BANGKOK, Nov 30 (TNA) – The Office of the Narcotics Control Board teams up with international organizations to block the supply of pseudoephedrine, a narcotic precursor, to the Golden Triangle which has sent 11 tons of crystal methamphetamine, aka “ice”, to Australia. Yesterday, ONCB secretary-general Wichai Chaimongkhon held a press conference on international cooperation to […]
NAKHON PATHOM, Nov 29 (TNA) – An engine oil warehouse was on fire in Samphran district. Firefighters were trying to control the blaze pending supply of extinguishing agents. Damage was initially estimated at 30 million baht. The fire started at the warehouse of Prapakorn Oil Co from noon and remained unlikely to be under control […]
Soi Dog Foundation’s ongoing relief effort for dogs and cats affected by the recent flooding in Central Thailand has seen the amount of food delivered to desperate dogs and cats exceed a whopping 100 tons. Following the initial distribution in late September of 64 tons of food to flood-affected areas in the central region caused […]
Three workers were injured and trapped when part of a building under construction collapsed at Rajamangala University of Technology Rattanakosin (RMUTR) in Nakhon Pathom on Thursday morning. The new building is in the compound of the public university, which is on Phutthamonthon Sai 5 Road in tambon Salaya of Buddha Monthon district. Full story: Bangkok […]
SA KAEO (NNT) – Thai and Cambodian officials have successfully rescued 60 Thai workers forced to work at an online gambling call center in Cambodia. The workers safely arrived back in Thailand today and have been taken to a quarantine facility. The 60 Thai workers who were victims of exploitation by their employers in Cambodia […]
NAKHON SAWAN: The prime suspect in the knife-murder of a wealthy woman and wounding of her girlfriend’s son at a house in Nakhon Sawan on Tuesday surrendered to police on Thursday. Chanothai Wongsaen, 37, turned himself in at Muang police station in the morning. He was accompanied by Manas Amjui, chief of Moo 6 village […]
NAKHON SAWAN, Nov 9 (TNA) – Rescue workers hauled a sports utility vehicle up from the Chao Phraya River after it plunged into the water and its driver drowned four days ago. The SUV was pulled up with a big rope by a backhoe from a section of the six-meter-deep riverbed about 200 meters from […]
Police, local officials and rescue workers rushed to a rubber plantation, in Na Bo Kham sub-district of Thailand’s Kamphaeng Phet province this morning (Saturday), after they were alerted by villagers to the presence of about 20 migrant workers from Myanmar, including some dead and injured. The authorities found three dead, including two women and a […]
