BANGKOK — A national mailing service on Monday said it fired an employee caught using a company van to smuggle 13 undocumented migrants. Thanachai Mungtim, 34, was arrested on Sunday night after police stopped him at a checkpoint in Satun province and discovered the Burmese migrants hiding in the back of the vehicle. Police suspect […]
Police on Koh Phangan have launched a manhunt for a man who allegedly raped a Norwegian tourist early Sunday after she had spent time at the Half Moon party late Saturday night, a police spokesman said Sunday. Pol Col Krissana Pattanacharoen said the national police chief had instructed the Surat Thani police head office to […]
A police chief in Nakhon Si Thammarat has ordered his men to shoot to kill if necessary as the hunt for a jealous Thai man intensifies. Thanakorn Saiyut was described as armed and dangerous. If he resists arrest Pol Col Suthat Songsayom of the Chawang police said he should be shot. Full story: Thai Visa […]
PHUKET: The Mu Ko Surin National Park has closed early this year due to heavy weather creating dangerous conditions for visitors. Park Chief Puttapot Khuprasit issued a notice on Friday declaring the park closed from today (May 12) through to May 16. Chief Puttapot noted in his order that the Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) forecasts […]
NARATHIWAT: A marine task force seized 6,197 methamphetamine pills and a number of military-grade weapons in a search of a house of a major drug suspect in Bacho district of this southern border province on Sunday. The house, at Ban Iyo village in tambon Bare Nua, belongs to Muhamadpaldi Mama, a suspected drug dealer in […]
The chief technician of the Samui International Airport shot himself to death in his house on the island early on Wednesday, police said. The Borphud police on Koh Samui responded to the shooting at 5:45am in Moo 4 village in Tambon Borphut. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
A Dutch man was found drowned in a pond in Krabi’s Muang district on Tuesday morning, while his pet dog was found waiting at the water’s edge, police said. The body of S. H., 84, was spotted by local villagers, who alerted the Muang police station at 8am. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
The Immigration chief of the southern province of Ranong was transferred to an inactive post in the Immigration Bureau after Myanmar accused Ranong immigration police of slow service for 200 Myanmar tourists. The Immigration Bureau said on Monday that acting immigration police commissioner Pol Lt Gen Sompong Chingduang last Friday transferred Pol Col Weerayos Karoonyatorn, […]
