A 54-year-old man leapt to certain death on a Prachuap Khiri Khan railway track early Monday as the Bangkok-Yala train approached. Police said Somkiart Yaemklin, a resident of Tambon Thong Chai in Bang Saphan, apparently committed suicide. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
Pattani: Many students of private religious schools in the far South cannot read, speak or write Thai, a problem compounded by alleged misuse of state education subsidies, the Pattani special task force says. Illiteracy in Thai language — which the task force found has affected many Mathayom 1 (grade 7) students in some religious schools […]
Two Pakistani brothers were on Saturday taken to a gold shop in Surat Thani to re-enact their alleged theft of Bt102,000 gold necklace. The brothers were arrested in Bangkok on Friday for allegedly stealing the necklace from the Mae Mali 7 gold shop in Surat Thani’s Muang district on Wednesday evening. Full story: The Nation […]
A three-year-old boy was fatally injured when he fell from the third floor of a school building, where he and a babysitter were waiting for his elder brother on Friday evening. Police said Thanakorn Chanphum died later at Rayong provincial hospital following the accident at a school in Tambon Tha Pradu in Rayong’s Muang district. […]
TRAT: A Cambodian crew member electrocuted on board a fishing vessel off Koh Chang died as a navy-led rescue team was trying to save his life on Saturday morning. The Cambodian, identified only as Jao, 25, was on board the Wor Pornthaweesap fishing trawler when he was electrocuted about 15 nautical miles off Chang island. […]
Highway police in Thailand’s Deep South on Thursday arrested a suspected insurgent who was attempting to smuggle dozens of homemade bombs from a town along the Malaysian border to inner areas of Narathiwat province, officials said. Zanuzi Yatae was driving a bomb-laden pickup truck from Sungai Kolok town to Yi-ngor, a district in Narathiwat, before […]
A mother has cried foul after her young son was humiliated by a teacher who put a note on his shirt that he owed Bt700 for the school fee. The names of the mother, her son and the school are being withheld. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
Searchers on Tuesday recovered the body of a Ranong woman who was a passenger in a pickup truck that had been swept into a canal in a flash flood on Saturday night. The four-day search ended with the discovery of the body of Nokkaew Namsantiah, 39, submerged beneath tree branches and other debris. Full story: […]
