Search and rescue operations resumed this morning for two young girls who went missing, and are believed to have drowned, after they were swept into deeper waters by a series of large waves in the sea off Naratat Beach in Muang district of Narathiwat province on Saturday. The two girls, 8-year old Nulfadia Sala and […]
A southern insurgent was shot dead and two defence volunteers were wounded in related clashes in Sukhirin district of Thailand’s southern border province of Narathiwat today (Sunday). According to police reports, a group of insurgents attacked a defence volunteer outpost, in Tambon Romsai of Sukhirin district just before noon, injuring two volunteers. Full story: thaipbsworld.com […]
SONGKHLA, Jan 8 (TNA) – Nineteen illegal Rohingya migrants escaped from a detention facility of the immigration police in the southern province. Evidence showed that they broke iron bars of a window on the third floor of the center, climbed down cloth and jumped to the ground at about 4am. Full story: tna.mcot.net TNA
Late Friday night or early this morning, thieves stole most of the eggs from the nest of a rare leatherback turtle, which had come ashore in Khao Lampi-Hat Thai Muang national park in Thailand’s southern coastal province of Phang-nga to lay. Thon Thamrongnawasawat, a well-known marine scientist and chair of a working committee on rare […]
RANONG, Jan 3 (TNA) – Three people have been arrested for allegedly running a brothel disguised as a karaoke bar, luring and prostituting Lao girls under the age of 18 in Rayong province. Police raided the bar in Pluak Daeng district and arrested a Thai owner and two Lao agents, Thai Immigration Bureau chief Pol […]
Four Thai tourists drowned after their overloaded kayak capsized in the Kaeng Krachan Lake in Phetchaburi province on Monday. All the male victims were members of a group of 14 young tourists from Samut Prakan province staying at a lakeside resort in Ban Phu Bon for the New Year celebrations. Full story: thaipbsworld.com By Thai […]
The final curtain will come down on Ploen Wan, one of Hua Hin’s most popular tourist attractions, at the end of this January due to financial difficulties. Tenants of the 50s-era shopping village, located on Petkasem Road and close to the Klaikangwon Palace, have been notified of the closure, scheduled for January 31st, 2020. All […]
Former cabinet minister Thawee Kraikupt allegedly tried to flee the scene of a car-motorcycle crash, in Potharam district of Ratchaburi province on Saturday, in which a 16-year old boy was injured. Rescue workers claimed that the driver of the Mercedes Benz, with Bangkok license plates, the owner of which was identified as Thawee Kraikupt, father […]
