An alleged robber was shot dead and one of his accompliceswas injured when four men tried to rob a gold shop in Mueang district of Thailand’s western province of Tak this afternoon (Thursday). The four men arrived at the shop, opposite the Tak Pittayakhom School, on two motorcycles. One of them fired ashot into the […]
Livestock and customs officials seized about 1.5 tonnes of pig carcasses yesterday (Sunday), which had been smuggled into Thailand’s eastern border province of Sa Kaeo from Cambodia. The driver of the pickup truck containing the pork was arrested after a brief chase. He allegedly admitted that the carcasses were being delivered to a customer. Full […]
A site worker was killed and another injured when a partially completed building, in the compound of the Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) in the northern province of Phitsanulok, collapsed in this morning (Friday). The Phitsanulok rescue radio centre said that emergency services rushed to the construction site in Samo Khae sub-district. Full story: thaipbsworld.com By […]
PHETCHABUN, Nov 29 (TNA) – Many monks including all at a temple were defrocked as officials found the trace of drug abuse in their urine. An abbot escaped from the anti-narcotic operation. On Nov 25, police from the Bung Sam Phan station, administrative officials, village headmen and medical workers conducted drug tests at Buddhist temples […]
Three migrant workers from Myanmar and a Thai bus driver were killed and about 40 others injured when their bus crashed through a road barrier into a roadside ditch and overturned in the Mueang district of Tak Province on Tuesday night. Pol Col Likhitpong Srinarang, superintendent of Mae Thor police, said that the bus driver […]
CHIANG RAI, Nov 28 (TNA) – The Pha Muang Task Force already received the three Thai women who had been lured to forced prostitution in Myanmar. After the Pavena Foundation had asked the task force to coordinate their rescue with Myanmar authorities, Col Nathee Thimsen, commander of an ad hoc unit under the 2nd Cavalry Regiment […]
BANGKOK (NNT) – Meals were served to macaque monkeys on Sunday morning (27 Nov) at the annual Monkey Feast Festival, also known as the Monkey Banquet or Monkey Buffet Festival, in Lopburi city in Lopburi province. Monkey statues holding trays were lined up in rows outside the Phra Prang Sam Yot temple while volunteers prepared […]
A Thai couple was apprehended for allegedly having more than 3.7 million methamphetamine pills in their possession in a warehouse in Ayutthaya province. A man reportedly coming to buy drugs from them was also arrested. The arrested couple was identified by Thai narcotics suppression police as Mr. Wittaya Suksathien, 24, and Ms. Waranya Panthong, 21. […]
