PHETCHABUN, June 2 – One villager drowned Thursday as heavy rains throughout the night triggered forest runoff in this lower northern Thai province, while portions of the southern province of Phangnga were under water as the rains continued. Forest runoff from heavy rain hit Phetchabun’s Wichian Buri and Nong Phai districts Thursday. Torrential waterflows swept […]
An assistant village headman was shot dead in an ambush in Bannang Sata district of Yala on Saturday morning, said Pol Col Suwat Wongpaibul, chief of Bannang Sata police station. Museh Daleh, 46, assistant village chief of Ban Airrong, was parking his motorcycle in front of his rubber plantation in tambon Tanoh Puteh when gunmen […]
A Cambodian non-government organisation claims that at least 10 Cambodian civilians had been shot dead while hunting for food or logging in the forested mountains on the Thai-Cambodian border last year and early this year. Executive director of the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) Ouch Leng and humanrights activist Chan Soveth came up with […]
A small chartered plane crashed into a northern Philippine mountain park and burst into flames Sunday, killing two people on board, police said. Four other people on board were injured and taken to hospital after the aircraft slammed into a forest track at the Camp John Hay resort. Read more: Bangkok Post
Two F16 fighters of the Thai air force taking part in the Cobra Gold 2011 exercise crashed on Monday morning in Chaiyaphum, but both pilots ejected safely, air force spokesman Monthon Satchukorn said. Air Marshal Monthon said the two F16s disappeared from radar at 10.20am. They were part of a flight of four F16s which […]
A team of police administrative officers and Forest Department officials torched a cannabis field in Ratchaburi province after receiving a tip off from residents nearby. A joint force made up of the police-administrative officers and officials from the Department of Forest, trekked for more than 3 hours to reach a 10 rai cannabis field located […]
Dr Ajong Chumsai na Ayudhya, a Thai scientist who has worked with the US space agency Nasa in the past, said yesterday that the areas around the Gulf of Thailand would be hit by tsunamis and that Bangkok would be under water in less than seven years. At a seminar yesterday about the impact of […]
SURIN, Aug 20 – Three Thai villagers in Thailand’s northeastern border province of Surin were arrested by Cambodian authorities on charge of spying while they were hunting and collecting forest products along the border. Families of two detainees, Sanong Wongchareon and Ling Pongphet, said the duo and another villager, Lan Sapsri, were arrested by Cambodian […]
