BANGKOK, April 15 – Day four of the seven-day Songkran period between April 11-17 saw 66 deaths and 620 injuries in 580 road accidents on April 14, bringing the death toll to 210 with 2,288 injured overall in 2,134 road accidents, according to the Road Safety Centre. Supakorn Wongprat, the centre chair, told a news […]
BANGKOK, 26 March 2012 (NNT) – According to the Public Health Ministry, over 50,000 Thais die of cancer each year. Public Health Minister Witthaya Buranasiri has revealed that cancer is now the world’s number-one killer, claiming 7.6 million lives each year and the number is increasing. According to the Minister, cancer is also the leading […]
The Public Health Ministry of Thailand will get tough on any violation of the alcohol ban on the religious holiday of Makabucha Day this Wednesday. Violators of the ban will face a 6 month-jail term and or a fine of up to 10,000 baht. Public Health Minister, Wittaya Buranasiri, says the authorities will get tough […]
A 53-year old Lop Buri native admitted to hitting and killing his friend in the head with a hammer after a heated argument about having a woman as the prime minister had taken the turn for worse. Sawai Komsingh, 53-year old man from Lop Buri Province, turned himself in to the police on Tuesday. He […]
A total of 335 people were killed and 3,375 injured in road accidents during the “seven dangerous days’’ over the New Year, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department reported on Thursday. The department said there were altogether 3,093 road accidents throughout the country during the seven-day road toll count which began on Thursday and ended […]
BANGKOK, Jan 4 – Thailand’s death toll from road accidents nationwide during the New Year’s celebration period has risen to 314, with 3,116 injured in 2,856 road accidents in the first six days of the “seven high risk travel days” during the New Year holiday season, according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation. […]
The Road Safety Centre yesterday ordered checkpoints to look out strictly for drunk or speeding drivers returning to Bangkok from spending the year-end holidays at their home towns. The first five of the seven dangerous days of New Year festivities have killed 282 people and injured 2,783 in 2,544 traffic accidents nationwide, the centre reported. […]
BANGKOK, Jan 2 – Road accidents claimed 241 lives and injured 2,382 people in the first four days of New Year’s travel week. From Dec 29-Jan 1, there were 2,167 road accidents in total, the number falling by 306 or 12.37 per cent from the 2,473 accidents reported during the same period last year, according […]
