Two men reported to be detained already, while a third has allegedly fled; PM says Army chief Prayuth is investigating The Army is investigating the loss of more than 100 items of machine-guns and ammunition at the Thanarat Army barracks in Prachuab Khiri Khan province. Army commander-in-chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ochar confirmed that the missing weapons […]
Some of the weapons found to be missing from an army arsenal in Prachuap Khiri Khan province have been recovered, an army source said on Friday. The source said that on Thursday night, Capt Apiwat Saengsoong, a company commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the army’s Infantry Centre filed a complaint with Pran Buri […]
BANGKOK, 4 February 2011 (NNT) – The Royal Thai Army has acknowledged that a large number of weapons have disappeared from Dhanarat Infantry Camp in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, suspecting officers of fraud and negligence. In response to a report that over 100 items of military weaponry had gone missing from the army depot at […]
CHA-AM, 7 February 2011 (NNT) – A helicopter reportedly went down in the ocean off Thailand’s famous beach town of Hua Hin, Prachuap Khiri Khan province where the two pilots came out alive with only minor injuries and are now recuperating in the hospital. Hua Hin police reported that the helicopter belonging to Bo Fai […]
Thailand is set to lose its ranking as the world’s secondlargest coconut exporter and become a net importer as drought has damaged growing areas. For more than four years, Prachuap Khiri Khan, the country’s most important area for coconut cultivation, has been hit by drought. The province now has only about 400,000 rai (64,000 hectares) […]
BANGKOK, 21 January 2011 (NNT) – There have already been five provinces facing drought and 37 provinces declared cold-spell disaster zones, according to the latest report of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM). DDPM Director-General Viboon Sanguanpong reported that droughts had hit 36 districts in five provinces including two in the North, another […]
