AYUTTHAYA, Jan 12 – Twelve people sustained minor injuries from smoke inhalation following a massive fire at the APCB electronic parts factory in the Bang Pa-in industrial estate here. The blaze took place at around noon Tuesday, on the fourth floor of a building storing chemicals and cleaning liquid and spread to nearby floors. The […]
Police have arrested an Akha man for having allegedly supplying over 100 boys, most street children, to a 61-year-old American to have sex with. The American, Thomas Gary, was arrested with cooperation from the US Federation Bureau of Investigation on in September. Read more: The Nation
Ten members of a northern drug-trafficking gang were arrested today in Samut Sakhon and Chiang Mai provinces with authorities seizing 12kg of crystal methamphetamine. Office of the Narcotics Control Board secretary-general Permpong Chaowalit announced the arrest of the 10 suspects at a press conference at the ONCB headquarters Thursday. Read more: Bangkok Post
A junior monk has accused the abbot of a temple in Uthai Thani of allegedly sexually molesting a young man inside his monastery room. The monk, who declined to be named, handed a video clip featuring alleged misconduct by his abbot to Songkran Atchariyasap, chairman of the Facebook network against acts that harm the kingdom, […]
KAMPHAENG PHET – A police truck hit and killed a 45-year-old woman crossing the street in Kamphaeng Phet province on New Year’s Day, police say. The driver, Pol.Col. Chayinthorn Sukonthorn, said he was rushing back from the residence of a senior commander to his police station in neighbouring Phichit province to deal with a drug-related […]
A big fire raged through a building of an electronic parts of Shin -Ei Precision (Thailand) Co Ltd in Ayutthaya’s Rojana industrial estate at 10:30 am Thursday. About 20 fire engines took about an hour to control the blaze. Read more: The Nation By The Nation
PHICHIT, Jan 2 – Combined government forces early Friday shot and wounded a drug trafficker, arrested another and seized about 40,000 methamphetamine pills in the northern province of Phichit, police said. The incident occurred at about 5am today when soldiers from the Third Army Region and police tried to stop a pickup van with two […]
Police Tuesday intercepted a Toyota Innova car used to try to smuggle 28 Myanmar immigrants from Tak to Bangkok. Police spotted the car trying to avoid a checkpoint in Mae Sot district so they chased after it and found that it was carrying 13 Myanmar men, 13 Myanmar women and two children. Read more: The […]
