(27 January) A cyclist has been killed and three others severely injured by a driver who reportedly raced with another car on the highway in Kanchanaburi province. The incident took place at a roadside in Tamaka district, where one cyclist was found dead at the scene, while three other cyclists laid on the ground with […]
NAKHON SAWAN, Jan 25 – Farmers from five provinces have blocked Asian Highway at Nakhon Sawan to pressure the caretaker government to pay them for rice they sold under the rice pledging scheme. The farmers said that during the last five months, many rice farmers in many provinces did not receive their money so they […]
BANGKOK, Jan 18 – Saraburi highway police seized over 2 million pills of methamphetamine (meth) worth Bt600 million hidden in a pickup truck heading towards Bangkok. Deputy national police commander Pol Gen Somyot Poompanmoung and Office of Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) secretary-general Pol Gen Pongsapat Pongcharoen jointly chaired a press conference on the seizure of […]
Farmers from five northern provinces will blockade the Asian Highway and heighten their protest to oust the caretaker government after the government failed to pay them as promised today. Farmer leader Kittisak Ratanawaraha, president of the Network for Northern Farmers, said now farmers from Phichit, Nakhon Sawan, Sukhothai, Kamphaengpet and Phitsanulok are prepared for the […]
PHICHIT, 7 January 2014 (NNT) – Rice growers from five lower Northern provinces have blocked a major highway in Phichit in a bid to pressure the government to speed up payment owed under the rice-pledging scheme. About 500 farmers from Phitsanulok, Nakhon Sawan, Phichit, Sukhothai and Kamphaeng Phet have sealed off highway number 117, which […]
(1 January) At least 266 people have been killed in 2,355 road accidents which have occurred during the 5-day New Year vacation season, police said. More than 2,500 people have also been injured by these accidents since the long vacation started on 27 December, according to the police statistics. Read more: khaosod.co.th
Tyres of some 30 vehicles flattened by spikes placed on Bangkok-bound Phetkasem highway in Prachuap Khiri Khan. News source: MCOT
A Malaysian car driver was killed and his two Malaysian passengers were seriously injured after they were ejected from the vehicle during a high-impact collision with a stationary truck on Highway 7 in Pattaya on Tuesday morning. Police and rescue services rushed to the scene and identified the deceased driver of a Honda Brio as […]
