identified as Saravanam Karuppiah, Abbas Seyed Buhari, Mohamed Mustafa […]
