Unidentified gunmen shot dead a village chief in Pattani province on Thursday, bringing to three the death toll this week in Thailand’s Deep South, the first killings in the insurgency-hit region after a lull since Aug. 22, officials said. The shooting took place the same day that an unknown number of assailants struck a school […]
TRAT, Sept 19 (TNA) – The flood situation on Koh Chang in Trat province has returned to normal after the tourist island was hit by a flash flood yesterday. Floodwater decreased but local authorities keeps monitoring rainfall. The runoff from a mountain cut off Ban Klong Plu bridge. Full story: tna.mcot.net TNA
SURAT THANI: The body of an unidentified man was found floating in the sea off Bang Po beach on Koh Samui island on Sunday afternoon. Pol Capt Issaret Samniangwan, a Koh Samui police investigator, led a team of police officers to examine the body, which was found at 1.15pm about 500 metres from the beach. […]
Another dead dugong was found floating in the sea, between Ya Island in Trang province and Ngai Island of Krabi, by a tour boat on Saturday. The find was reported to Mr. Witthaya Marknakorn, a mechanic attached to the 10th office of marine and coastal resources, by Mr. Somsak Panthumet, president of Trang professional tourist […]
RATCHABURI: A Kerry Express delivery driver was killed when his pickup truck went through an unmanned railway crossing into the path of a train in Ban Pong district on Saturday morning. The crash happened at the Ban Thaiyai crossing in tambon Tha Pha at 10.20am on Saturday, said Pol Lt Col Kriangsak Buaphor, a duty […]
SONGKHLA, Sept 9 (TNA) – Smog from neighbouring Indonesia blankets southern provinces of Thailand, causing health hazard to the residents. The city of Hat Yai in Songkhla province has been the most affected by smog from burning of farmlands and forests in Indonesia as southwest monsoon wind continues. Full story: tna.mcot.net TNA
SONGKLHA, Sept 5 (TNA) – Haze from forest fires in Sumatra, Indonesia has blanketed parts of Songkhla and visibility in Hat Yai district has dropped to 300 metres. The 16th Regional Environment Office said that the amount of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) stayed around 12-55 microgrammes per cubic metre (mcg) in the past 24 hours […]
Five people, dressed in para military uniforms and armed with assault rifles, robbed a gold shop in the downtown Na Thawee district of Thailand’s southern province of Songkhla on Saturday and fled with gold and ornaments worth about 60 million baht. According to police reports, the five robbers, three men and two women, arrived at […]
