SARABURI: A chicken processing plant belonging to CP Foods in Kaeng Khoi district of this central province has been closed after 245 of its workers were found to have Covid-19. The factory has about 5,800 workers and 3,400 had been tested, Saraburi governor Manrat Ratanasukhon said in a letter to the Interior Ministry on Saturday. […]
Thai police rescued dozens of monkeys that were sent abroad to be eaten. The macaques were crammed into 17 containers in the back of a pick-up truck in Prachinburi, eastern Thailand, on 27 May. Officers stopped a Isuzu pickup truck believed to be stolen and with fake license plates and arrested driver Panupong Jusing, 25, […]
PHICHIT: A 19-year-old man dived into the Nan River and disappeared after his family wanted him to isolate himself at home following his return from Covid-plagued Bangkok. Udomsri Kachonklin, 40, said in tears by the river in Muang district on Tuesday that her son Anuchit Imjai returned from Bangkok last Saturday so the family and […]
PRACHIN BURI: A man was arrested on Saturday night in Kabin Buri district for shooting to death two men and injuring two others following an unsuccessful attempt to settle a personal dispute, police said. Pol Col Manoj Kanklao, the Kabin Buri police chief, said Apinan Soma, 24, was arrested by police at about 11.50pm while […]
NAN: An American man is being detained at Muang Nan police station after he admitted killing his three-months pregnant wife, police say. Jason Matthew Balzer, 32, confessed to the slaying of his 32-year-old wife, Pitchaporn or “Som O” Kidchob, said Pol Maj Gen Mongkol Sampawaphol, chief of Nan provincial police. Full story: Bangkok Post BANGKOK […]
Mae Hong Son (NNT) – Thai villagers by the Thailand-Myanmar border in Mae Hong Son have again been evacuated as fighting between the KNU and Myanmar military continues near the border. Around 70 villagers of Baan Tha Ta Fung by the Thailand-Myanmar border in Mae Sariang district of Mae Hong Son were the latest to […]
AYUTTHAYA: The Central Shrimp Market in Ayutthaya has been ordered closed until Sunday after at least 17 people were believed to have contracted Covid-19 from people working there. Health officials will conduct coronavirus tests at the market on Sunday, targeting some 300 people who work there. All shops and stalls there will be closed for […]
PHITSANULOK, April 7 (TNA) – Rescuers successfully brought an exhausted Buddhist monk out of a flooded cave after being stranded since April 2. The three-day rescue mission was successful at Phra Sai Ngam cave in Noen Maprang district of the lower northern province where Phra Manas, 46, had been trapped in the cave due to […]
