Four people died and two others injured after the pickup truck they were travelling in crashed into a roadside tree in Tha Song Yang district of Tak province late Tuesday night. Mae Moei station police said the incident happened near Kilometre 112 on Highway 105. Full story: thaipbs.or.th By Thai PBS
TAK – Myanmar police handed over fugitive and former police doctor Supat Laohawattana to Thai authorities on Thursday to face his death sentence for killing a Myanmar worker in Phetchaburi province 13 years ago. Deputy national police chief Thammasak Wicharaya arrived from Bangkok at the border crossing in Ban Rim Moei of Mae Sot district […]
TAK: A worker at a refugee camp was trampled to death as she tried to flee a herd of wild elephants apparently spooked by the sound of her motorcycle in Mae Ramat district on Friday afternoon. Wansa Khiri-archadai, 26, and her husband Boontham Chokthammakarn, 31, were on the way to visit relatives in nearby Mae […]
TAK – A pickup truck driver was arrested with about 100 pirate iPhones and 1,000 empty iPhone boxes at a checkpoint in Mae Sot district, bordering Myanmar on Monday evening. Police, soldiers and customs officials arrested Janya Deemek, 46, after stopping and searching a Bangkok-registered pickup truck at the checkpoint on Tak-Mae Sot Road in […]
TAK — Three people, one of them a pregnant woman, were injured after a van they were travelling in overturned in Ban Tak district of this northern border province early Sunday, police said. The accident occurred at about 5.30am between kilometre markers 539 and 540 on Phahon Yothin Road in tambon Samokhon when the van […]
TAK, 1st January 2017 (NNT) – The provincial governor of Tak has inaugurated a weekend night market as a new shopping spot for the local people and visitors. The market’s inauguration ceremony took place today at Tatong Community in Ban Tak district. The event featured a display of items from the One Tambon One Product […]
TAK, 12 June 2016 (NNT) – Heavy rains in Tha Song Yang in Tak province have caused strong currents in rivers, prompting provincial administrative officers to warn the local people to closely monitor the situation. People, especially those who live near the Mei river, were told to stay vigilant to flooding after heavy rains fell […]
A Thai prison guard was killed after he was hit on the head with a hammer by a Myanmar inmate trying to break out of Tak’s Mae Sot prison yesterday morning, Justice Ministry deputy permanent secretary Kobkiat Kasivivat said. The unnamed inmate then tried to climb over the jail fence but was captured. Read more: […]
