Kanchanaburi has been hit by flash floods as a result of forest runoff and water flow from the nearby province of Ratchaburi. Heavy downpours caused by the influence of Gaemi, forest runoff from the Tennsaserim Hills (known as the Tanaosi Hills in Thai), and earlier heavy rain in Ratchaburi that accumulated in waterways and eventually […]
SA KAEO, Oct 9 – A 165 metre stretch of the Thai-Cambodian border in this eastern province will be sealed with barbed wire to stop illegal entry from the neighbouring country, an army officer announced today. Burapha Task Force Ranger commander Capt Apinan Songkramchai said the border from the Thai-Cambodian friendship bridge to Rong Klua […]
SA KAEO, Oct 4 – Thai police have seized five Khmer sandstone sculptures believed to be about 1,000 years old, and that they were smuggled from Cambodia into Thailand’s Sa Kaeo border province. Combined unit of police and soldiers intercepted a suspicious pickup truck and arrested its driver in Aranyaprathet district. Read more: MCOT
Chiang Rai police arrested four men for allegedly possessing more than one million Yaba pills with a street value of about Bt300 million in Mae Chan district on Sunday, deputy prime minister Chalerm Yubamrung told a press conference Monday. Presenting the four suspects – Chamnong Yeubao, 36, a former drug convict released in 2009, Sombat […]
An earthquake registering 2.9 on the Richter scale in Thong Pha Phum in Kanchanaburi on Friday night did no damage to Sri Nakarin or Vachiralongkorn dams in neighbouring Sri Sawat district, officials said yesterday. Vachiralongkorn Dam assistant director Dilok Thanosawan affirmed that the dam was unaffected by the quake, which was centred 37 kilometres away. […]
A young woman was killed and several others wounded by gunfire at a Sweet Mullet concert in Ayutthaya. The shooting occurred in front of the Viengjan entertainment center in Phra Nakorn Sri Ayutthaya. The combatants escaped after the gun battle, which involved more than 20 people. Read more: Pattayadailynews.com
PHITSANULOK, Sept 25 – Phitsanulok’s Bang Rakam district is likely to be under water for another month before receding in late October as it is a low-lying area and holds the floodwaters from upstream districts, the Phitsanulok irrigation chief said today. Bundit Inta said the Yom River in Bang Rakam district was measured at nine […]
A police doctor suspected of killing at least four people and burying their bodies on his property in Phetchaburi was arrested yesterday and taken for interrogation at the provincial police headquarters. Pol Col Supat Laohawattana, a doctor at the Police General Hospital, has been accused of killing a local couple he reportedly argued with several […]
