CHIANG RAI: Nineteen students were injured, four of them seriously, when a van taking them to school crashed and rolled over at a curve during heavy rain in Mae Chan district on Wednesday morning. The accident occurred on Phahon Yothin Road in tambon Mae Chan about 6.40am, said Pol Capt Nopphon Kamnerd, a duty officer […]
CHIANG RAI: A bag containing 158,000 methamphetamine pills was found on a roadside in Muang district on Thursday evening. District chief Prasert Jitpreecheep said it was reported to him by a resident of San Thung Phatthana Village in Moo 1 of tambon Doi Lan. Full story: Bangkok Post CHINNAPHAT CHAIYAMOL BANGKOK POST
Thai paramilitary rangers from the Pha Muang task force on Sunday morning killed five drugs couriers and seized 1.9 million “yaba” methamphetamine pills in a forest about 700 metres from the Thai-Myanmar border in Chiang Rai’s Mae Fah Luang district. The 15-minute pre-dawn gunfight followed a tip-off to the Pha Muang task force that a […]
CHIANG RAI: A drug smuggler was caught and one million methamphetamine pills seized from his pickup truck following a police chase in Mae Sai district on Wednesday night. Police manning a checkpoint at the entrance to Thamluang-Khunnam Nang Non forest park in tambon Pongpha, near the Myanmar border, signaled a pickup truck with Chiang Rai […]
Two drug suspects were killed in a gunfight with narcotics police in Chiang Rai late Wednesday night when police tried to arrest them in a sting operation. An undercover policeman contacted the two suspects to buy drugs from them on the bypass road of Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district at 11pm. Full story: The Nation […]
CHIANG RAI: A drug smuggler was killed, two others arrested and more than 2 million speed pills seized following a clash with security forces along the Thai-Myanmar border in Mae Sai district late Friday night. A combined team of soldiers and police were sent to patrol a road along the border in Phamee village, tambon […]
CHIANG RAI — Eight drug couriers were killed and 600,000 methamphetamine pills and three assault rifles seized in a clash between a ranger unit and a band of armed drug couriers near the Thai-Myanmar border in Mae Sai district on Saturday night, according to media reports. The clash occurred at about 8.30pm after a patrol […]
CHIANG RAI, 31 January 2017 (NNT) – Authorities in Chiang Rai province have begun passing out blankets to residents due to a new wave of cold weather with temperatures reported as low as 15 degrees Celsius. Temperatures in Chiang Rai have continued to drop with average readings now at 15 degrees Celsius and reports from […]
