Frenchman in Trat initially tests negative for monkeypox

A French citizen, suspected of being infected with monkeypox, has tested negative for the virus, but he is being kept in isolation at a hospital, in Thailand’s eastern province of Trat, pending the result of another test, which is expected today from the Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Clinical Centre. The 32-year-old Frenchman, who […]

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Streamer arrested, e-cigarettes seized in Songkhla

SONGKHLA: An online vendor was arrested with 500,000 baht worth of e-cigarettes and related items as she was preparing to live stream her products at a house in this southern province. A team of consumer protection police, armed with a search warrant, arrested Ms Arisa Phitakwathee, 30, at the house in tambon Hat Yai, Hat […]

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Bangkok-Sungai Kolok Locomotive Riddled with Bullets

NARATHIWAT, Aug 4 (TNA) – The rapid train number 171 running from Bangkok to Sungai Kolok was fired with multiple shots. Its driver and engineer were miraculously unscathed in the damaged locomotive and no one else was injured. The incident happened to the locomotive number 4506 on the far southern track between Balo and Ruso […]

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Two defence volunteers injured by bomb in Pattani

PATTANI: Two defence volunteers were injured by the explosion of an improvised bomb while they were providing security for teachers in Mai Kaen district on Tuesday morning, police said. They were part of a six-man team from tambon Mai Kaen patrolling on three motorcycles along a rural road near Ban Krachut in tambon Mai Kaen. […]

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Two Suspected Insurgents Killed in Yala

YALA, July 27 (TNA) – Two suspected insurgents were killed in Yala’s Muang district after an unsuccessful negotiation for surrender and an exchange of gunfire. The incident happened at Poh Yani village in Sateng Nok sub-district. Security officials surrounded a rented house there on Tuesday morning following a tip that two suspected insurgents stayed there […]

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Murder suspect arrested in Songkhla

SONGKHLA: The prime suspect in the murder of one brother and wounding of another in Chumphon province four months ago was arrested at an oil palm plantation in Ranot district in this southern province on Wednesday. About 7am, police raided an oil palm plantation at Moo 5 village in tambon Tha Bon and arrested Somsak […]

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