Police and rangers arrested three men in Pattani on Saturday morning after they were allegedly found with a homemade bomb in a gas cylinder. Police and rangers were patrolling a rubber plantation in Ban Lan Chang village in Tambon Taping, Sai Buri district and spotted two motorcycles. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
NARATHIWAT: Two village defence volunteers were killed and two others wounded in a gun attack by a group of gunmen in tambon Chang Phuak of Chanae district on Saturday afternoon. Pol Lt Adipong Promnu, a Chanae police investigator, said that according to eyewitnesses, at about 5.20pm approximately five armed men emerged from roadside bushes and […]
At first glance, the TripAdvisor reviews for the Agama yoga school on Thailand’s Koh Phangan don’t look that much different from those for countless other yoga schools and holistic retreats scattered around the country’s tourist islands. Adjectives like “genuine,” “authentic,” and “inspiring” paint a blandly positive image for those seeking enlightenment. But keep reading and […]
SONGKHLA: Two vehicles were set on fire at a house in Thepha district of this southern province in the early hours of Wednesday. The arsonist struck around 2am in tambon Tha Muang, setting fire to the front section of both vehicles – a pickup truck and a sedan. The vehicles were parked underneath the house, […]
SURAT THANI: The driver of a speeding van, together with the vehicle’s owner, will be summonsed and punished by provincial land transport officials after an online complaint by a passenger. Manop Sutthipong, the Surat Thani land transport office chief, said on Sunday van owner Chanranong Boonjui and driver Watchayan Yongbangtrai will be ordered to the […]
Police are unsure whether a German tourist found dead on Wednesday night on Koh Phi Phi fell from rocks or suicided. The body of M. S., 50, was found on Wednesday night lying near a rock formation on the beach next to a sea gypsy graveyard in Ban Laem Dong village on popular Koh Phi […]
PATTANI: A village defence volunteer and a woman were shot dead, and another woman wounded, by gunmen at a market in Muang district on Thursday night. The shooting occurred in full view of market-goers and vendors at Ban Krue Sae community market on Pattani-Narathiwat Road in tambon Tanyong Lulor around 7pm, said Pol Col Keerati […]
An alleged drug addict suspected of involvement in a local drug gang was shot dead at his house in Nakhon Si Thammarat on Wednesday night. The Si Chon district police, called to the scene at 9pm, found Sarawut Wichaikul, 19, with gunshot wounds to the left eye and forehead in his bedroom at his mother’s […]
