SONGKHLA: A 28-year-old man has been arrested for falsely claiming there was a bomb planted at Hat Yai airport on Sunday, police said. Suphap Thanompol was apprehended at his house in Pak Phanang district in adjoining Nakhon Si Thammarat province. Full story: Bangkok Post BANGKOK POST ONLINE REPORTERS
KRABI — While the latest crackdown on foreigners working illegally continues, another large-scale operation is underway in the southern region: finding and capturing errant souls. Held every 30 years, the week-long festival sees Thai and foreign shamans scour the roads in Krabi and Nakhon Si provinces for the dislocated spirits of those who died in […]
A driver choking on a pill lost control of his pickup truck, which smashed a phad thai shop on popular food street in Chumphon, severely injuring the food vendor, police said. The accident happened at 6pm, a busy time on the so-called “food street” in the heart of the Lang Suan downtown district. Full story: […]
Power poles were bombed, tyres and communication towers burned and anti-government banners put up in many places in the three southernmost border provinces early on Friday. In Narathiwat’s Tak Bai district, two electricity poles were bombed and banners accusing “Siam” of colonising Pattani were hung up along Tak Bai-Narathiwat Road. Full story: Bangkok Post BANGKOK […]
SURAT THANI — A Russian tourist with memory loss is reportedly missing from her family on the island of Samui. Inna Obukhova, 39, was last seen at Centra Coconut Resort Samui on April 21, a receptionist at the hotel said Tuesday. She’s said to be suffering from amnesia and could not speak any English. Full […]
People along the shore of Pathiu district in southern Chumphon province were treated to the sight of a pair of Bryde’s whales on Tuesday. The whales – commonly referred to as Bruda whales because of the pronunciation of the Norwegian name Bryde – surfaced repeatedly for about an hour near Koh Ran Ped and Koh […]
Reports are coming in about a knife attack on a British man in Koh Chang. Pictures showed a man lying in a pool of blood and others showed apparent knife wounds to the man’s back, neck, chest and arm. He had been hospitalized in the attack that took place six weeks ago according to the […]
Twelve of 14 men who fired gunshots into a roadside bushes during a wedding ceremony in Khao Chaison district of Phatthalung province on April 23 turned themselves in today (April 30) to the district police to acknowledge the charge of firing guns in public. The suspects told the police they took turns to fire six […]
