U-Tapao Rayong-Pattaya International Airport on Wednesday announced its readiness to become a fully functional commercial airport that can facilitate AirAsia Group’s flights, particularly those to to China which will commence later this year. The airport has plans to add a new passenger terminal by February 2016, making it a major center for eastern tourism in […]
CHONBURI — A rooster and a hen tied the knot in Chonburi province today, a union that their owners hope will produce talented birds for cockfighting tournaments. The wedding, which took place in a village in Ban Bueng district this morning, was modeled after a traditional Thai wedding with monks’ prayer, wedding parade, and dowry. […]
A gruesome death occurred at the Pet Smart, Pet food factory in Chonburi Monday evening. A Cambodian worker who had worked at the plant for five years was pulled through a meat grinding machine. Fellow employees described the man as a hard working man who did not smoke or drink. Read more: kissthailand.asia
BANGKOK, 27 April 2015 (NNT) – Customs officials at Laem Chabang Port in Chonburi have seized three more tonnes of African elephant tusks worth over THB200 million. Gen Dapong Rattanasuwan, the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment acting as Chairman of CITES Standing Committee of Thailand, announced the seizure at a press conference also attended […]
As the Songkran water festival has ended in all provinces since Thursday, but in Bang Saen district of Chonburi province the water throwing festival has just begun. Today local authorities and the private sector held merit-making, and several activities to mark the traditional New Year along the beach of Bang Saen. Read more: thaipbs.or.th Thai […]
A fresh autopsy on the body of 40-year-old big-bike rider Nares Rojboonsongsri, allegedly shot dead by a Chon Buri policeman, has confirmed that he died from a gunshot wound to the head. Dr Suranarong Srisuwan, director of the Office of Forensic Science Service 2, said the injuries found on Nares’s head during the second post-mortem […]
CHON BURI: Police and military officers arrested about 100 illegal migrant workers from Cambodia and Myanmar in Bang Lamung district on Wednesday after receiving reports of interracial brawls at a construction site. A 150-strong combined police and military team surrounded a 20-rai construction camp site of Worakij Co in tambon Nong Prue and searched the […]
Five unregistered fishing boats were seized and six Cambodian crew members arrested for working illegally in Chon Buri on Wednesday. Bang Lamung district chief Sakhon Kanchanwatta on Wednesday and a team of officials from various agencies inspected the fishing boats at Ao Ban Bang Lamung following complaints. Read more: Bangkok Post
