A number of schools in the Salaya district of Thailand’s Nakhon Pathom province were abruptly closed this morning (Thursday) and all students sent home after chemicals leaked from a plastic yarn factory. People living within a few kilometres of the plant, belonging to Indorama Polyester Industries, were also advised stay home, wear their face masks […]
Six districts in Ayutthaya province have been declared flood disaster zones. More than 50 pumps have been installed to remove excess water from communities and farm land following an increase in the discharge of water through the Chao Phraya Dam in Chai Nat province, currently between 1,950m3/sec and 2,000m3/sec. Sand bags were sent to reinforce […]
Over six tonnes of frozen pork, believed to have been smuggled into Thailand, have been seized from cold storage facilities in Samut Sakhon and Chiang Mai provinces. In Samut Sakhon, police from the Consumer Protection Police Division raided a cold storage facility and found 1,050kgs of frozen pork in 50 boxes without any origin documentation. […]
Rangers from the World Heritage national park used firecrackers to push the male elephant called Lamut back to the park. Earlier it broke into houses in Na Di district while searching for food. During the operation late on Sunday night, the elephant trampled park ranger Arthit Phewngam. He was rushed to Na Di Hospital but […]
The latest tourist attraction in Thailand’s western province of Kanchanaburi, the Sky Walk, which is a transparent walkway over the famous River Kwai, was closed yesterday (Sunday), only one day after it was opened to the public, due to the shortage of special shoes, which all visitors are required to purchase and wear. On its […]
The police superintendent of Muang district police, in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai, Pol Colonel Kittipong Sukwattanapun, has been transferred to an “inactive” post in the operations centre of the provincial police headquarters as punishment for his alleged failure to control the operations of a pub in the district. Officials from the Provincial Administration […]
PHITSANULOK: A woman has been arrested for allegedly transferring a total of 15.7 million baht from a man’s bank account to her own account with a mobile phone she had stolen from him, police said at a press conference on Sunday. Pol Lt Gen Akradej Pimolsri, the Provincial Police Region 6 commissioner, identified the woman […]
325 people aged between 16 and 20 were found inside a pub in Muang district of the northern province of Chiang Rai early this morning (Saturday) when it was raided by police and officials from the Department of Juvenile Observation and Protection. Several other youths fled on their motorcycles when they saw the officials arrive […]
