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Security officials in 14 districts of the southernmost province of Narathiwat have been put on high alert after suspected militants attacked a tambon defence volunteer’s base in Ra-ngae district and detonated several home-made bombs targeting power poles and bridges in four districts on Friday night. Four motorcyclists and pillion riders were injured by bomb shrapnel
Drunk driving is blamed as the main cause of most road accidents in the past two days, resulting in 98 fatalities and 1,024 injured from 990 road accidents across the country, Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisit told a press conference today. In his capacity as head of the Centre for the Prevention and Reduction of Road
Nine motorists were placed on parole and strapped with ankle monitors for 15 days by the court on Thursday after they were found guilty of drunk driving, said Mr Prasarn Mahaleetrakul, director-general of the Probation Department, today. The nine convicted drunk drivers were among 313 offenders who were caught for drunk driving on the first
Indonesia on Thursday raised the danger alert level for an erupting volcano that sparked a killer tsunami at the weekend, after previously warning that fresh activity at the crater threatened to trigger another deadly wave. Authorities also widened a no-go zone around rumbling Anak Krakatoa to five kilometres (three miles) — up from a previous
A security red alert was declared today in the southern province of Songkhla, especially in Hat Yai commercial district popular with Malaysian tourists, after three more improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were found on Samila beach following two blasts that damaged one of its famous beach-side statues. The home-made bombs were later destroyed by police bomb
Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan has been cleared of any wrongdoings after the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) ruled today that all the 22 expensive designer wristwatches which he was seen wearing for a period of time on various occasions were borrowed from a close friend and were not parts of the assets he was required
Forty-two people were killed and 432 others injured on the first day of the 7-day ”New Year’s Danger Watch” period on Thursday, Tourism and Sports Minister Veerasak Kowsurat told a press conference today. He said that 420 road accidents were reported across the country on Thursday, with the highest rate – 19 cases each in
The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has landed itself in hot waters with its ruling that clears Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan in a scandal in which he was accused of failing to declare the more than 20 expensive wristwatches he was seen wearing on different occasions. An anti-graft crusader and a social activist today
A top security official said today that southern militants might try to expand their terrorism activities outside the three southernmost provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat. National Security Council secretary-general Gen Wallop Raksanoh said today wcthat the two home-made bombs used to attack the Golden Mermaid sculpture and the Noo-Maew statue on the Samila beach
Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha led members of his Cabinet and military top brass for a ritual New Year’s call on Privy Council President Gen Prem Tinsulanonda on Thursday and received not only blessing from the elder statesman but also a very valuable piece of advice. “You should treat your critics as friends,” the 98-year-old
Export of Thai Hom Mali (fragrant) rice for the year 2019 is expected to fall by about 20 percent to roughly one million tonnes from this year’s 1.2-1.3 million tonnes as foreign buyers have increasingly shifted to similar grains from Vietnam and Cambodia which are cheaper. Chukiart Opaswong, honorary president of the Thai Rice Exporters
In a record marathon verdict reading which took 15 hours from 8 am on Tuesday until 1 am today with lunch and dinner breaks, the Min Buri provincial court acquitted the former rector of King Mongkut Institute of Technology, Lat Krabang campus, but sentenced 11 others to jail terms from over four to over 200
Authorities are probing two explosions that rocked the popular Samila beach of the southern province of Songkhla late Wednesday night, shattering the tail section of the famous Golden Mermaid. No one was injured by the blasts which took place almost simultaneously at about 9.30 pm as the beach was normally deserted late at night. The
The bodies of two elderly South Korean golfers who went missing after their golf cart fell into the Nan river in the northern province of Nan following an accident on a floating platform on Tuesday have been found. The body of 68-year old Mr Jun Yong Sung was found floating at a spot about three
The Election Commission has finally decided to set the limits of campaign spending for political parties and individual candidates in the upcoming election at 35 million baht and 1.5 million baht each respectively. EC secretary-general Pol Col Charoongwit Poomma said today the campaign spending limits and other election-related issues were incorporated in the EC’s regulation
National Anti-Corruption Commission secretary-general Worawit Sookboon was on Wednesday evening booed by a large group of reporters who were disappointed by his refusal to discuss the controversial issue regarding Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan’s expensive wristwatches until the next day. Emerging from a meeting at about 6.30 pm, he told the reporters who had been
