Phetchaburi: A construction worker was arrested yesterday for stabbing to death a 75-year-old woman in Cha-am district. Pol Maj Gen Uthai Kawindechathorn, commander of Phetchaburi provincial police, said the suspect, Nonthapan, 25, living in Samut Songkhram, was nabbed in Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Bang Saphan district after allegedly stabbing the woman. Full story: Bangkok Post BANGKOK […]
BANGKOK, July 7 (TNA) – The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation and the Meteorological Department have confirmed that their tsunami warning system remained effective despite damaged tsunami-warning buoys. Boontham Lertsukheekasem, director-general of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, and Chomparee Chompurat, director-general of the Meteorological Department, on Wednesday held an urgent press conference […]
SURAT THANI: Koh Phangan, an island district of this southern province, has been ranked the No 1 destination for people seeking a workation (work + vacation) in a recent survey by William Russell, a website which offers health insurance, life insurance, and income protection plans for people living and working abroad. The website’s users include […]
Two British hotel executives and a Thai company director were wanted by Thai police after a fire reportedly broke out at their hotel in Koh Kut (Kood), Trat province, causing two tourists to be injured and significant property damage. Police Lieutenant General Sompong Chingduang, Assistant Commissioner General of the Royal Thai Police, and his team […]
SONGKHLA: An 81-year-old German man died in fall from the rooftop of an apartment building in Hat Yai district on Wednesday morning. He fell to his death about 8.30am from a six-storey building in Nipat Songkroh 5 road in Hat Yai Municipality, Pol Lt Col Somkiat Kamsuwan, a duty officer, said. Full story: Bangkok Post […]
PATTANI: Three policemen were injured when a bomb hidden in a six-wheel garbage truck exploded near a road checkpoint in Panare district on Monday night. The attack occurred about 9.15pm at Chantharak police checkpoint on Highway 42 at Moo 1 village in tambon Khuan. Full story: Bangkok Post Abdullah Benjakat BANGKOK POST
The mayor of the Prachin Buri Provincial Administrative Organization (PAO), Sunthorn Vilawan, who is wanted by public prosecutors for alleged land encroachment in Khao Yai National Park, surrendered to police in Thailand’s eastern province of Rayong this morning (Tuesday). Prayut Petchkun, deputy spokesman for the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG), said that the suspect, who […]
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: Wild macaques are being tested for monkeypox during a regular neutering campaign to control the population in this lower central province, an official said. Wanchai Singto, director of the Phetchaburi-based Protected Areas Regional Office 3, said the operation started on June 1 with the target to catch about 600 macaques living on […]
