PHUKET: The 23-year-old driver of a pickup truck who survived a high-speed head-on collision into a tour bus heading from Krabi to Phuket yesterday (May 21) – killing four people in the process – will be charged with reckless driving causing death, police have confirmed. Lt Col Witthaya Sinjamreu of Phang Nga Muang Police Station […]
SATUN — An official on Wednesday said he filed charges against a Chinese tourist who fished and killed sea urchins on a southern beach. The tourist, who was not named, faces a fine of up to 50,000 baht on a charge of disturbing animals in a protected sea, Tarutao National Park chief Kanchanapan Kamhaeng told […]
SONGKHLA, May 22 (TNA) – Over 20 illegal migrants from Myanmar have been arrested in Thailand’s southern border province of Songkhla while being transported to Malaysia. A group of 14 undocumented migrants, nine males and five females, were rounded up at a rented house in Bang Klam district, waiting for transportation. Full story: tna.mcot.net TNA
A woman was killed and nine other people injured in a pileup involving four pick-up trucks, a sedan and two motorcycles on a road in Nakhon Si Thammarat on Tuesday morning, police said. Police said the accident happened at 9am on the Nakhon Si Thammarat-Pak Phanang road in front of the 17th regional office of […]
Police are questioning a 35-year-old man after his wife’s burned body was found on a roadside in Surat Thani’s Kanchanadit district on Friday night. Police have not yet laid any charges against Sarayut (surname withheld). Full story: The Nation By The Nation
YALA, May 16 (TNA) – Five people were wounded in pipe bomb attacks by suspected insurgents at several locations in the southern border province of Yala on Wednesday night. The violence occurred in four districts – Yaha, Krong Pinang, Bannang Sata and Muang districts. Full story: tna.mcot.net TNA
PHANG NGA, May 16 (TNA) – The Similan Islands in Thailand’s southern Phang Nga province will be temporarily closed to tourists for five months to allow natural restorations. The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation has declared temporary closure to tourism at national parks during the monsoon season from Thursday until mid-October. Full […]
BANGKOK, May 14 (TNA) – Police arrested a man for allegedly raping a Norwegian tourist on Pha-ngan Island on Monday, one day after the tourist filed the complaint to the police. Pol Col Kritsana Pattanacharoen, the deputy police spokesman said the suspect confessed to the crime. Full story: tna.mcot.net TNA
