A Russian endurance swimmer nearly completed the “Polar Bear Challenge” of trying to swim 75 km around Koh Chang Island. The Russian swam for 26 hours and 50 km before he had to stop, due to hypothermia and his body running out of glucose. Read more: pattayadailynews.com
Ten people, among them a five-year-old boy, were killed on Tuesday in a head-on road accident in Sukhothai’s Khiri Mat district. The tragedy took place on the Sukhothai-Kampaengphet road at about 8.30am when a green pick-up loaded with workers heading out of Muang district crashed head-on with a bronze pick-up heading to Muang district. Read […]
LOP BURI – A mother forced her 13-year-old daughter to marry a 34-year-old man who paid a bride price of 2,000 baht, The Pavena Foundation for Women and Children (Pavena) reported on Friday. The girl told foundation staff that the man had come over for a drink with her parents at her home on Tuesday. […]
Thai border officials on Tuesday detained a 28-year-old Vietnamese woman who said she was attempting to flee home after being tricked into prostitution in Malaysia by her boyfriend. The distraught woman was caught attempting to cross the border into Cambodia illegally at Rong Kluea Market in Sa Kaeo’s Aranyaprathet district. Read more: The Nation
LAMPHUN, Jan 9 – Thailand’s northern province of Lamphun declared another district a disaster zone affected by cold spell as temperature kept dropping on Wednesday. Lamphun disaster response chief Chumphon Inthathep said the latest district declared a disaster zone is Ban Hong, following Li and Thung Hua Chang districts. Read more: MCOT
NONG KHAI – The body of a 63-year-old American has been found inside his home by his ex-wife and it is believed he fell down the stairs and died about 10 days earlier. Police received a report on Monday of the foreigner’s death at a village in tambon Wat That in Muang district. Read more: […]
Soldiers patrolling the border of Thailand-Burma found the corpse of a foreigner who had died in the bush about 300 meters from the border. The white-skinned man appeared to be European, between ages 25-30. His head was covered with a clear plastic bag with a wire tied around his neck. Read more: pattayadailynews.com
CHIANG RAI, Jan 6 – Four drug smugglers were killed in a clash with authorities in the northern province of Chiang Rai and 250,000 methamphetamine pills were seized during the operation. The clash came after an informant reported hill tribe drug traffickers in Myanmar planning drug smuggling into Thailand. Read more: MCOT
