Three suspected drug smugglers were killed and 160,000 speed pills, 5.6kg of heroin and some raw opium were seized following an exchange of gunfire along the Thai-Myanmar border in Chiang Rai on Tuesday night. Party drugs disguised as drinks and coffee packs for sale on TikTok: ONCB The clash began after a military patrol spotted […]
A Myanmar woman and her 8-year-old son were found beaten to death in a rented room in Muang district of northern Lamphun province and police view her missing husband as the prime suspect. Lamphun man arrested for growing marijuana for own use The dead woman, identified only as Thor, and her son were killed in […]
Red-coded hazardous smog levels again recorded in 13 areas in the upper North, with the worst pollution in Pai district of Mae Hong Son, the Pollution Control Department reported on Monday. Chiang Mai governor asks employers to allow staff to work from home The department reported the unsafe levels of particulate matter 2.5 micrometres and […]
Thai police seized one million methamphetamine pills and 499kg of crystal methamphetamine (Ice) from a six-wheel truck, abandoned by its driver on a roadside in Kong Krailat district of Thailand’s northern province of Sukhothai, on Friday night. Thai Army reacts to influx of drugs across North border Pol Maj-Gen Teeradej Thumsutee, commander of the investigative […]
Forest fires have destroyed about 80 hectares of forest in the Doi Tung development project, in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai, and worsened the air pollution in Mae Sai district, with the level of PM2.5 dust rising to 443 microns. Massive Fire in Nakhon Nayok Causes Chaos The fires started at about 3pm in […]
Thailand’s Acting Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered law enforcement officers to tighten up measures against forest arsonists following a massive blaze that is engulfing several mountains in the Nakhon Nayok province in Northeast Thailand. Visiting Nakhon Nayok: Waterfalls and Golf Courses Khao Chaplu mountain in Nakhon Nayok as well as several adjacent mountains are […]
More than 3,400 people in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai, including 372 in Mae Sai district alone, were treated for respiratory conditions between March 19th and 26th, as they struggle to cope with choking air pollution caused by forest and farm fires. Meanwhile, Chiang Rai governor Puttipong Sirimat said yesterday (Monday) that he will […]
CHIANG MAI: The army has tightened security along the northern border following reports of greater quantities and varieties of illegal drugs flowing into the country from Myanmar, which is also said to harbouring a rise in opium-growing facilities. Maj Gen Jarad Panyadee, deputy commissioner of the Northern Border Narcotic Control Centre (NBNCC), said the force […]
