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  • Day Five: Total three deaths in Phuket – ‘Seven Days of Danger’ 

    Day Five: Total three deaths in Phuket – ‘Seven Days of Danger’ 

    As reports are tallied for the fifth full day (April 15) of the ‘Seven Days of Danger’ road and marine safety campaign, there were a total of 4 road accidents, including 3 injuries and 1 death on the day. The dead woman was 20 year old Kunwaree Hemmin who has died at the scene after a motorbike accident in Pakhlok at 4 pm yesterday. She tried to overtake another vehicle at high speed when she collided with a minivan coming in the opposite direction, according to police.

  • Princess Chulabhorn recovers after cataract surgery and back pain treatment

    Princess Chulabhorn recovers after cataract surgery and back pain treatment

    The Palace is reporting that HRH Princess Chulabhorn is recovering satisfactorily at Ramathibodi Hospital after cataract surgery and treatment for back pain. The medical team at the hospital report that the Princess’s back pain had eased satisfactorily so that medication will now be taken orally, instead of intravenously, until April 30.

  • Police officer and wanted insurgent shot in Songkhla clash

    Police officer and wanted insurgent shot in Songkhla clash

    One policeman has been injured along with an alleged insurgent when troops and southern insurgents clashed in Songkhla’s Sabayoi district today. The exchange of gunfire happened at 10:30am this morning when troops and police reportedly searched for suspects in Ban Long Khuan village in Tambon Khuha. The team received a tipoff that December 26’s Khuan Niang district bombing suspects might have been hiding in the village.

  • UPDATE: 2 confirmed dead, 20 injured in Central World Bangkok fire

    UPDATE: 2 confirmed dead, 20 injured in Central World Bangkok fire

    The Erawan Medical Centre has confirmed that two people were killed and another 20 injured in last evening’s fire at Centara Grand Hotel and CentralWorld Shopping Centre at Bangkok’s Ratchaprasong Intersection. One person was found dead at the scene (a staff member who jumped out of a fourth storey window), whilst the other fatality, identified as 50 year old Arthit Khamsai, was pronounced dead at Chulalongkorn Hospital

  • The ‘Fun Police’ crackdown on posting ‘lewd’ Songkran pics and video

    The ‘Fun Police’ crackdown on posting ‘lewd’ Songkran pics and video

    The Thai police have become Thailand’s fun police today as they warn Songkran revellers against posting photos of scantily clad people, or ‘invitations’ to consume alcohol’… pretty much everything you see during the madness of Songkran festivities in the main tourist hot spots. “No photos, video clips of live broadcasts of nudity, lewd acts or inviting consumption of alcohol should be published on Thai social media during Songkran.” Such actions are illegal and punishable with a fine and/or a jail term, the police said yesterday.

  • Chinese tour companies in Phuket being checked

    Chinese tour companies in Phuket being checked

    Officers have made random checks on tour companies in Phuket today after receiving complaints.

  • Motorcyclist survives being run over at traffic light in Nakhon Nayok – VIDEO

    Motorcyclist survives being run over at traffic light in Nakhon Nayok – VIDEO

    VIDEO: Baan Na Police A motorbike driver has survived after a truck trailer ran over him and his motorbike at traffic lights in Nakhon Nayok, just north-east of Bangkok, yesterday. Daily News reports that the motorbike driver had stopped at the traffic light, waling just in front of the truck. The truck driver apparently was unable to see the motorbike.

  • Counting down PM’s 7 day deadline in Chiang Mai – so far no change

    Counting down PM’s 7 day deadline in Chiang Mai – so far no change

    by Piyaporn Wongruang, Tim Newton Last week PM Prayut Chan-o-cha issued an order to end the haze crisis in the North within seven days and declared the situation part of the national agenda. Two days to go and there is still no respite of the hazardous levels of smoke and smog besetting the northern capital and adjacent provinces. The PM met with nine provincial governors and authorities directly involved with the smog problem last Tuesday ordering the problem be solved in 7 days.

  • Bangkok officials promise to move the communication cabling underground, again

    Bangkok officials promise to move the communication cabling underground, again

    The BMA (Bangkok Metropolitan Authority) says it will again attempt to clear the ubiquitous tangled mess of cables that hang over BKK streets. But this time they are saying they are going to put the communication cabling underground only, not the power supply.

  • Officials say Songkran can still go ahead on Khaosan Road this year

    Officials say Songkran can still go ahead on Khaosan Road this year

    Today the Bangkok Post did a story headlined ‘No Songkran on Khaosan Road this year’ . What?! No Songkran at Thailand’s most popular water splashing location