Three stranded flood victims rescued in Nan
Border patrol officers braved strong currents from an overflowing creek to rescue a family of three stranded in their heavily-flooded house in Pua district of Thailand’s northern province of Nan today.
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Border patrol officers braved strong currents from an overflowing creek to rescue a family of three stranded in their heavily-flooded house in Pua district of Thailand’s northern province of Nan today.
The Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA) is preparing for a major operational overhaul, as it transitions to electric buses, with a plan to lease 1,520 electric vehicles (EVs) over seven years under a 14.9-billion-baht contract with Nakhonchai Air Co, Ltd.
The Ministry of Tourism and Sports is gearing up for the launch, tentatively on October 1, of the first phase of the ‘Thai Tiew Thai Plus’ program, aimed at boosting domestic tourism.
The Cabinet has approved an extension and budget increase for the Khlong Phlo reservoir construction project in Rayong province, to cover rising land compensation costs and accelerate construction. The project is aimed at securing water supplies for over 4,800 hectares of agricultural land and supporting the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).
Thai immigration police in the northeastern province of Nong Khai seized 13 computer notebooks, 19 smart phones and four Wi-Fi boosters after they stopped a car and arrested four Chinese nationals and a Thai driver at an intersection in Muang district on Tuesday evening.
A Hat Yai traffic police officer has countered claims by a group of Malaysian bikers who criticised the way they were stopped and fined, insisting that his handling of the incident was in accordance with Thai traffic laws.
Thailand’s tourism industry is experiencing a slowdown, mainly due to the impacts of the prolonged conflict in the Middle East, resulting in a 3.2% drop in arrivals in the first quarter of the year and a 2.91% drop in the first eight months of the year, compared with the same periods last year, according to Krungthai COMPASS, the research arm of Krung Thai Bank, and the Ministry of Tourism and Sports.
Heavy downpours triggered flash floods, river overflows and landslides across several districts of the northern Thai province of Nan early Wednesday morning, rendering multiple roads and bridges impassable and inundating homes.
Two more victims of the deadly Ladprao pub fire on July 12 have died, bringing the death toll to 41, according to the Erawan Centre, the medical service centre of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.
Six Thai agricultural workers were injured when old ordnance left underground detonated in an agricultural area in Metula, northern Israel, on Tuesday.
Park rangers and veterinarians at Salak Phra Wildlife Sanctuary in Kanchanaburi are relieved to have cornered an injured elephant and treated an infected wound on its left hind leg using hypodermic darts fired from a remote injection rifle.
The White House on Monday lashed out at a CNN reporter after she asked a question about President Donald Trump's relationship with an aide, in the latest in a series of attacks on female journalists.
A man apparently shot himself dead with a rented handgun outside a shooting range in Bang Bua Thong district of Nonthaburi today.
Thailand has lashed out at Cambodia for accusing it of trying to act as an “ASEAN police force”, saying that it has never sought such a role and has no intention of interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.
Seven suspects, including three officials, have been arrested in a joint operation codenamed ‘Clean up the City’ in a major crackdown in Bangkok on an organised network specialising in the issuance of fake pink ID cards to Thai-born children of migrant workers.
Ministry of Labour will propose four draft labour-related bills to the Cabinet aimed at providing greater protection for maritime workers and freelancers who accept assignments to work from home, as well as ensuring equal rights for spouses of state enterprise workers.