PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN, Jan 13 – A man was arrested in this southern province for smuggling 180 pangolins, a protected scaly anteater species, Governor Veera Sriwatanatrakul said. Thirty-two year-old suspect Narong Songsukon was driving a pickup truck in the provincial seat when he was apprehended by customs officials. Read more: MCOT
An express train bound for Bangkok from Surat Thani Province hit a pickup truck in Pranburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan province. One person has been confirmed dead while more than 120 others have been injured. Read more: TAN Network
BANGKOK, Oct 26 – The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) is ready to evacuate about 1,600 flood victims currently sheltering in Bangkok to new temporary shelters in nearby provinces, SRT Governor Yuthana Thapcharoen said on Wednesday. Being ordered by the government’s Flood Relief Operations Centre (FROC) to provide rail service transferring flood evacuees to other […]
BANGKOK, 24 September 2011 (NNT) – Thailand’s National Disaster Warning Center has issued an alert for people in several provinces for possible mudslides and flashfloods during this time. The flood alert has been issued to people in Nakhon Ratchasima, Buriram, Surin, Si Sa Ket, Ubon Ratchathani, Amnat Charoen, Nakhon Nayok and Prachin Buri. Meanwhile mudslides […]
Thai Police have arrested a Taiwanese call center gang in Hua Hin. Immigration police cooperated with Hua Hin police officers and obtained a search warrant for a house in Hua Hin District of Prachuap Khiri Khan Province. Officers found a group of Taiwanese and Chinese nationals who had set up the house as a call […]
BANGKOK, Aug 4 – Thailand’s immigration police on Thursday arrested a Swedish man who has been hiding in the kingdom for nine years after eluding warrants in Scandinavian countries on 20 million krona fraud case. Carl-Gustav Alexander Tartagni was arrested in Prachuab Khiri Khan’s seaside resort of Hua Hin after concerned agencies in Scandinavian countries […]
Advanced Info Service (AIS), Thailand’s largest mobile operator, has started commercial 3G wireless broadband services as part of its 10-billion-baht network expansion this year. The 3G services – running on HSPA, Edge plus and WiFi systems – will be available initially in Bangkok and nine major areas: Chiang Mai, Chon Buri, Hat Yai in Songkhla, […]
Thailand train accident in Ratchaburi. Forty-two passengers, 19 Thais and 23 foreigners, were wounded when an express train hit a 10-wheel truck loaded with rubber wood at a railway crossing in Ratchaburi’s Pak Tho district on Tuesday, reports said. The Bangkok-Surat Thani express train taking a large number of Thai and foreign tourists, mostly destined […]
