PHITSANULOK, March 9 — Police in the northern province of Phitsanulok seized 2.6 million pills of methamphetamine, ‘Ya Ba’, and 102 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine hydrochloride, ‘ice’, with an estimated street value of more than Bt1 billion. The joint operation of Border Patrol Police and provincial police in Phitsanulok’s Chat Trakan district seized the large […]
DETROIT – Chevrolet today offered a sneak peek at its Colorado show truck that will officially be unveiled prior to the 32nd Bangkok International Motor Show, which begins March 25. The show truck previews the next-generation Colorado midsize pickup truck, which will build on Chevrolet’s strong truck DNA and award-winning heritage. Thailand was chosen as […]
YALA, Feb 13 – A Sunday explosion at the market in the Yala municipality injured 17 people including three officials and 14 civilians and the cost of damages is estimated at least 10 million baht (US$330,000). It took about three hours to put the fire under control at 1pm Sunday, after a car bomb exploded […]
A road crash left two dead and five injured after a car failed to stop at a Police Checkpoint in North Pattaya. In the early hours of Saturday Morning a White Isuzu Pick-up failed to stop at the checkpoint and left the area at a high rate of speed. Police gave chase and caught up […]
Walking along Sanphawut Road at around 4.30pm on Thursday, my son and I were stopped by a group of three men, one in uniform, standing opposite the Chinese temple. They nodded at each other then stopped us and asked whether we were Indians. Assuming they were policemen, I answered yes and showed them my driving […]
A Canadian couple were killed when the pickup-truck-bus they were riding in from the airport to their hotel crashed in Thailand only 15 minutes into 2011, according to Thai news reports. The Phuket Gazette reported Monday that Aryporn Sunthorn, 50, and Kongseng Sunthorn, 61, were killed when the Mazda pickup truck, modified to serve as […]
NARATHIWAT, Dec 29 – Four people were wounded by a car bomb at a Highway Department office in the violence-plagued province of Narathiwat Wednesday morning. Hidden in a pick-up truck, the bomb exploded in Bajo district, injuring four people–Abul Dueramae, 24; Uma Jeror, 69; Satorpa Uma, 50; and Masamree Naleng, 26. They were all sent […]
Two of the 10 leaked reports purported to have come from the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) and recently obtained by The Nation reveal how live bullets were “likely used” on both a bystander and a red shirt, with investigators concluding both cases were likely the work of soldiers acting on orders. In the case […]
