SURAT THANI: About 20,000 foreign and Thai tourists were on Koh Phangan for the Full Moon Party on Tuesday night. Provincial governor Wichawut Jinto, Samui district chief Chayapol Intarasapa and Marine Department officials were at Lom Phraya boat pier at Wat Na Phralan on Koh Samui on Tuesday to watch the departure of tourist laden […]
PHETCHABURI: A 40-year-old teacher was found dead, her weighted body dumped in a pond, in Muang district on Thursday night, about two weeks after she was reported missing in Kaeng Krachan district. A 38-year-old soldier, her close friend, has been charged with her murder. Full story: Bangkok Post Chaiwat Satyaem and Bangkok Post Online Reporters
Police are trying to find out who abandoned 59 Rohingya boat people, including five children, on an island off mainland Satun – and told them they were in Malaysia. Assistant national police chief Pol Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn has been assigned to travel to the southern province to help investigators shed light on the case. […]
Three people were killed and another seriously injured in a scuffle between two rival groups of visitors in front of a pub in Muang district of Thailand’s southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat early Friday morning. The violent incident prompted the district police to ask the district chief officer to order the immediate closure of […]
SONGKHLA: Nineteen illegal Myanmar migrants and two Thais arrested in Hat Yai district on Wednesday night were being questioned about the murder of a man whose bound and gagged body was found in a shallow grave beside a golf course earlier that day. Police investigators focused on the group, who had been hiding in a […]
SONGKHLA: A large tree, over 200 years old, collapsed on a house inside the grounds of a temple, crushing a man to death and damaging a car in Sadao district early on Sunday. The incident occurred at about 3.40am at the Thung Prap monastery following a heavy rainstorm, Somboon Wanphetcha, 58, a resident who lived […]
Thailand’s Meteorological Department has warned fishermen and sailors to be aware of rough conditions in the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand today (Sunday) and tomorrow. The Met Office said that the active south-westerly monsoon, covering the Andaman Sea, the southern region and the Gulf, has gained in strength and this will increase wave […]
A teenage girl was killed and her 19-year-old brother injured when their car was hit by a train at an unmanned railway crossing in Lang Suan district of Chumphon province on Saturday morning. The accident occurred in tambon Ban Khuan, said Pol Capt Thanakit Longsawat, an investigation officer at the Lang Suan police station, who […]
