Ubon Ratchathani – A homemade bomb exploded outside an MCOT radio station in this northeastern province late Sunday night, police said Monday. No one was injured in the blast at the 107.00 MHz station in Muang district, which is about 300 metres away from the Ubon Ratchathani International Airport. Police also found a dud ping-pong […]
Two Thai bomb suspects arrive Bangkok from Cambodia A man and a woman alleged to have masterminded the bomb blast at the Bhumjaithai Party on June 22 were returned to Thailand from Cambodia on Monday morning, arriving at Suvarnabhumi airport from Phnom Penh. The two – Kobchai Boonplod, 41, and Warisaya Boonsom, 42 – were […]
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 […]
Discontent with govt in power led to move for disruption, say suspects Police yesterday arrested three men accused of masterminding the bomb attack on Bhum Jai Thai Party headquarters in northern Bangkok on Tuesday. In additiont to Khamphol Khamkhong, Dejphol Phutthajong and another unidentified man, there were four other men including a monk suspected of […]
Thailand’s government on Saturday displayed to foreign diplomats a huge cache of weapons it said had been confiscated from anti-government protesters, to quash criticism of a deadly crackdown. “Red Shirts” leaders, who mounted two months of rallies in Bangkok that saw clashes and blasts that left 86 dead and 1,900 injured movement, have criticised the […]
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — Some Bangkok residents ventured out on Thursday to shop and take stock of the damage done to their city one day after the government evicted thousands of anti-government protesters from a downtown district, triggering fires, riots and intense street battles. Some shoppers at the Emporium mall — which was not set […]
BANGKOK — Sporadic violence continued in the Thai capital on Friday as protesters challenged soldiers deployed around their encampment and fired homemade rockets at hovering helicopters. Troops and the protesters — the so-called red shirts — confronted each other Friday near the spot where the shooting of an anti-government general by a sniper on Thursday […]
