Asia’s leading break manufacturer, Asia Compact recently established a ‘Green Pattaya by Green Compact’ project. The project will encourage two-row seat buses (baht buses) to be fitted with non-polluting breaks. Business Development Manager of Asia Compact Pattana Issarapitakgul said, “We decided to establish this project in hopes to raise awareness about reducing air pollution by […]
PHUKET police are continuing their hunt for the driver of a tour bus that flipped and crashed on Patong Hill earlier this month, killing one passenger and injuring scores of others. Police Superintendent Colonel Arayapan Pukbuakao, of Patong’s Kathu station, said an arrest warrant had been issued for the driver, named as Yongyot ”Nuan” Jantip, […]
Four women were killed and 22 other passengers injured when an inter-provincial bus overturned in northern Phayao province on Monday morning. The Chiang Rai-bound bus carrying 30 passengers overturned on Phahon Yothin Road in front of Phayao University in Muang district. Four women passengers, all natives of Chiang Rai, died on the spot. Twenty-two passengers […]
PHUKET police are pursuing the road-weary driver of a tour bus that crashed on Patong Hill today, killing one man and injuring 41 other passengers, three of them seriously. Twenty-nine-year-old Nuan was the only driver on a 1300 kilometre four-day, five night round trip from Phuket to the north of Thailand – and he overturned […]
Early this morning, a school bus overturned in Nakhon Ratchasima due to the driver falling asleep behind the wheel. The accident happened between kilometers 15 and 16 on the Seekiew-Chokchai bypass road in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Sungnern district. There were more than 50 students and teachers injured, five of whom in serious condition. TAN Network
A coach travelling to Udon Thani Province for a Royal Cremation Ceremony was involved in a road accident on Friday Night which killed 3 and injured 45 people. The accident occurred on Highway 331 in Huoy Yai on the outskirts of Pattaya and occurred when the coach hit a stationary 18-wheel truck which had stopped […]
Next 10,000 Workers Ready to Return Today The first group of 50 Thai workers evacuated from riot-plagued Libya have returned home, expressing relief to have survived the “terrifying” experience. The evacuees arrived at Suvarnabhumi airport yesterday on board a Qatar Airways flight out of neighbouring Tunisia. Of the group, 33 are employees of SNC Lavalin […]
Fourteen teachers were killed and 23 others injured when their bus plunged into a roadside ravine Monday, police said. The accident happened in Nan’s Song Kwae district at about 7:30 am. The 32 teachers were traveling from Ban Dai School in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district on an education trip to Thung Chang district. They […]
