Chiang Rai – Four North Korean women surrendered to police in this northern province late Sunday and asked for help to be resettled in a third country. The four women, who could not speak Thai and English, carried their bags to meet police at the Chiang Rai Mung police station at 15 minutes after midnight. […]
Bangkok, Oct 18 (DPA) An US-made F16 fighter jet crashed in northern Thailand Monday, killing the pilot, the Royal Thai Air Force said. ‘This is the first F16 crash we’ve ever had,’ Air Vice Marshal Monton Sanchukorn said. The jet was flying with three other fighters from Nakhon Sawan province to Chiang Mai when it […]
BANGKOK, 18 October 2010 (NNT) – The State Railway of Thailand has canceled part of its northeastern and northern train services in light of flood. The State Railway of Thailand yesterday disclosed that it had canceled part of its services to and from the Northeast and the North. All services north of Nakorn Sawan have […]
BANGKOK – A senior Thai security official alleged Monday that members of the anti-government Red Shirt movement were trained in Cambodia to assassinate top Thai leaders, including the prime minister. Eleven men who were arrested last week in the northern Thai province of Chiang Mai were among 39 given ideological and combat training in a […]
CHIANG MAI, Oct 6 – Over 400 new patients in the northern region of Thailand have been diagnosed as infected with Influenza Type A(H1N1) in only the month of September, the Office of Disease Prevention and Control 10 in Chiang Mai reported on Wednesday. Following the ongoing spread of the A(H1N1) virus in the eight […]
A number of people, particularly tourists, in Suan Phueng District, Ratchaburi Province, have been affected by flood caused by torrential rain. Rescue team has been trying to rescue more than 30 people stranded at the resort in the district. According to Ratchaburi Deputy Governor, soldiers and villagers in the district managed to construct a temporary […]
BANGKOK, Oct 4 – The Thai authorities have detained 11 men suspected of involvement in a movement to overthrow Thailand’s revered monarchy and planning the assassination of the country’s key public figures, a senior police officer said on Monday. Provincial Police Region 5 designated commander Pol Maj Gen Chaiya Siriamphankul said the 11 were arrested […]
MAE HONG SON, Oct 1 – Over 100 refugees with symptoms of common flu — influenza — are receiving inpatient medical treatment in the nursing sections of two refugee camps in the northern province of Mae Hong Son. The camps comprise refugees who fled Myanmar when the Karen military headquarters at Manerplaw was overrun by […]
