Pattani – Two Buddhist vendors were shot dead on a road in this southern border province Friday, police said. Mongkol Jaikla, 30, and his father, Watana Jaikla, 56, were ambushed by gunmen on a remote road in Sai Buri district at 12:10 pm. The two, residents from Nakhon Ratchasima, were driving their pick-up trucks to […]
PATTANI, Aug 9 – One man was killed Tuesday, and two others were wounded in three roadside shootings in the violence-plagued Thai southern province of Pattani, according to local police. In Yaring district, Yuso Waekeuji was shot to death while riding a motorcycle from the provincial seat to his home in Sadawa subdistrict. The 52-year-old […]
Three Thai tourists have been arrested by Laotian soldiers in Laotian city of Pak Se while they took photos near a military camp since Sunday and their friends and relatives haven’t heard from them since, the alleged victims’ friend revealed Wednesday. Chiang Rai resident identified only as Ore told reporters that Thanwa Supakham, 34, Samart […]
TOKYO (Dow Jones)–Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (7211) has agreed to produce pickup trucks for Nissan Motor Co. (7201) at its plant in Thailand starting in fiscal 2012, the two companies said Wednesday. Under the latest accord, Mitsubishi will roll out Nissan’s “Navara” pickup truck model. The move is the latest of collaboration between the two companies […]
Four soldiers were killed in an ambush late yesterday evening in Pattani, not far from a busy market they and fellow patrol members were stationed to provide security for shoppers. All individual weapons and one side arm belonged to them were snatched by a team of insurgents, who disguised in civilian clothes as local shoppers, […]
CHIANG RAI, June 11 — Police today arrested a Thai man in Mae Sai district bordering Myanmar and charged him of illegally possessing two million methamphetamine pills and 21 kilogrammes of heroin, the largest drug seizure ever made in the district, police said. Police told a press conference that 50-year-old Manop Chaichana who is a […]
Sukhothai police arrested two men from Chiang Rai on charges of possessing one million methamphetamine pills on Wednesday night, Sukhothai police chief Pol Col Sirin Chantaravanich said. Pol Col Sirin told reporters that Snr Sgt Maj Chaithawat Suthamsiriyothin was driving his car home from Mae Lum checkpoint on the Denchai-Sri Satchanalai road when he saw […]
BANGKOK, June 4 – A drug dealer was arrested in Pathumthani province in possession of 786,000 methamphetamines worth over Bt100 million in street value, two pick-up trucks and Bt3-million cash. Thailand’s national police chief Gen Wichean Potephosree on Saturday said Aniwat Sae-Lew was arrested by Metropolitan Police Bureau while he was delivering the meth to […]
