Three Chinese tourists were plucked from the sea off Koh Chang Island by rescue workers after they were caught by rip current while swimming in the sea off Sai Khao beach on Wednesday afternoon in defiance of a no-swimming sign. One of the tourists, whose identity is not immediately known was reported to be in […]
National police chief Chakthip Chaijinda on Thursday ordered local police to speed up their investigation into a series of explosions at rubber plantations in Yala to bring those responsible to justice. Pol Gen Chakthip issued the order after a rubber tapper was seriously wounded by the latest explosive device, a land mine, on while working […]
Another villager, the 5th in eight days, was wounded in a bomb explosion while tapping rubber in a plantation in Muang district of Yala province early Thursday. Police said the incident occurred at about 3am when Jarin Chanluek, 47, of Ban Thung Ya Mu in Tambon Yupo of Muang district went to the plantation near […]
A Trang murder suspect was arrested in Satun on Wednesday, just 24 hours before the statute of limitations on a 20-year-old murder case was due to expire. Kredis Sombatthong, 41, a resident of Trang’s Yan Ta Khao district, was arrested by Crime Suppression Division police in Satun’s Khun Ka Long district on Thursday under a […]
Two Ugandan men and a Thai woman have been arrested on Koh Samui for alleged collusion in an online romance scam, duping Thai women into transferring money into their bank accounts. The trio – Rogers Kyeyune, 31, and Emmanuel Kasoma, 37, from Uganda, and Wilaiwan Phetthong, 24 -are accused specifically of swindling money from four […]
PATTANI: An elderly villager was killed in a drive-by shooting in Khok Pho district on Wednesday morning. Ma-ae Sale, employed under the state-run urgent employment project, was gunned down while riding a motorcycle from his home to his workplace at Ban Khlong Hin school, police said. Full story: Bangkok Post ABDULLOH BENJAKAT BANGKOK POST
Soldiers, police and municipal officials were scouring a Koh Samui beach on Wednesday morning after a Facebook user posted a video of brackish wastewater running into the sea. They found no trace on Laem Son Beach of the sewage, which the Facebook user described as foul-smelling and repelling tourists. Full story: The Nation By The […]
SONGKHLA: An unhappy man whose estranged wife wants a divorce made preparations to hang himself and his 3-year-old daughter at his home in Hat Yai on Tuesday, and in a live Facebook broadcast set a deadline for the woman to return home. Police and rescue workers rushed to the house on Soi Plakwa in the […]
