Police in Trang on Sunday night shot and wounded a 20-year-old man accused of attempting to kill his mother. An officer was also wounded. Following a report of a man threatening his mother with a gun, about 100 police officers and local administrative officials had surrounded a house in Wang Wiset district belonging to the […]
PATTANI: A core member of Muslim insurgents operating in the South has surrendered to the 4th Army under a government programme to bring insurgents disillusioned with the separatist movement back into the fold. Pornchai Buason of the Public Relations Centre of the Region 4 Internal Security Operations Command at the Ingkhayuthaborihan Military Camp in Pattani’s […]
SONGKHLA, 12th May 2018 (NNT) – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and Hat Yai City Municipality are jointly holding an International Balloon Festival in Hatyai featuring hot air balloons from different countries at Chira Nakhon Stadium in Hat Yai district of Songkhla province. The opening ceremony, presided over by Songkhla Governor Doldet Pattanarat, attracted […]
SONGKHLA: A Malaysian man has been arrested on charges of producing fake liquor, with 100 bottles of whiskey bearing fake major-brand labels and duty stamps seized during a raid in Hat Yai. A combined team of police, soldiers and local officials raided the two-storey building on Ratdamri Road in Hat Yai municipality on Friday evening […]
Thai officials agreed to the parole of three Deep South insurgents at the request of MARA Patani as part of talks to end a decades-long separatist rebellion, the head of a government delegation told BenarNews on Thursday. The announcement came on the same day that an army official said it would not go forward with […]
The “headless ghost” who appeared in a photo posted by a rescue official in Nakhon Si Thammarat that went viral has been identified as a shopper walking into a convenience store. The photo of a headless individual in silhouette walking from the road to the Lotus Express store in Thung Yai district of Nakhon Si […]
YALA, 10 May 2018 (NNT) – Thailand’s southernmost province of Yala is close to having its own airport. The long-awaited Betong International Airport project is expected to complete by next year. Betong District Chief, Damrong Deesakul, disclosed the construction of Betong International Airport would finish by July 2019 and the new airport should be operational […]
A 63-year-old Thai man in the eastern province of Trat has confessed to beating his date to death, saying he was frustrated that she had demanded THB500 (US$15) for sex even though he’d been unable to get it up. Saktawee Tiwalak, who collects and sells garbage for a living, was charged with manslaughter yesterday after […]
