A 22-year-old Thai woman was caught at the Laotian border with 1,985 meth tablets in 10 plastic bags stashed in her bra. She had picked up the drugs at a Laotian casino, and would have been paid 15,000 baht for the delivery. But border officers did a body search and found the drugs. Read more: […]
BANGKOK, Dec 15 – Five police officers in the northern province of Nan have been suspended from the force, pending investigation, after they were detained for allegedly smuggling one million methamphetamine pills. According to Saturday’s press briefing chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubumrung, the five policemen were Pol Lt Col Thammanoon Nakbua, Pol Sub […]
SAMUT SAKHON, Dec 14 – Migrant workers crowded into the Thai government labour office in this seaboard province to apply for nationality verification as the government insisted today’s deadline will not be extended. Those who fail to have their nationality verified by today will be repatriated, said Labour Minister Padermchai Sasomsap. Read more: MCOT
CHIANG RAI, Dec 11 – The Thai authorities seized 40kg of crystal methamphetamine “ice” and 100,000 meth pills after a gunfight between Thai soldiers and members of a drug syndicate along the Thai-Myanmar border in the northern province of Chiang Rai Monday night. Pha Mueang Task Force deputy chief Col Chainarong Kaewkla and Chiang Rai […]
CHIANG RAI, Dec 9 – Hundreds of thousands of northern residents have been affected by the cold weather prevailing over the region while Chiang Mai’s disaster prevention office planned to ask the governor to declare disaster zones in three districts. In the northernmost province of Chiang Rai, some 260,000 residents so far have been suffering […]
The initial probe into the deaths of several cats abandoned at a temple in Angthong province has revealed that they died of cat flu disease, a provincial livestock official said on Monday. Krissana Komonchan said the remaining cats at Wat Khao Kaew in Pho Thong district, which appeared to have symptoms, were given antibiotic injections. […]
Angthong: A woman’s death from an apparent poisoning early yesterday has been linked to a dispute with a neighbor, but police say they have not yet ruled out the possibility of suicide. The woman’s two sons also fell ill, but survived. Read more: The Nation
Pol General Pongpat Pongcharoen, secretary of the Office of Narcotics Control Board, said yesterday that officials had arrested four drug dealers and seized 888,000 amphetamine tablets and three vehicles being used to deliver drugs to Chiang Rai in four separate busts. Pa Daet district police set up a checkpoint on Mae Loi-Mae Rai Road. Drug […]
