BANGKOK, 1 April 2011 (NNT) – A total of eight southern provinces have been experiencing serious flooding resulting in 13 fatalities as of 31 March 2011, according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM). DDPM Director-General Wiboon Sanguanpong reported that there have been 514 sub-districts in 81 districts under eight provinces in the […]
SOLDIERS and volunteer reinforcements were moving to a remote area of Krabi this afternoon as officials assessed the scale of a natural disaster than has left at least 13 people dead, scores injured, and hundreds still missing. At least 1100 people have been evacuated as hillside torrents and mudslides turn valley villages around mountainous Khao […]
BANGKOK, March 11 – Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Friday said he will dissolve the House of Representatives, Thailand’s lower house of Parliament, by the first week of May after organic laws are amended and pave the way for the general election. Draft amendments of three organic laws related to the general election are expected […]
Pattaya, Chon Buri – A 60-year-old Swiss man was found hung in a house in this seaside town Thursday. The body of Steineer Rolf Anton was found by his younger sister in a house in Bang Lamung district. The sister said Anton has been living at the house for four years. She said she arrived […]
An American ex-soldier, living in a village in North Pattaya was rescued by friends who prevented him from taking his own life on Saturday afternoon. Police and Rescue Services were called to the location and were told that Mr. Charles Wayne Shehane aged 55 from USA was on the second floor of his house and […]
AN EXPAT who has been living on Phuket for more than 10 years was found dead in a house in Rawai yesterday. He was Andreas Born, 49. Mr Born’s body was found in an upstairs room of a house in a soi near the landmark Shell Museum. Neighbors alerted police, who said Mr Born had […]
An English resident of Pattaya and his Thai Wife were seriously assaulted during a house robbery late on Sunday Night. The incident occurred at the Majestic Residence off the Pratamnuk Road in South Pattaya. The break-in occurred at a house owned by Mr. David Snell aged 62 who was rushed to the Pattaya International Hospital […]
(CNN) — At least 12 people were injured when a bomb exploded in southern Thailand Sunday morning, police said. The explosion caused a fire that burned down about a dozen houses, Yala Police Col. Krisada Kaewchandee said. Investigators believe a car bomb caused the blast, he said. The explosion occurred in a region that has […]
