Bomb thrown at bus in Bangkok A bomb exploded in Bangkok’s Min Buri district Monday afternoon, killing one person and injuring five others. The explosion occurred at 5 pm. Those killed and injured were riding NO 27 bus. The injured were rushed to the Navamin Hospital. Read more: The Nation By The Nation
Chiang Rai – Four North Korean women surrendered to police in this northern province late Sunday and asked for help to be resettled in a third country. The four women, who could not speak Thai and English, carried their bags to meet police at the Chiang Rai Mung police station at 15 minutes after midnight. […]
BANGKOK, October 3 (RIA Novosti) A bus with Russian tourists overturned near the Thai resort city of Pattaya, the Russian embassy in Bangkok said on Sunday. “At about 6:00 a.m. Moscow time [2:00 GMT] a bus which set off from Pattaya on a two-day trip to the Kanchanaburi province flipped over some 20 km from […]
Phuket’s local public transportation, “Po Tongs” is awarded “the Oustanding Local Innovation” in a recent national competition, a senior local politician said on Tuesday. Paiboon Upattaising, president of Phuket Provincial Administrative Organisation (PPAO), said the vehicle is among 1003 projects sent by PPAOs throughout the country to contest in the competition. Only 61 projects including […]
BANGKOK, 27 September 2010 (NNT) – The number of road accidents caused by public buses has increased to almost 200 in the first eight months of 2010, with over 100 fatalities and nearly 2,000 injuries. According to Land Transport Department Director-General Chairat Sanguansue, 186 road accidents were reported in the first eight months of this […]
A bus driver was in a serious condition last night after he was shot by an angry passenger in Bangkok yesterday morning. Reports said Passada Pu-ngerndao, 50, the driver of a number 1075 bus, refused to stop in front of Soi Amornpan despite a request from the passenger to do so. He allegedly said he […]
AN AIRCRAFT transporter and a bus carrying airline staff collided in darkness at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok last night, killing one person and injuring 30 others. The injured were mostly thought to be Thai Airways staff. The bus tipped over in the crash, about 8.15pm, a police spokesman later told the media. One person, a […]
An intoxicated Canadian motorist on Friday morning caused a fatal car accident with a baht-bus at the Loma roundabout in North Pattaya, according to police. All twelve people involved in the accident were later transported to hospital, one Thai woman later dying of her injuries. Pattaya, the 10th of September 2010 [PDN]: At approximately 4:00am […]
