The Department of National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation has agreed to extend the closure of Ao Maya, or Maya Bay, a popular tourist attraction in Thailand’s southern province of Krabi, for another six months after a 10-month initial closure to allow nature to regenerate the ecosystem. Worapot Lomlim, chief of the Hat Nopparatthara-Phi-Phi Islands […]
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: Six men were hurt late Monday night as two rival gangs brawled outside a public hospital in Bang Saphan Noi district where a man was being treated after an earlier fight between the gangs. Bang Saphan Noi Hospital erupted in chaos when the brawl started in front of the emergency room. The […]
A 67 year old Belgian man has been found murdered in bed in Nern Phra sub-district of Muang district, Rayong. Named only as “Gay” he was found face down on the bed in his bedroom on Sunday. When turned over forensics found his left eye had been attacked and was almost detached from the socket. […]
NARATHIWAT: Five female teachers returning from an Islamic study tour in Malaysia were killed and eight others, including the driver, wre injured when their van hit a roadside tree in Bacho district of Narathiwat early Wednesday. The crash occurred on Phetkasem Road in tambon Luborsawor, said Pol Capt Paiboon Kuedam, duty investigation chief at Bacho […]
TRANG: A monk and a nun have been arrested and about 8,000 methamphetamine pills and an assault rile and 50 rounds of ammunition seized during police operations in three districts. Than “Phra Bomb” Jongthong, 38, was arrested at his living quarters at Wat Yothong in tambon Nayong, Yong district, after a drug suppression team, led […]
A 12-year-old Israeli girl is missing a tourist boat, in which she was travelling to Phuket from Thailand’s southern province of Krabi, caught fire and eventually sank late Monday afternoon. About 100 other foreign tourists were safely rescued. The boat, named Ao Nang Princess 5, was carrying the passengers from Nopparat Thara and Rai Lay […]
With more than 1,000 long-tailed macaques now living at Kho Takiab temple in Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Hua Hin district and insufficient supplies to feed them all, officials are all set to launch a sterilisation programme to keep the numbers down. Hua Hin Municipality’s Jirawat Prammanee said help had been sought from the National Parks, Wildlife […]
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: Thirty-nine of the 240 young men taking part in military conscription screening in Tha Sala district of this southern province have tested positive for drug use, with four men caught with containers of clean urine in their underwear. Supongsawinai Chuyok, chief of Tha Sala district, said the tests were conducted on 240 […]
