Police have arrested four men along with 500,000 ‘yaba’ pills, with a street value of Bt150 million, in Chiang Rai’s Muang district. The men were on their way to deliver the illicit drugs to customers in Ayutthaya. Read more: The Nation
NAKHON SAWAN, Jan 25 – Farmers from five provinces have blocked Asian Highway at Nakhon Sawan to pressure the caretaker government to pay them for rice they sold under the rice pledging scheme. The farmers said that during the last five months, many rice farmers in many provinces did not receive their money so they […]
BANGKOK, 22 January 2014 (NNT) – The intense high pressure area maintaining its grasp over Thailand has caused the mercury to drop and fog to occur in many provinces in the North and Northeast. At Doi Inthanon in Chiang Mai, heavy fog has reduced road visibility at some spots to between 5 and 10 meters, […]
UTTARADIT, 21 January 2014 (NNT) – Rice growers continue to block a major highway in Uttaradit for the second day in a bid to pressure the government to pay money owed to them under the rice pledging scheme. Over 1,000 farmers camped out on the highway and parked their trucks to block the highway number […]
BANGKOK, 20 January 2014 (NNT) – Lampang Province is keen on boosting its local economy by organizing horseback weddings for couples from across the country. According to Lampang Provincial Governor Thanin Supasaen, the province’s Tourism Association is joining hands with the Carriage Association of Lampang in organizing activities to celebrate Valentine’s Day, which falls on […]
Rangers clash with drug gang in Chiang Rai, killing 4 of 8 drug smugglers, 3 escaped; 3 knapsacks filled with meth pills, heroin seized. News source: MCOT
Southern rail line linking Phetchaburi with Bangkok was damaged in a predawn bomb explosion today in which local authorities suspected was an attempt to intercept southern trains to carry anti-government protesters to join the mass protest in Bangkok. The explosion happened eight minutes after the Bangkok-Trang train left the Cha-am railway station. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
BANGKOK, Jan 18 – Saraburi highway police seized over 2 million pills of methamphetamine (meth) worth Bt600 million hidden in a pickup truck heading towards Bangkok. Deputy national police commander Pol Gen Somyot Poompanmoung and Office of Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) secretary-general Pol Gen Pongsapat Pongcharoen jointly chaired a press conference on the seizure of […]
