PHRA NAKHON SI AYUTTHAYA, Sept 13 – Thailand’s central province of Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya on Tuesday was preparing for flooding likely to hit the provincial seat while overflowing waters of the Chao Phraya River flooded communities in upriver in Nakhon Sawan. To prevent floodwater from flowing into Ayutthaya municipality’s business district and transport routes, […]
SONGKHLA, Sept 8 – Three Cambodian industrial workers were killed this morning by flying machine parts in a latex processing factory. The victims, two men and one woman, were migrant workers with legal work permits, identified as Zat In, 21, Chanhuan Seng, 26, and Sarit Sen, 26. Read more: MCOT
Three factory workers who decided to meet at a motel in Sriracha for the purposes of sex and drug talking have been arrested by local Police. An informant provided information to Police that two women and their male work colleague had arranged to meet at the appropriately named Banana Inn Motel. Read more: Pattaya One
A politician in India’s central state of Chhattisgarh says at least seven Congress Party workers were killed when Maoist rebels attacked his convoy. Chhattisgarh Congress Party leader Nand Kumar Patel told reporters Wednesday that his convoy of some 20 vehicles was attacked in a roadside explosion that missed his vehicle but destroyed those behind him. […]
TAK, 15 July 2011 (NNT) – A number of Myanmar citizens have been arrested in Tak province after entering Thailand with the intention to find jobs and take advantage of the new government’s wage hike policy to 300 THB a day. On the occasion of Buddhist Lent this year, tens of thousands of people from […]
Pattani – Two Buddhist brothers were killed in a drive-by shooting in this southern border province Wednesday morning. Police said the two brothers were construction workers and were riding their motorcycle to work in Pattani downtown when two muslim insurgents on a motorcycle caught up and opened fire at them. Read more: The Nation
Chon Buri – When a protest by Cambodian workers at a chicken slaughter factory in Chon Buri’s Nong Yai district on Sunday got out of control, police reinforcements were brought in and four of their cars were damaged. The Cambodians were angry that Thai workers who injured a number of Cambodians in an earlier fistfight […]
The Cambodian government has approved a plan to send 8,000 Cambodians to work in Thailand under a bilateral agreement. The first batch of 113 Cambodian workers entered Thailand yesterday in the hope of getting paid a minimum wage of Bt300 per day as promised by the Pheu Thai-led government. At the checkpoint in front of […]
