BANGKOK, 13 July 2011 (NNT) – The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) has issued a warning for possible flash floods and mudslides in 21 provinces in all parts of the country except for the northeast during this period. The 21 provinces comprise Mae Hong Son, Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Phayao, Nan, Lampang, Lamphun, […]
Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Muang district police Tuesday arrested two karaoke bar operators and rescued six Thai women and four Lao females aged 14-24. Rampeung Thanompeud, 48, and Samrerng Yodpan, 26, were initially charged with procuring women under 18 for prostitution and human trafficking, but the duo denied the charges. Police also seized Bt7,500 cash. Read […]
BANGKOK, 9 June 2011 (NNT) – A total of 23 provinces are experiencing drought while another 30 provinces in the North, Northeast, East and central region are warned of torrential rain from 8 to 12 June 2011, according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM). DDPM Director-General Viboon Sanguanpong reported that 23 provinces […]
BANGKOK, April 8 — Thailand’s Customs Department officials arrested a man in Prachuap Khiri Khan province for attempting to smuggle nearly 2,000 live tree monitor lizards worth more than Bt1.8 million to Bangkok. Customs Department Director-General Prasong Poontaneat told a press conference that a checkpoint set up at Silaloi sub district of Sam Roi Yot […]
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN, March 24 – Thai domestic airline Solar Air is opening a new route from Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport to the seaside resort of Hua Hin in this southern province, according to managing director Jirathit Aungaree. He said the auspicious flight is set before the soon to come Thai new year, or ‘Songkran […]
Horrified by news of radiation threats from quake-hit nuclear power plants in Japan, Thai residents of eight provinces that have been studied as possible sites for such plants have asked the prime minister to review the plans. The coordinator of the Thai People Don’t Want Nuclear Power Plants Network, Sodsai Sangsok, told a news conference […]
A fact-finding panel investigating the disappearance of weapons from an Army depot in Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Thanarat camp has initially found that the “missing” arms were not stolen. The panel said corruption and shortcomings on the part of officials responsible for taking care of the weapons was the cause, Army spokesperson Col Sirichan Ngathong said […]
Phitsanulok Police have seized around 2,600,000 ya ba tablets and 102 kilograms of crystal meth from drug smugglers, while Prachuap Khiri Khan Police arrested an Indian man with 22 kilograms of heroin, it was announced at a press conference yesterday. Police Region 6 chief Lt-General Ajin Chotiwong reported via video link that police obtained a […]
