Bangkok – The Thai military plans to drop 25 Chinese-made tanks into the Gulf of Thailand to serve as artificial reefs, media reports said Friday. The T69-2 tanks, purchased from China in 1987 at a 50-per-cent discount, will be shipped to southern Thailand next week to be dumped into the sea off Narathiwat province, 750 […]
BANGKOK, 21 July 2010 (NNT) — The Office of the Attorney General in Phang Nga province is hosting activities to promote non-violence against women, in a bid to make it a pilot province in promoting the cause. Supreme Attorney General Julasing Wasanthasing yesterday presided over the ceremony of the opening of Phang Nga Attorney General […]
A hidden bomb killed a female villager who detonated it when she stepped on a trip wire as she was heading to a plantation to tap her rubber and two ordinance offiers distached to the scene nearly met the same fate when they arrived at the scene, a local official said. The size of the […]
Internal Security Operation Command (ISOC) on Wednesday denied reports that Malay-Muslim separatist organisations unilaterally suspended organised attacks in three districts of Narathiwat province. The Patani Malay Liberation Movement had issued a statement over the weekend, claiming that the unilateral cease-fire – billed as a confidence-building measure – was implemented in Rangae, Yingor and Choh I-Rong […]
Harmful fishing practices in Thailand are pushing the rare Irrawaddy dolphin, an aquatic mammal known scientifically as Orcaella brevirostris, toward extinction here in southern Thailand, according to the Southern Marine and Coastal Resources Research Center and a team of Irrawaddy dolphin researchers and watchers. The aquatic animals live in Southeast Asia’s freshwater areas and estuaries, […]
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, 10 July 2010 (NNT) – Police in the southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat have arrested a drug dealer and seized 4,500 tablets of amphetamine and a number of other illegal items. Mr Manit Kit-ngarm, 33, a local drug dealer, was nabbed by the police on Friday after he was suspected of […]
PATTANI, Thailand — Suspected Muslim insurgents detonated roadside bombs that killed eight people, including one civilian, in two separate attacks in Thailand’s restive south, police said Friday. A bomb explosion in Yala province on Friday killed three soldiers in a pickup truck who were sent to fix a water pipe in a village in Yaha […]
A soldier and two female teachers were wounded by a bomb explosion in Sisakhon district of Narathiwat province on Monday morning, police said. The accident occurred about 9am as a team of nine soldiers from Narathiwat Task Force 37, one on a motorcycle and the others on a humvee vehicle, was escorting teachers riding their […]
