StockMarketWire.com – Coastal Energy has revealed a new discovery at Bua Ban North in the Gulf of Thailand. Coastal said the Bua Ban North A-03 exploration well was drilled to 5,346 feet TVD and made a discovery in the Miocene interval. The well encountered 125 feet of net pay with 28% average porosity. The A-03 […]
Train services in the southern provinces have resumed as floodwater continues to steadily recede. However, many areas remain in dire need of emergency aid. Relief agencies continue their aid efforts to help locals affected by recurring mudslides in Nakhon Si Thammarat province with Noppitam and Sichon districts worst hit by the disaster. Read more: TAN […]
PATTANI, April 7 – Two persons were killed in an exchange of gunfire between a security guard at the Pattani Veterans’ Office and presumed muslim insurgents Thursday morning as Thailand’s army chief visits the nearby restive southern province of Narathiwat in a follow-up mission on army operations in violence-plagued provinces. The dead were identified as […]
A live hand grenade was found in front of a school in Yala municipality this morning and was disarmed by the police bomb squad. The M67 grenade was inside a military-style green waist pack left on the road outside Municipal School No.4 in Muang Yala district, said Sontaya Thoobthong, deputy superintendent of Muang Yala Police […]
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, 6 April 2011 (NNT) – Nakhon Si Thammarat Airport has resumed its services in the wake of the recent flood while damages on the facilities are being evaluated. Director of Nakhon Si Thammarat Airport Nisit Sombat announced that the provincial airport had been back in operation after it was forced to close […]
A Swedish couple were killed in Thailand at the weekend after being electrocuted in the shower of their hotel on the island of Krabi. The 25-year-old man and the 23-year-old woman had decided to take a shower together on Saturday evening, the Aftonbladet newspaper reported. Friends staying in the next room rushed in to the […]
BANGKOK, April 4 – The flood emergency has eased in some of Thailand’s southern provinces, while rescue and relief operations continue to help more than two million residents affected by a flood crisis triggered by heavy rain since March 23. While many southern provinces are still experiencing scattered rain, the flood situation in three provinces […]
Surat Thani province wants three army CH-47 Chinook helicopters to deliver aid to tens of thousands of residents in four districts which are now under water. It has become the second province to ask for army Chinook helicopter help, after Nakhon Si Thammarat earlier sought the help of two of the giant helicopters for relief […]
