Thai military probing soldier’s involvement in police, DSI extortion scandal

MI-17 V5 helicopter at Don Mueang, Bangkok
Royal Thai Army MI-17 V5 helicopter at Don Mueang, Bangkok. Image: Por Khan.

An armed forces fact-finding panel is looking into a soldier’s alleged involvement in the police extortion of millions of baht in exchange for the release [Read More…]

Troops clash with armed drug traffickers in Chiang Mai, seize 200,000 meth pills

Mountains in Chang Mai
Mountains in Chang Mai, northern Thailand. Photo: Paul Brockmeyer.

Thai army troops seized 200,000 methamphetamine tablets today (Sunday), following a brief gun battle in Mae Ai district of the northern province of Chiang Mai, [Read More…]

Probe ordered after 17 defence students hospitalised after harsh training in Narathiwat

Young soldiers in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya
Young soldiers in Thailand. Photo: Michael Coghlan / flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0.

The commander of the Fourth Army Region has ordered an investigation after 17 territorial defence students, in Thailand’s southern province of Narathiwat, were sent to [Read More…]