Krabi tourist police arrested the Thai owner of a tour business on Friday after his foreign clients damaged coral while snorkelling off Phi Phi Island. Pol Lt Col Atthapong Saenjaiwut said Nipon Midsae, 34, was charged with running a tour business without a licence. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
A passenger van with seven Swedish tourists on board crashed into the back of a 10-wheel truck on Phetkasem highway in Takua Thung district of Phang -nga province on Wednesday morning, injuring three persons, including a tourist. The rear-end truck crash was the second accident of its kind within 24 hours on the same highway […]
There was ice and bottles of soda all over the road in Phang Nga’s Takuapa district early Wednesday morning when trucks carrying both commodities collided outside a school. A pickup delivering ice slammed into a six-wheel truck hauling bottles of sparking water, which flipped over sent its load scattering. Full story: The Nation By The […]
A Chinese female tourist and a Thai driver died and seven others were seriously injured when a chartered passenger van rammed into the back of a 18-wheel trailer truck in Takua Thung district of Phang-nga province on Tuesday morning (March 20). The fatal incident happened at about 8.30am in front of Wat Thanun in tambon […]
SONGKHLA/BANGKOK: Police arrested a 21-year-old man from Pattani province in Hat Yai district on Monday for allegedly plotting bombings with four others in Bangkok in October 2016. Crime Suppression Division police arrested Muhammad Sakariya Damung on a Bangkok-Sungai Kolok train at Hat Yai train station about 10am. He was heading for Pattani from Bangkok, CSD […]
Ten animal-rights groups issued an urgent plea on Monday for foreigners living in Hua Hin to claim “ownership” of stray dogs being rounded up there, lest the animals be put to death. The groups posted on the Watchdog Thailand Facebook page after Livestock Department officials rounded up stray dogs in the neighbourhood of a house […]
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: Part of the tourist district of Hua Hin has been declared a red rabies zone after an elderly man was found to have died from the viral disease after being infected by a cat bite. Dr Surin Suebsueng, health chief of Prachuap Khiri Khan, said the 61-year-old man was bitten by a […]
Three Russian tourists were injured when a tour coach crashed into a roadside tree at Tambon Khao Kram in Krabi’s Muang district early on Friday (March 16). The tour bus was on its way from Phuket to Krabi international airport with 36 Russian tourists on board. Full story: thaipbs.or.th By Thai PBS
