Artikel tagged “north east”

  • 75 tonnes of marijuana and Kratom destroyed in Nakhon Phanom

    75 tonnes of marijuana and Kratom destroyed in Nakhon Phanom

    8.4 tonnes of marijuana and 67.3 tonnes of kratom leaves have been destroyed by Nakhon Phanom provincial administration officials in a ceremony to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. The ceremony was held in an open field in front of the Muang district office. As part of the ceremony, officials also launched local campaigns against drug abuse. Officials say the burned drug were seized by various agencies in the province during the past 12 months

  • Seven injured after bus rolls over in Sisaket bus incident

    Seven injured after bus rolls over in Sisaket bus incident

    PHOTOS: หมวดทางหลวงภูสิงห์ Seven passengers have sustained injuries in a bus accident in Sisaket, far-east Thailand. Emergency responders were notified of the accident on No 24 Road in Sisaket yesterday

  • 5,000 Buriram citizens register for medical marijuana possession

    5,000 Buriram citizens register for medical marijuana possession

    by Tanakorn Sangiam The 90 day registration period for persons in possession of marijuana, without facing prosecution, end this Tuesday, May 21. 5,000+ persons in Buriram, north-east Thailand, have already registered their possession during this period. A community seminar on marijuana planting and management also took place yesterday to prepare Buriram province as a key manufacturer of medical marijuana.

  • 76 year old Swiss man found dead in his Khon Kaen home

    76 year old Swiss man found dead in his Khon Kaen home

    PHOTO: Srinakharin Khon Kaen Hospital where the man’s body has been taken for autopsy A 76 year old Swiss man has been found dead in his home in Khon Kaen’s city district. Police and a doctor from Srinakharin Khon Kaen Hospital headed to the house in Tambon Muang Kao after neighbours noticed a strong smell coming from the house

  • Elderly mother of murdered Thai woman is seeking help to bring her daughter’s body home

    Elderly mother of murdered Thai woman is seeking help to bring her daughter’s body home

    PHOTO: Matichononline The family of a Thai woman murdered in northern Portugal in March is now calling for assistance with the cost of repatriating the body back to Thailand. According to Portuguese media the woman, Natchaya Saranyaphat, was murdered on March 7 by another Thai woman. Natchaya’s head was found on the Leca da Palmeira beach, 300 kilometres north of Lisbon on the Atlantic coast.

  • Burglar drowns Pomeranian puppy before stealing computer and cash

    Burglar drowns Pomeranian puppy before stealing computer and cash

    A 21 year old Udon Thani tertiary student has returned from Songkran to find her Pomeranian puppy drowned in a water bin and her boyfriend’s laptop computer and cash stolen. Muang Udon Thani police were contacted lunchtime yesterday (Tuesday).

  • Pick-up driver slams into roadside steel shop, injures three

    Pick-up driver slams into roadside steel shop, injures three

    A drunk driver bounced off the side of a road in Ubon Ratchathani and then skidded side-ways into a roadside shop where young Songkran revellers were waiting quietly outside to greet passing vehicles. The crash ended up injuring three as the people waiting outside the shop scattered to get away from the black pick-up as it slammed into the shops. The incident happened outside the Phuwadet Steel Shop in the Don Mot Daeng district about 4.30pm on Saturday afternoon.

  • Moral and social media support pours in for leading medical marijuana researcher

    Moral and social media support pours in for leading medical marijuana researcher

    Khao Kwan Foundation president Decha Siripat has been receiving moral and social media support after a combined force of police, military and anti-narcotic officials raided the foundation’s offices in Suphan Buri last Wednesday, seizing about 200 marijuana plants, cannabis oil, dried marijuana seeds and marijuana powder.

  • Plastic waste fire smothers village in acrid smoke

    Plastic waste fire smothers village in acrid smoke

    by Prasit Tangprasert Firefighters are struggling to control a major fire at a plastic waste-separating factory in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Noen Sung district which began on Wednesday afternoon and is still not completely completely extinguished.

  • Husband shot after wife questions “mystery” phone call

    Husband shot after wife questions “mystery” phone call

    A man in Kalasin was seriously wounded with a gunshot to the head early this morning. Kalisan is in the north-east of Thailand. Daily News reports that the man’s wife says she was ‘furious’ after her husband refused to explain a mystery phone call during a romantic Valentine’s Day dinner