NARATHIWAT, March 16 – Two persons were killed and three others were wounded in a shooting by presumed insurgents at a teashop in Narathiwat’s Ruso district late Tuesday night while a cow herder on Wednesday was seriously wounded in a Pattani’s Sai Buri ambush. Defence Volunteer Arom Yothatip and Pop Tongkaew, a 55-year-old civilian, were […]
BANGKOK, 15 February 2011 (NNT) – The Ministry of Public Health has found several Thai-Cambodian border residents suffering from mental illnesses following the recent border clashes and has tasked village health volunteers to take care of them. Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit reported that 72 mobile medical units had been dispatched to Thai-Cambodian border provinces […]
NARATHIWAT, Jan 26 — A Thai local government defence volunteer was seriously wounded in a shooting attack in the southernmost province of Narathiwat’s Rangae district while riding a motorcycle to work. The victim, identified as Mudtorpa Jeteh, 31, a defence volunteer at the Rangae district office, was shot three times in the stomach by unidentified […]
PATTANI, Jan 22 — A village defence volunteer was shot dead by insurgents in this southern province early today, while in a separate incident a bomb exploded outside a telephone office in the provincial seat early Saturday as insurgents continued stepped up attacks since early this week, police said. Police said the 36-year-old village defence […]
CHANTABUREE, 25 November 2010 (NNT)-Local residents of Koh-Perd , Chantaburi Province, found a whale stranded at Klong-long (คลองลง) beach. Volunteers finally rescued it, dragging it back into deep water. Local residents who found the whale mistook it for a boat before noticing some movements. He immediately called for help from a group of volunteers and […]
Residents, soldiers, and volunteers yesterday busily cleaned up the economic town of Hat Yai as the devastating floodwaters subsided. The worst flooding engulfed Hat Yai earlier this week, leaving locals in dismay without any electricity or tap water. At press time, electricity had been restored in most parts of Hat Yai town. Running water, however, […]
New hope for HIV prevention ATLANTA : Further Aids vaccine studies will be carried out in Thailand after a recent large-scale clinical trial for the first time offered hope for HIV prevention by vaccination. Researchers are planning to conduct small-scale experiments as early as the middle of next year to carry on from the work […]
BANGKOK, Dec 15 (TNA) – Thailand is due to start its Influenza A(H1N1) nasal spray vaccine trials on the first group of volunteers this Friday, according to Dr Vichai Chokewiwat, chair of the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO). The vaccine trial for humans is ready after the problem of the vaccine’s stability was solved. The nasal […]
