CHACHOENGSAO, Nov 13 (TNA) – The largest-ever haul of 11.5 tonnes of ketamine was seized at a warehouse in Bang Pakong district, said Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin. The operation was jointly conducted by the special Airport Interdiction Task Force (AITF), military officers, narcotics suppression police and the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB). Full […]
PRACHIN BURI, Nov 2 (TNA) – A highway official was killed when a flash flood ravaged forest park area east of Bangkok on Sunday. A traffic tunnel traversing Thap Lan National Park in Prachin Buri was temporarily closed due to heavy flooding triggered by hours of heavy rains from Saturday night until Sunday. Full story: […]
A 45-year-old vendor has been charged with assault after slapping the face of a high school girl who did not stand up during the playing of the national anthem at Ayutthaya railway station on Tuesday evening. A video of her assaulting the 15-year-old student went viral online, drawing heavy criticism of the woman’s action. Full […]
The Governor of Thailand’s Tak province, Pongrat Phiromrat,has ordered all 33 border checkpoints and natural crossings with Myanmar closed, for at least a week, after three relatives of an infected Myanmar couple, living in Mae Sot district, tested positive for COVID-19. The Governor said that Thai health officials quarantined the couple after they tested positive […]
TAK: A manhunt has been stepped for two Uighur escapees who slipped out of an immigration detention centre in Mae Sot district on Wednesday. Teams of border patrol police, immigration officers, local police and soldiers on Thursday searched corn fields behind the detention centre. Full story: Bangkok Post Assawin Pinitwong BANGKOK POST
At least 20 bus passengers were killed and more than 30 others injured when a freight train collided with a bus at a railway crossing in Tambon Bang Toey, in the Muang district of Thailand’s eastern province of Chachoengsao this morning (Sunday). Initial reports say the chartered bus was carrying about 60 passengers, from Samut […]
A helicopter, carrying a 6-member medical team of Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn, crash-landed near the Sirikit Dam in Thailand’s northern province of Uttradit Thursday night. Initial reports, from the Third Army Region, said that the two pilots were injured and have already been sent to a hospital in the province while others on board […]
Rescue workers accidentally stumbled on a substantial haul of methamphetamine, or “yaa baa” pills as they arrived at the scene of a road accident, on a provincial highway in Po Pratabchang district of Thailand’s northern province of Phichit, on Wednesday. They immediately alerted the police when they found one of the injured, later identified as […]
