NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: A junior police officer was killed and two other officers injured after their pick-up overturned while in pursuit of a crime suspect on Saturday, police said. The accident occurred at about 7pm after Pol Capt Seni Chomboon (age not given), Pol L/Corporal Chalerm Yaemnaiyana, 27, and Pol Senior Sgt Maj Jaran Srikwankaew, […]
BANGKOK, Aug 23 (TNA) — The government’s committee overseeing emergency situations resolved to extend the imposition of the executive decree on public administration in emergency situations in three southern border provinces for three months until Dec 19. Gen Wallop Raksanoh, secretary-general of the National Security Council, said the committee chaired by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha […]
Thailand’s National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department has launched a program to sterilize 600 long-tailed macaque monkeys in the Khao Takiab and Khan Hin Lek Fai hills, in the seaside town of Hua Hin, in an effort to keep the ape population at a manageable level. The mass sterilization, the third round of which […]
Thailand’s Department of Marine and Coastal Resources reports that Yamil, the baby dugong found stranded in the southern province of Krabi on July 1st, died of shock and cardiac arrest at 9.35pm today (Thursday) after suffering indigestion and gastroparesis over the past few days. A Facebook post by the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources […]
At least eight civilians were injured in a spate of explosions targeting power poles and an ATM in several districts of Thailand’s southern province of Yala on Tuesday night. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the violent incidents, but security officials believe they were perpetrated by separatist insurgents to create unrest and to undermine […]
Police raided a scrap dealer in Cha-am district of Phetchaburi province Monday night after a south-bound train was derailed between Cha-am and Hun Hin around noon, which was blamed on several missing railway pins and steel plates used to attach the rail tracks to sleepers. The police found many pins and plates at the Rung […]
Travellers on rail services between Bangkok and the South were experiencing delays after a passenger train jumped off the tracks in Cha-am district of Phetchaburi province around noon on Monday. The State Railway of Thailand said train No.255 from Thon Buri to Lang Suan station in Chumphon province derailed at 12.04pm after leaving Huay Sai […]
BANGKOK, Aug 17 (TNA) – An eight-month-old sick dugong died from an infection while a team of veterinarians found pieces of plastic in her intestine. The baby dugong’s death was announced on the Facebook page of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources. Full story: tna.mcot.net TNA
