BANGKOK, 25 July 2011 (NNT) – The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has filed a lawsuit against former Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin and others involved in the illegal purchase of fire apparatus in 2004. Appointed by the NACC, lawyer Sitthichoke Sricharoen traveled to the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions to submit a […]
Thailand train accident in Ratchaburi. Forty-two passengers, 19 Thais and 23 foreigners, were wounded when an express train hit a 10-wheel truck loaded with rubber wood at a railway crossing in Ratchaburi’s Pak Tho district on Tuesday, reports said. The Bangkok-Surat Thani express train taking a large number of Thai and foreign tourists, mostly destined […]
TOKYO (Dow Jones)–Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (7211) has agreed to produce pickup trucks for Nissan Motor Co. (7201) at its plant in Thailand starting in fiscal 2012, the two companies said Wednesday. Under the latest accord, Mitsubishi will roll out Nissan’s “Navara” pickup truck model. The move is the latest of collaboration between the two companies […]
A van transporting students from Bangkok back to Yala crashed with a ten-wheel truck, killing seven students and the van driver and injuring eight other students Tuesday, police said. The accident happened at 12:30 pm on the Asia Highway in Tambon Klong Channuan of Surat Thani’s Wiang Sa district. Read more: The Nation
NARATHIWAT, July 3 – Two election officials were wounded Sunday, ambushed as they were transporting ballot boxes by car in insurgency-impacted Narathiwat’s Si Sakhon district, while a bombing occurred in Ruso district in the afternoon. Two election workers, one identified as Boonting Wanthongsang and the other unidentified, were shot by gunmen hiding along the road […]
A transport truck collided with a ten-wheel truck in Chiang Mai’s Doi Saket district Tuesday, killing eight passengers and seriously injuring three others. The accident took place at around 7.30am on Doi Saket – Chiang Rai Road, after the transport truck for Wiang Kalong – Chiang Mai route, running downhill, overtook other vehicle but could […]
Four soldiers were killed in an ambush late yesterday evening in Pattani, not far from a busy market they and fellow patrol members were stationed to provide security for shoppers. All individual weapons and one side arm belonged to them were snatched by a team of insurgents, who disguised in civilian clothes as local shoppers, […]
Sukhothai police arrested two men from Chiang Rai on charges of possessing one million methamphetamine pills on Wednesday night, Sukhothai police chief Pol Col Sirin Chantaravanich said. Pol Col Sirin told reporters that Snr Sgt Maj Chaithawat Suthamsiriyothin was driving his car home from Mae Lum checkpoint on the Denchai-Sri Satchanalai road when he saw […]
