Yala – Insurgents launched a bomb attack in Yala hours before Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha visited a school in this southern border province Tuesday. Insurgents detonated a roadside home-made bomb at noon to ambush a unit of six troops traveling in an armoured personnel carrier to Ban Bueng Nam Sai School in Raman district. […]
Some 6,000 soldiers were deployed to guard 400 schools of the three southernmost provinces during the school term opening yesterday, Army Chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha said Wednesday. However there were two problems; that the teacher and student protection was a receptive measure in the face of insurgents’ ability to launch attack anytime; and that some […]
BANGKOK, 12 May 2012 (NNT) – The Public Health Ministry of Thailand is set to rid the country of as many mosquito-breeding grounds as possible before the new school term begins. Dr. Suwannachai Wattanayingcharoenchai, deputy director-general of the Disease Control Department, said that all provincial health offices have been instructed to work with the local […]
PATTANI, April 23 – A defence volunteer was shot dead in the restive southern province of Pattani Monday morning as he was on his way to provide security for a school in the municipality. The victim was identified as Sulkipli Tahe, 46, a defence volunteer in the provincial seat. Read more: MCOT
A British Teacher who would allegedly sell drugs to tourists during school holidays, has been arrested by Pattaya Police. Mr. Steven Palmer aged 42 from Folkestone, Kent was arrested outside of his rented apartment in Soi Beokeow in Central Pattaya early on Sunday Morning following an undercover operation using 4,000 Baht in market bank notes […]
NARATHIWAT, April 19 – A school building was set on fire here Wednesday night and a bomb exploded nearby, targeting government personnel, but no one was wounded in either incident on the eve of the visit of Deputy Prime Minister Yuthasak Sasiprapa, who oversees national security, and Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha. The two-storey Ban Ta […]
SINGAPORE, April 17 — The first group of men who allegedly paid for sex with a minor via an online vice ring — a case that grabbed headlines in February because it involved high-ranking men in the public and private sectors — were charged in court yesterday. Among the 44 who entered the dock were […]
The wife of Irish teacher John Behan, 37, who was involved in an altercation with a security guard at the Bangkok’s Skytrain Prompong Station last week, yesterday filed a police complaint reporting that her family had received a threatening phone call. Patcharamas Phusri, 36, said a Thai man speaking English called the language school where […]
