A 19 year-old man was arrested while trying to smuggle a cell phone into Chiang Rai Prison. Nineteen year-old Kietkul Cheurmur, a native of Chiang Rai Province, was arrested while trying to throw ten cellphone headsets across the wall of Chiang Rai Central Prison. Read more: TAN Network
Ayutthaya tops the list of the 10 most endangered Heritage sites in Asia, according to the Global Heritage Fund. Asia’s architectural treasures, from a Buddhist monastery in Afghanistan to an ancient city in China, are in danger of vanishing under a tide of economic expansion, war and tourism, according to experts. Read more: Bangkok Post
A murder suspect heading to a court trial was shot dead in downtown Samut Sakhon’s Muang district yesterday morning. Police suspect he was killed in a “hush killing” to prevent him from revealing a murder mastermind, or he may have died over illegal activities or some personal conflict. Read more: The Nation
BANGKOK, 3 May 2012 (NNT) – The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) is speeding up the registration of hill tribe people in Kaeng Krachan National Park in a bid to prevent illegal logging, hunting and drug trafficking. DNP Director-General Damrong Phidet said the registration of the ethnic people was to facilitate […]
TAK, May 2 – Thai nationals are advised against crossing the Myanmar border at Tak’s Phop Phra district as their safety is uncertain after the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) threatened to retaliate unless the Thai authorities removes its leader’s name from Thailand’s list of drug traffickers, the Tak governor said on Wednesday. Governor Suriya […]
While many parts of Thailand suffer from heat and drought, authorities have launched rainmaking operations in the lower northern region to assist farmers. Kitti Thupsri, technical specialist at the Phitsanulok rainmaking operation centre, said yesterday that since March the centre – covering seven lower northern provinces – had dispatched 137 rainmaking flights using 150 tonnes […]
Six migrant workers killed, 21 wounded as pick-up truck carrying them overturns in Chachoengsao province. MCOT
Officers from the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) have arrested a couple for involvement in a jewellery scam alleged to have duped people in Nakhon Pathom and Bangkok out of Bt400 million, DSI chief Tharit Pengdit told a press conference yesterday. The arrests, made at the couple’s Nakhon Pathom home after the criminal court issued […]
