A public transport van skidded off a road and plunged into a ditch in Sukhothai yesterday killing four people and injuring 14 passengers. Of those injured, nine were in critical condition at press time. Read more: The Nation By The Nation
LAMPANG, Feb 2 – Near-drought conditions in this northern province have revealed a ‘silver living’ amid the cloud of bad news, as exposed riverbeds are now yielding alluvial gold deposits collected over time from the erosion of nearby hills. Villagers here are rushing to converge on the Wang River to pan for gold, a speculative […]
Thai authorities Wednesday extradited four Cambodian drug offenders through Sa Kaeo’s Aranyaprathet border checkpoint to serve the rest of their jail terms in Cambodia – following a request from both Cambodia and the inmates. Attending the handover at the Cambodian consulate in Aranyaprathet, Sa Kaeo prison director Kittipat Dechapahul said it was the country’s first […]
AYUTTHAYA, Jan 31 – Thailand’s antiquities authorities will speed up restoring the former capital’s historic sites, damaged by last year’s flooding in the city of Ayutthaya, and reinforce weak structures in preparation for possible repeat flooding in the future. Culture Minister Sukumol Kunplome and Somsuda Leeyawanich, director-general of the Fine Arts Department on Tuesday inspected […]
BANGKOK, Jan 31 – A human trafficking agent was arrested in the central province of Saraburi for smuggling foreign labourers from the Lao PDR to Thailand. The suspect was identified as Vitoon Tongsin. He was apprehended with 20 male and female Lao. Read more: MCOT
A large number of drug convicts incarcerated at Bangkok’s Bang Kwang maximum-security prison will soon be transferred to Khao Bin prison in Ratchaburi as part of an effort to clamp down on drug dealing inside jails, the Corrections Department said yesterday. Inmates serving time for drug convictions at other major prisons including Bangkok’s Klong Prem […]
UTTARADIT, Jan 29 – Sirikit Dam in Uttaradit province has released more water, aiming to cut retention capacity to less than 50 percent in preparation for the next rainy season. Thanarat Phumimakasikorn, Director of the Sirikit Dam, said that the Sirikit Dam was contacted by the Royal Irrigation Department’s water management committee to increase water […]
PHITSANULOK, Jan 29 – Drought in the lower northern province of Phitsanulok has extended, prompting the province to declare two districts as the disaster zones. More than 100 villages in two districts -Chat Trakan and Nakhon Thai – in mountainous areas outside the irrigation zone – have been affected, according to local disaster prevention and […]
