A waitress was killed and her husband seriously injured when a landslide hit a small resort in Trat’s Koh Chang early yesterday. Naree Khok died in the disaster while her husband Rin was pinned under debris and waited in pain for more than 10 hours before being rescued, due to limited equipment. The couple worked […]
A number of people, particularly tourists, in Suan Phueng District, Ratchaburi Province, have been affected by flood caused by torrential rain. Rescue team has been trying to rescue more than 30 people stranded at the resort in the district. According to Ratchaburi Deputy Governor, soldiers and villagers in the district managed to construct a temporary […]
NEW YORK, Sept 25 — Thai Foreign Affairs Minister Kasit Piromya has urged his Kenyan counterpart to help rescue a Thai worker who was kidnapped earlier this week while working on an oil platform in Nigeria’s Niger Delta in West Africa, a senior ministry official said. Vimol Kidchob, a spokeswoman of the Thai Foreign Affairs […]
An intoxicated Canadian motorist on Friday morning caused a fatal car accident with a baht-bus at the Loma roundabout in North Pattaya, according to police. All twelve people involved in the accident were later transported to hospital, one Thai woman later dying of her injuries. Pattaya, the 10th of September 2010 [PDN]: At approximately 4:00am […]
A clean-up operation has begun after a ship loaded with 40,000 litres of diesel capsized near Phuket. Nawin Thananet, the 3rd Fleet’s chief of staff, said a helicopter was sent yesterday to survey the oil spill site 12 nautical miles off Phuket. The survey found an oil slick 0.8 kilometres wide and 4.8km long. The […]
Thai oil tanker with 40,000 liters of fuel sinks in heavy rain, rough seas near Phuket; four crew safely rescued. MCOT BANGKOK, 4 September 2010 (NNT) – A 40,000- liter oil tanker sinks off the Chalong Bay of Phuket, all crew members are reported safe. At 11.00 hrs, a tanker carrying 40,000 liters oil named […]
A Pattaya woman who was upset due to her Italian boyfriends’ imminent return to his country ran into the sea in an attempt to end her life. Pattaya, 2nd September 2010 [PDN] At 6.30 pm the Pattaya Police radio center was informed that a Thai woman had quarreled with her Italian boyfriend and ran into […]
Just 4 days after experiencing the accidental death of his 4-year-old son, a grief-stricken father decided to end his own life. At 3.30 pm, on the 28th August 2010, Pol.Lt.Col. Anuchet Kadsomboon, Pattaya police investigator, was notified that a foreign man had committed suicide in room no. 501/49, 5th floor of Jomtien Plaza, Jomtien Beach […]
