CHIANG RAI – Police have detained a Chinese tourist in northern Thailand who allegedly crashed his car into two motorcycles and killed a 41-year-old woman. The accident took place on Terng – Chiang Rai road in Doi Lan district of Chiang Rai at around 12.30 pm today. Read more: khaosodenglish.com
Hailstorm lashed Saiyok district of Kanchanaburi province today but there was no report of damages to property. But local officials and soldiers rushed to the affected areas on Highway 323 from Kanchanaburi to Thong Phaphum reported millions of thumbnail size hailstones falling from the sky and turning the areas to white. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
BANGKOK, 17 March 2015 (NNT) – Smog in the northern province of Mae Hong Son has caused disruptions to air travel for five days. Air pollution there is still considered as harmful to health. Mae Hong Son Governor Suraphon Phanat-amphon said the current PM10 level in the province was 280 micrograms/cubic meter, decreasing from yesterday […]
Ayutthaya authorities and Tourism Authority of Thailand join hands to host a Thai boxing next week in which more than 800 Thai boxers from 60 countries will participate. The festival that will be held between March 15 and 20 is dubbed “World Wai Kru Muay Thai Festival.” Read more: The Nation By The Nation
BANGKOK — A suspected drug kingpin who had threatened to massacre police officers in Facebook posts was arrested near the Thai-Burmese border today, police say. Adisak Srisa-ard, aka Benz Thasai, was arrested after police and military officers found him in van bound for Myanmar in Kanchanaburi province at around 8:20 am this morning, police told […]
An Austrian man was killed instantly in a horror crash early this morning on Highway 1 near Nakhon Chum in Kamphaeng Phet province, 360Km north of Bangkok. The man was identified from his international drivers license as 51-year-old Mr Christoph Hlebayna, general manager of the Chiang Mai Grandview Hotel & Convention Center. Read more: stickboybangkok.com
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) today began investigating the murder of a Japanese tourist while visiting a historic park in Sukhothai on November 24, 2007. The opening of the case followed request by the Ministry of Tourism and Sports to the DSI to handle the investigation murder and the DSI has accepted it as […]
NAN — More than 1,000 Buddhists gathered by a temple in northern Thailand yesterday to protest a plan to construct a mosque in Nan province. The rally came in response to news that a group of local Muslims had purchased a plot of land in Nam Kaen subdistrict, where they said they intended to build […]
