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Entomologist using a large powered aspirator to collect mosquitoes in northern Thailand

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June 8, 2019June 8, 2019

Fumigation in Ratchaburi after 14 Singaporeans contract Chikungunya fever

Health officials have conducted fumigation operations in communities, schools and hospitals in Thailand’s central province of Ratchaburi after 14 Singaporean students and teachers on a study tour became ill from Chikungunya fever. Chikungunya fever is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which also spreads the Zika and Dengue viruses. Full story: thaipbsworld.com By Thai PBS […]

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June 5, 2019

Missing Muslim teen found dead in Songkhla graveyard

A Muslim teen was found buried in a Muslim graveyard on Wednesday after he went missing on May 26, police said. Visitors to the Ban Bo Sone graveyard in Songkhla’s Chana district on the Eid al-Fitr spotted a new grave with a foot partially revealed. Full story: The Nation By The Nation

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June 1, 2019

Yala: Teenager hurt in attempted police booth bombing

YALA: A young man was injured after a pipe bomb was thrown at a police booth in Bannang Sata district in this southern province at noon on Saturday. Police said the explosive hit a bunker in front of the police booth near Krungthai Bank’s Bannang Sata branch in tambon Bannang Sata. Full story: Bangkok Post […]

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June 1, 2019

Seven passengers injured in Songkhla bus crash

Seven passengers were injured when a Phuket-Hat Yai bus crashed into a ditch and fell on its side in Songkhla’s Rattaphum district early on Saturday, police said. The accident happened on the Hat Yai-bound Asia highway in Moo 4 village in Tambon Khuha Tai at 3am. Full story: The Nation By The Nation

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Bus stop and pond in North Eastern Thailand

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May 30, 2019

Father, 2 daughters killed by gas at waste pond in Phatthalung

PHATTHALUNG: The owner of a pig farm and his two young daughters in Tamot district were killed by toxic gas from a waste-treatment pond after he tried to rescue them on Wednesday night. The deaths of the three family members occurred at the farm in tambon Khong Yai at around 9pm, said police. Full story: […]

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May 29, 2019May 29, 2019

Emergency Decree Extended in Deep South

BANGKOK, May 29 (TNA) — The government’s emergency situation committee extends the imposition of the emergency decree on public administration in emergency situations in three southern border provinces for three months from June 20 to Sept 19. The committee headed by Deputy Prime Minister/Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon resolved to extend the decree imposition in Narathiwat, […]

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May 27, 2019

Two dead, 14 hurt in Pattani blast

PATTANI: Two people were killed and 14 others wounded in a motorcycle bomb attack near a fresh market in Nong Chik district of Pattani Monday afternoon, police said. One of the dead was a 14-year-old teenager identified as Aiyadilfitli Yoko, a resident of tambon Bo Thong. The other was Sareepa Ayohsae, 35, from Betong district […]

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May 25, 2019

Man charged with strangling neighbour, burning body

SURAT THANI: A man has been arrested on charges of strangling an 18-year-old neigbhour to death and later setting fire to her body and her motorcycle in Kanchanadit district. Police apprehended Peeraphol Nuansaneh, 27, at his house in tambon Chang Sai of Kanchanadit district on Saturday in connection with the murder of Jarinya Chuayprayak on […]

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