POLICE HAVE arrested one suspect for the bombing spree that hit Thailand’s deep South on Sunday, while others are being sought after being identified. “One of the suspects is now in detention and has provided useful information,” Pattani police chief Pol Lt-General Piyawat Chalermsri said yesterday. “Moreover, we have evidence that can nail down several […]
A series of violent attacks, mostly bombings, were launched in three southern border provinces Sunday evening, the fourth day of the Ramadan fasting month. Initial reports suggested several people were injured. The coordinated attacks occurred at 7pm, immediately after the evening prayers that mark the end of the daily fasting mandated during the holy month […]
This morning, Crime Suppression Division police arrested the alleged leader of a French hacker group, wanted for demanding ransom from a British bank in exchange for keeping their 1,400 customers’ data secure. Working with the French Embassy, Thai police finally captured French national J. V., 25, at his home on Koh Samui at 5am today. […]
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: Hua Hin airport began servicing regular fights for the first time on Friday as AirAsia launched its new service between Hua Hin and Kuala Lumpur with four direct flights a week. The maiden flight landed at Hua Hin airport about 11am, an hour after departing Kuala Lumpur, with about 150 Malaysian passengers, […]
A Moldovian national was arrested at his rented home in Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Thab Sakae district on Tuesday over accusations that he had reaped benefits from a website that earned Bt123 million per year from feeding child pornographic materials to others, police told a press conference in Bangkok on Wednesday. The arrest of the 30-year-old […]
RAYONG: Three members of a family met with boos and jeers from local residents when they showed up to apologise to a traffic police officer at Maptaphut police station for assaulting him after he issued them a ticket for illegal parking. Phayom Saengwandee, 32, his wife Hathairat Somthawil, 35, and son Ittiphol Somthawil, 18, accompanied […]
A 70-year-old woman was struck and killed by a car while crossing a road in Muang Samut Samut Songkhram on Tuesday morning. Police said Juk Saributr was killed on Samut Songkram-Amphawa Road in Moo 11, Tambon Ban Prok. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
Yala: Two M79 grenades were fired at a security post in Yaha district of Yala in the early hours of Tuesday, injuring two rangers. The injured — identified as Taen Thongmak, 41, and Farit Waesu, 38 — were rushed to a nearby hospital after the attack, which was carried out by an unidentified group of […]
