PHANGNGA: Families of those killed in the 2004 tsunami are demanding the transfer of a chief cultural official following the removal of two fishing boats from an outdoor museum in memory of the tragedy in Takua Pa district. The boats, which were specially acquired for the memorial park, have historic significance because they are among […]
THAI SOUTH, 24th October 2018 (NNT) – The Meteorological Department has warned local residents in the south of the country of heavy to very heavy rainfall, flash floods, and runoffs. The Meteorological Department reports that a low-pressure trough in the lower part of the South China Sea is likely to move across the Gulf of […]
PHUKET: An American tourist was found dead in the water, believed drowned, off Koh Lanta last week, The Phuket News has learned. The news was discovered while The Phuket News was making further enquiries into the death of a different American tourist, P. S., originally from Florida, who died from his injuries after falling while […]
RATCHABURI, 22 October 2018, (NNT) – The Ratchaburi Provincial Administrative Organization has unveiled the Tung Na Baan Kong Noi Bridge in Tha Pha Sub-district of Ban Pong District in the province. The Tung Na Baan Kong Noi Bridge is an ‘L’ shaped elevated platform stretching across a 80 hectares of rice fields in the area. […]
A depression with wind speed at its epic-centre averaging 55 km/h was to make landfall in the southern province of Prachuap Khiri Khan province on Saturday and will result in isolated heavy rainfall in the southern, central and eastern regions as well as Bangkok Metropolis from today until Monday. The Meteorological Department warned people in […]
SURAT THANI: An air force officer has been arrested after 600,000 speed pills and 6kg of crystal methamphetamine worth over 80 million baht were found hidden inside his pickup truck which crashed into a tree in Tha Chana district on Thursday evening. Flt Lt Thiwa Saimoon, 50, attached to the Weapon Production Centre in Lop […]
A five-year-old boy visiting his Malaysian father died when he fell from the eighth floor of a hotel in Songkhla’s Hat Yai district on Thursday night. Police said the accident happened at 7pm at a well-known hotel in central Hat Yai. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
Thailand has named a new chief negotiator in stalled talks aimed at resolving a decades-long separatist conflict in its southern border region, while a panel representing insurgent groups has expanded, officials said Tuesday. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha confirmed the change days ahead of the first visit to Bangkok by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who […]
