The world’s biggest tantric yoga school is closing until the end of the year while it investigates allegations of rape and sexual abuse over a period of 15 years at its flagship location on Koh Phangan. Sixteen former staff and pupils of the Agama school on the resort island in Surat Thani alleged in interviews […]
SURAT THANI: The owner of a diving school on Koh Tao allegedly took his life after a Facebook Live session telling his friends about his family and work problems. Police were reported at 3.10pm on Thursday. When they arrived at a two-storey house in Surat Thani’s municipality, all doors and windows were closed. Two big […]
Two rangers were killed and four others injured when separatist militants ambushed their patrol unit on a Pattani road on Tuesday night. Nong Chik police station was alerted that a firefight had broken out on a road in Ban Don Na village in Tambon Bang Khao and dispatched reinforcements. Full story: The Nation By The […]
The body of a woman who on Saturday jumped from a bridge over the Tapi River in Surat Thani has been found and retrieved. The body of Supaporn Sriphum, 25, was found floating on the Gulf of Thailand about 10 kilometres from the Sri Surat Bridge at 6.20pm on Monday. Full story: The Nation By […]
NARATHIWAT: A Border Patrol Police officer shot his wife dead and then took his own life using the same gun while travelling in a car together with his stepdaughter on their way home after picking the girl up after school on Monday, police said. Pol Capt Phananphong Det-udom, deputy chief investigator at Sugnai Kolok district […]
A durian trader was shot dead at a house in Yala’s Than To district and a security guard seriously wounded by a gunman in Pattani’s Muang district on Sunday night, local authorities said. In Yala violence, Suchai Chaisith, 46, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds to his head and torso at a house in […]
A wild elephant and its baby were found dead near a reservoir in Kaeng Krachan national park in Phetchaburi province. A team of park officials and a veterinarian from the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation led by Mana Permpoon, chief of Kaeng Krachan national park, was rushed to the scene in Ban […]
SONGKHLA: A fire broke out in front of a motorcycle repair shop in Chana district of this southern province early on Sunday following a bomb explosion, damaging six motorcycles and the shop front. Police believed the fire was started by an incendiary bomb that went off in front of the motorcycle repair shop in tambon […]
