NARATHIWAT, April 18 – Two police officers were wounded in a bombing near southern Thailand’s Ruso district train station in the violence-impacted province of Narathiwat. Pol Sgt Chakpong Saengsawat and Pol Cpl Ratthapong Pramoonsap were severely wounded in the bombing while inspecting a checkpoint at the Ruso train station after gunmen fired at the station’s […]
Pattani, Thailand (dpa) – A car bomb exploded Monday in Thailand’s violence-wracked southern city of Yala, killing one paramilitary soldier and injuring 23 people, officials said. The bomb, planted in a passenger car parked in the business district, exploded as a pickup carrying paramilitary rangers passed by, police said. Read more: Monsters and Critics
An assistant village headman was shot dead in an ambush in Bannang Sata district of Yala on Saturday morning, said Pol Col Suwat Wongpaibul, chief of Bannang Sata police station. Museh Daleh, 46, assistant village chief of Ban Airrong, was parking his motorcycle in front of his rubber plantation in tambon Tanoh Puteh when gunmen […]
Several ancient sites in Nakhon Si Thammarat and Surat Thani have been severely affected by the recent floods, the Fine Arts Department’s Archaeology Division reported yesterday. The damage assessment report by Fine Arts Office 14 in Nakhon Si Thammarat said that satellite photo analysis showed 52 ancient sites in Sichon district, estimated to belong to […]
Trang – A Hong Kong man has been found dead in a guesthouse room in what appeared to be a suicide, police said. The body of Taischin Sieng, 37, was found on his bed Friday by staffs of Station Apartment in Muang district Friday evening. Read more: The Nation
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is ‘smelling the breeze’ on the resort island of Samui, his first Songkran holiday with his family in more than two years in office. In a brief interview with reporters before leaving Bangkok for Surat Thani province, the prime minister appeared optimistic for the 2011 Thai traditional new year after “the […]
NARATHIWAT, April 12 – A ten-man military patrol was ambushed in Narathiwat this morning, involving a remote-controlled bomb and gunfire from an undetermined number of assailants. The presumed anti-government insurgents left the site of the incident after the bomb exploded after after apparently failing to function properly. The soldiers who were the intended target were […]
BANGKOK, April 11 — The emergency decree enforced in the three southern border provinces will be extended for another three months when it expires next week as violence has not eased in the areas, according to National Security Council (NSC) Sec-Gen Tawin Pleansri. Mr Tawin told reporters after an NSC meeting at Government House Monday […]
