CHIANG RAI, June 11 — Police today arrested a Thai man in Mae Sai district bordering Myanmar and charged him of illegally possessing two million methamphetamine pills and 21 kilogrammes of heroin, the largest drug seizure ever made in the district, police said. Police told a press conference that 50-year-old Manop Chaichana who is a […]
Sukhothai police arrested two men from Chiang Rai on charges of possessing one million methamphetamine pills on Wednesday night, Sukhothai police chief Pol Col Sirin Chantaravanich said. Pol Col Sirin told reporters that Snr Sgt Maj Chaithawat Suthamsiriyothin was driving his car home from Mae Lum checkpoint on the Denchai-Sri Satchanalai road when he saw […]
PHETCHABUN, June 2 – One villager drowned Thursday as heavy rains throughout the night triggered forest runoff in this lower northern Thai province, while portions of the southern province of Phangnga were under water as the rains continued. Forest runoff from heavy rain hit Phetchabun’s Wichian Buri and Nong Phai districts Thursday. Torrential waterflows swept […]
BANGKOK, 1 June 2011 (NNT) – Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva and his team are scheduled to visit northern provinces, starting on Wednesday in Phayao, for their political campaigns. Prime Minister’s Office Minister and Democrat key member Satit Wonghnongtaey stated that Mr Abhisit will this evening fly to Chiang Rai, and then travel by car […]
Wiroj Damsanit, a politician based in Angthong who was canvassing for veteran politician Somsak Prissanananthakul, was shot dead yesterday while driving home. His wife was also seriously wounded in the shootout. Police said the motive behind the killing was politics – either at the local or national level. The politician was formerly chief of an […]
A Thai tour guide surrendered himself to the police confessing that he had shot dead one Japanese tourist and wounded another, after a heated argument during the trekking in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand. On 26th April, 2011 the tour guide, Apichart Inphisak, 41, turned himself in to the police and admitted to the crime that […]
BANGKOK, April 11 – Thailand wants to close its camps housing displaced Myanmar nationals and repatriate over 100,000 persons back to homeland following their country’s first election, according to the Thai National Security Council (NSC) chief. NSC Secretary General Tawin Pleansri told reporters after an NSC meeting at Government House Monday afternoon chaired by Prime […]
The year 2011 is expected to bring about an influx of opium from the Golden Triangle into Thailand. Most is expected to come from Myanmar. The Golden Triangle is the second largest illicit opium producing area in the world following Afghanistan. Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand make up the triangle with the border between Myanmar […]
