The minister of natural resources and environment has issued new regulations to protect the century-old Yang Na trees along the iconic Chiang Mai-Lamphun highway, including bans on buildings and any activity that would affect their roots. The Chiang Mai provincial hall announced that the Royal Gazette had published the new ministerial notice. It was signed […]
PHUKET: A Phuket petrol station staffer escaped with only leg injuries after the pickup he was driving slammed into a tree on the central reservation on Thepkrasattri Rd in Muang Mai this morning (May 1). Lt Col Thitiwat Asasingha of the Thalang Police was called to the scene, the southbound lanes in front of the […]
Three elephants were crushed to death under the weight of a huge falling Ta Khian (Hopea Odorata) tree and three others suffered injuries at an elephant shelter in Mae Wang district of Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Mai on Wednesday, according to Thai Elephant Alliance Facebook page. A freak storm reportedly struck the district yesterday […]
KANCHANABURI: A five-months pregnant woman was seriously injured and her younger brother killed when a roadside tree fell onto a moving pick-up truck in Sangkhla Buri district on Saturday afternoon, police said. Pol Lt Col Piyachai Mankhong, a Sangkhla Buri police investigator, said the incident occurred at about 3.30pm while the woman, Kanokkorn Sangkhachi, 24, […]
A prominent director of a research think tank was killed by falling tree while walking in front of her house in Bangkok on Thursday. Ms. Deunden Nikomborirak was the Director of Thailand Development Research Institute research. TDRI director Somkiat Tangkitvanich confirmed the death of the researcher and think-tank director. After the accident she was rushed […]
CHON BURI: A European man was found hanged from a tree in a deserted alley in tambon Nong Prue, in Pattaya’s Bang Lamung district, about 8pm on Monday. The man was 180-185 centimetres tall and 35-40 years of age. He wore a white T-shirt with black stripes and white shorts. Police said it appeared he […]
LAMPANG: A passenger van rammed into a tree in Thoen district of this northern province early Sunday, injuring the driver and nine passengers, police said. The accident occurred at about 4.30am between kilometre markers 629-630 on Highway 1 near Ban Sop Toen in tambon Mae Thot. Full story: Bangkok Post ASSAWIN WONGNORKAEW BANGKOK POST
A second hanging from the same tree in Chon Buri has sparked rumours that the Jambolan plum might be haunted. A Cambodian migrant worker was found on Wednesday morning hanged from the same branch of the tree in Si Racha district that one of his compatriots used to commit suicide in 2017. Full story: The […]
