CHAINAT – A homemade bomb exploded and injured an eleven-year-old girl while she was cleaning her school grounds in central Thailand this morning, police said. According to police, the fifth-grader at Wat Thammamul School in Mueang district was assigned to clean the area around the school with a broom stick and came across a black-wrapped […]
THE 14 detained anti-coup students will not seek bail despite an overture by the National Security Council and National Reform Council to change their minds, Kritsadang Nutcharas, a representative of the students’ legal team, said. The lawyer said the students – members of the New Democracy Movement – rejected the legitimacy and authority of the […]
The European Union today issued a statement calling the arrest of 14 Thai students by Thai authorities a disturbing development. In the statement issued by the European Union Delegation and posted on its European Union in Thailand Facebook today, it said the statement was agreed upon by the EU Heads of Mission in Thailand. Read […]
The director of Triam Udom Suksa Patthanakarn Lamlukka School in Pathum Thani has been temporarily removed after more than 2,000 students called for his expulsion on Monday, accusing him of mismanaging the school’s finances. The junior and senior high school students demanded that director Sathorn Sombun, who was appointed over a year ago, be transferred […]
Fourteen anti-coup students belonging to the Neo Democracy Movement were arrested Friday afternoon after the military issued arrest warrant against them for having violated the National Council for Peace and Order’s rally ban. They were accused of violating Article 116 of the Criminal Code that prohibits causing of public disturbance. Read more: The Nation
A teen girl distracted by her smartphone fell onto the tracks at BTS Krung Thonburi in front of an oncoming train this morning, witnesses said. The crowd of waiting commuters erupted in panic at about 8:30am when the train came to an emergency stop as it entered the station. Read more: coconuts.co By Coconuts.co
A 15-year-old student was killed and his mother and elder brother were severely injured when their motorcycle was hit by a Bangkok-Yala train at a railway crossing in Nakhon Si Thammarat’s Thungson district at 6:50 am Thursday. The mother was riding a motorcycle to take her sons to school. Read more: The Nation
KRABI — Thai police visited the home of one of the five Thai students who were arrested in Pakistan for allegedly trying to smuggle a firearm and ammunition onto a plane. Prasert Suthok, 46, told Khaosod that police officers from the Special Branch department arrived at his home in the southern province of Krabi at […]
