A Melbourne teacher was treated in hospital after her car was allegedly shot at during a school trip in the north of Thailand. Two teachers, from Ringwood Secondary College, were travelling in a car near Chiang Mai when the front windscreen shattered on Sunday. One of the teachers, Lynda Cody, suffered a minor injury to […]
Residents of ten northern provinces of Thailand were Monday warned to brace themselves for possible flash floods this week. The National Disaster Warning Centre announced that the ten provinces would be hit by heavy rains from Monday to Friday, leading to possible flash floods. Read more: The Nation
PRAE, 9 July 2011 (NNT) – The Excise Department and Police Division 5 and 6 have added more technologies to their operation which began 3 months ago to stop the smuggling of illegal alcohol in the North of Thailand. Police have confiscated illegal items worth 5 million THB in fine. According to Department Director-General, Mr. […]
BANGKOK, 5 July 2011 (NNT) – The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) has issued a warning for possible flash floods and mudslides in 16 provinces of the northern, central and eastern regions during this period. DDPM Director-General Viboon Sanguanpong said villagers in the areas are warned to brace for heavy rain while those […]
Three British students on a holiday of a lifetime before they were due to start university have been killed in a horror bus crash in Thailand. The trio were Bruno Melling-Firth, 19, Conrad Quashie, 19, and Maximilian Boomgaarden-Cook, 19 – all friends from The Charter School in Dulwich. They died instantly when a bus struck […]
More than 7,000 people are suffering from flood-related diseases in Nan province, two days after the remnants of Typhoon Haima hit parts of Thailand. Most are suffering from athlete’s foot, insect stings and injuries from flood-related accidents. One person died in the floods, Public Health Ministry permanent secretary Dr Paijit Warachit said. Read more: The […]
BANGKOK, 29 June 2011 (NNT) – The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) has issued a warning for possible flash floods and mudslides in 22 provinces of the northern, eastern and southern regions during this period. The 22 provinces comprise Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai, Lampang, Lamphun, Chiang Rai, Phayao, Phrae, Nan, Tak, Sukhothai, […]
THAILAND – Six districts in the northern province of Nan, including the town of the same name, were declared flood disaster zones yesterday, while 50 schools were temporarily closed and the Nan Prison ordered some of its 100 inmates moved to other facilities. Five districts in the western province of Tak were also declared disaster […]
