46 hurt after bus overturns in Lop Buri Seven people were killed and 46 others injured when the double-decker bus they were travelling in, transporting Chiang Rai FC fans to Buri Ram, overturned yesterday in Lop Buri’s Lam Sonthi district. After the accident was reported at 8am yesterday, police and rescue workers rushed to the […]
CHIANG RAI, June 11 — Police today arrested a Thai man in Mae Sai district bordering Myanmar and charged him of illegally possessing two million methamphetamine pills and 21 kilogrammes of heroin, the largest drug seizure ever made in the district, police said. Police told a press conference that 50-year-old Manop Chaichana who is a […]
BANGKOK, 9 June 2011 (NNT) – A total of 23 provinces are experiencing drought while another 30 provinces in the North, Northeast, East and central region are warned of torrential rain from 8 to 12 June 2011, according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM). DDPM Director-General Viboon Sanguanpong reported that 23 provinces […]
Sukhothai police arrested two men from Chiang Rai on charges of possessing one million methamphetamine pills on Wednesday night, Sukhothai police chief Pol Col Sirin Chantaravanich said. Pol Col Sirin told reporters that Snr Sgt Maj Chaithawat Suthamsiriyothin was driving his car home from Mae Lum checkpoint on the Denchai-Sri Satchanalai road when he saw […]
BANGKOK, 1 June 2011 (NNT) – Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva and his team are scheduled to visit northern provinces, starting on Wednesday in Phayao, for their political campaigns. Prime Minister’s Office Minister and Democrat key member Satit Wonghnongtaey stated that Mr Abhisit will this evening fly to Chiang Rai, and then travel by car […]
THAILAND – Political violence has continued during the runup to the July 3 poll, with a canvasser under gunfire attack in Lampang, and a fake bomb planted in Ayutthaya. There was one canvasser working for Chat Thai Pattana Party shot dead in Chiang Rai, however likely out of personal conflicts with his local rivals, local […]
BANGKOK, 19 May 2011 (NNT) – Pheu Thai Party’s prime minister candidate Yingluck Shinawatra will start the election campaign for her party very soon after she has registered herself with the Election Commission as a party-listed MP candidate. The leading candidate stated that she will start her political campaigns by visiting local people after the […]
A Thai tour guide surrendered himself to the police confessing that he had shot dead one Japanese tourist and wounded another, after a heated argument during the trekking in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand. On 26th April, 2011 the tour guide, Apichart Inphisak, 41, turned himself in to the police and admitted to the crime that […]
