The police chief says he will fire the policemen involved in the fatal torture of a drug suspect in Nakhon Sawan after a clip showing a man being suffocated with a plastic bag went viral on Tuesday, a day after a provincial police boss vowed to probe the accusation. The 2.44-minute clip shows a man […]
KANCHANABURI, Aug 20 (TNA) – The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation confirmed a luxury floating hotel was removed from the Khwae Noi River in the Sai Yok National Park. Niphon Chamnongsirisak, director of the department’s Protected Area Regional Office 3 (Banpong), said that five-star Saiyok Floatel with 29 rooms, restaurants, a reception […]
Technology Crime Suppression Division police have arrested a man for taking orders on Facebook for “alternative vaccines” against Covid-19, failing to deliver them and allegedly pocketing about 200,000 baht. Pol Lt Gen Kornchai Khlaiklueng, the TCSD commander, said Thapakorn Kaewsri, 20, was detained on Tuesday in a hotel room in tambon Ko Somboon of Si […]
KANCHANABURI (NNT) – The Governor of Kanchanaburi has ordered the closure of all five border districts indefinitely, in response to a severe COVID-19 outbreak in Myanmar, for fear of illegal border crossings from Myanmar into Thailand. Kanchanaburi Governor Jeerakiat Phumsawat has ordered the Kanchanaburi Communicable Disease Committee to close five districts in Kanchanaburi to prevent […]
A frozen poultry processing factory in Thailand’s northern province of Phetchabun has been closed down after more than 1,600, of the 7,200, were found to be infected with COVID-19 during active screening yesterday (Friday). Phetchabun Governor Krit Kongmuang said today that active screening is still under way today and it is expected that up to […]
Two people were killed and four others injured in a road accident in Thailand’s central province of Suphan Buri yesterday (Wednesday), as they were heading for home to the northern province of Phayao for treatment for COVID-19 infections. The pickup truck, in which the six relatives were travelling from Bangkok, smashed into a roadside tree […]
KANCHANABURI: The border district of Sangkhla Buri has been locked down for 14 days and people ordered to stay home from 10pm to 4am, to curb an outbreak of Covid-19. Governor Jirakiat Phumsawat, as chairman of the provincial communicable disease control committee, signed the order, effective on Friday. Full story: Bangkok Post Piyarat Chongcharoen BANGKOK […]
TAK, June 29 (TNA) – The number of COVID-19 cases from a sewing factory in Mae Sot district has exceeded 600 and overcrowded two local field hospitals. The cluster at a sewing factory in Mae Tao Klang village was growing as health workers were conducting mass testing on Myanmar workers at local factories in Mae […]
