An under-construction bridge at Trat Provincial Administration Organisation (PAO) collapsed on Thursday evening (March 15), injuring 15 Thai and Cambodian workers. The bridge links the One Tambon One Product (OTOP) exhibition centre and a convention hall which are in the compound of the Trat PAO in Muang district. Full story: thaipbs.or.th By Thai PBS
Samui residents are calling on police to locate and arrest a naked foreign tourist who was photographed hugging Hin Ta rock, which is regarded by local residents as a symbol of Koh Samui in Surat Thani. The photos show the unidentified woman walking around and hugging the rock, which resembles a phallus, to pose for […]
TRAT: The body of a French national who disappeared in Koh Kut waters last week was discovered offshore Sunday. He was identified as A. D. P. G., 51. The body was found Sunday morning by the crew of a local fishing boat, about 7.5 nautical miles off the island. Marine police and rescue workers took […]
Local authorities and operator of a garbage barge were salvaging a half sunken garbage barge yesterday when it went out of control after developing engine trouble, and hit undersea rocks. The 15-metre long and 4-metre wide garbage barge, Chachandee, sank off Phi Phi Island in Tambon Ao Nang, Krabi province. Full story: thaipbs.or.th By Thai […]
A grenade modified to function as a time bomb was found in front of a house in southern Yala province on Monday morning. Bomb disposal experts summoned to the house in Tambon Bannang Sareng in Muang Yala had the device deactivated by 8.45am. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
An assistant nurse at a private hospital in Songkhla’s Hat Yai district was arrested by police on charge of illicit drug trafficking after she sold 100 grammes of crystal methamphetamine, or Ice, to an undercover agent at a car park of the hospital. A plainclothes policeman posing as a drug buyer approached the assistant nurse, […]
A Thai lady boy has been charged with attempted murder after he stabbed a Norwegian tourist in Ao Nang, Krabi in the early hours of Friday morning. The Norwegian – stabbed in the rib cage – is recovering in Krabi Hospital while Samart, 31, says he used a knife in self defense. Full story: Thaivisa […]
Narcotic police seized 447 kilogrammes of crytal methamphetamine, or Ice, worth more than 200 million baht in street prices from a pickup truck in Hat Yai district on Friday (March 9). Meanwhile in Chiang Dao district of Chiang Mai, troops from the Pha Muang task force of the Third Army Region, seized 3 million methamphetamine […]
