The Prachuap Khiri Khan provincial administration has declared the entire district of Pran Buri and a tambon in Hua Hin as rabies control zones. Saroj Chanlard, animal health division chief of Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Livestocks Office, said the measure was taken after 15 sampled dogs in Prachin Buri’s three areas tested positive to rabies. Full […]
Tourism service operators in Phang Nga are offering Bt100,000 for information on the whereabouts of a Chinese woman swept into the sea 10 days ago. The expectation is that the woman’s body will be located. Local officials and residents and members of the Navy based in Phang Nga base were on Monday still searching for […]
A 37-year-old man allegedly shot dead his own 79-year-old father in a heated argument after the victim allegedly assaulted his wife in Phetchaburi’s Tha Yang district on Saturday night. Following the report of a fatal shooting at 8.30pm, police rushed to the one-storey house in Tambon Tha Yang to find the body of Prasert Taeng-on […]
The Krabi airport management has notified its contractor to send a team of engineers to the airport for discussion on how to repair cracks on the runway on Monday (March 5). Mr Atthaporn Nuang-udom, the airport director, said Friday that the repair work is expected to commence at midnight and to stop in the morning […]
Nine young monks and novices in Chumphon’s Tha Sae district were arrested and defrocked after they tested positive for drug use, officials said. Acting on a tips-off, officials of a taskforce of the Chumphon governor checked Wat Kring in Moo 7 village in Tambon Sup-anan and arrested two monks for allegedly abusing methamphetamine. Full story: […]
The police in Phatthalung province are hunting for a gang of youths suspected of hurling rocks at six vehicles on Asian Highway on Friday night (March 2). Drivers of six vehicles, which included cars and large cargo trucks, lodged complaints to the police that their vehicles were hurled at with rocks and stones while they […]
There were two derailments in the South on Thursday morning – a freight train carrying gravel in Songkhla province and a passenger train in Trang province. There were no injuries, but the two lines were closed. In Songkhla, freight train No.1552 derailed at Bang Klam railway station around 9am. The locomotive and one car jumped […]
The Royal Forest Department (RFD) is pondering legal action against the proprietor of a golf course on Ko Samui in Surat Thani for alleged land encroachment after it was discovered that most of the golf course has encroached on a forest reserve. Somkid Jiewkok, chief of the RFD’s forest protection unit on Ko Samui, said […]
