Artikel tagged “south”

  • Mariam Live – the Trang baby dugong show

    Mariam Live – the Trang baby dugong show

    Mariam LIVE. Coming soon to your laptop or smartphone.

  • Weather warning for Thailand’s southern provinces

    Weather warning for Thailand’s southern provinces

    Thailand’s wet-season is forecast to be ‘wet’ in the south for the next few days. The Thai Meteorological Department has issued its 3rd consecutive weather warning in the past 24 hours to alert residents of heavy rain in the Southern provinces, strong winds and high seas. In the latest warning issued this morning at 6am, the TMD reported that, until June 27, the strong southwest monsoon will prevail over the Andaman Sea, the South and the Gulf of Thailand.

  • 73 Burmese and 4 ethnic Rohingya intercepted on their way to Malaysia

    73 Burmese and 4 ethnic Rohingya intercepted on their way to Malaysia

    PHOTO: Thai PBS Two passenger vans have been intercepted by police along the Asian Highway in Surat Thani, southern Thailand. There were 42 illegal Burmese migrant workers travelling in the two vans

  • Marium, the Trang dugong, washed up on Libong beach

    Marium, the Trang dugong, washed up on Libong beach

    Six month old dugong, Marium, was released back in the sea early yesterday after she washed up onto the beach for a second time in Trang’s Libong Island. Marium was found on Krabi’s Ao Tung Beach on April 29 after getting lost and separated from her mother.and taken to Trang to recover. Dugongs are classed as “vulnerable to extinction” and protected by law in Thailand

  • Health warning: Chikungunya cases up in Thailand’s southern province

    Health warning: Chikungunya cases up in Thailand’s southern province

    Thai health authorities are reporting 86 new cases of the Chikungunya virus in the last week alone. There have been 3,592 cases – nearly all in southern Thailand – this year. Here’s a few things to know about the Chikungunya virus… Chikungunya is a viral disease transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes. It causes fever and severe joint pain

  • Baby dugong ‘Marium’ being cared for in Trang

    Baby dugong ‘Marium’ being cared for in Trang

    PHOTOS: DMCR A baby dugong, which was found lost in Krabi two months ago, has been given the name ‘Marium’ and continues to be cared for at a dugong nursery in Trang. The baby dugong, found on a Krabi beach, was taken back to its home area in Trang, southern Thailand, on April 30. Read more about the wayward baby dugong’s discovery HERE .

  • 30 False killer whales sighted of Koh Tao – VIDEO

    30 False killer whales sighted of Koh Tao – VIDEO

    PHOTO: DMCR VIDEO: Ban’s Diving Resort (Official Fan Page) About 30 of false killer whales sighted off Koh Tao, Surat Thani over the weekend. The Department of Marine and Coast Resources reported that they were notified from Ban’s Diving tours operator on Koh Tao that that they were on a speedboat with tourists just off the coast of Koh Tao. About 30 false killer whales were sighted frolicking near the boat.

  • Ouch! Man falls from mango tree, ends up with metal rod through his testicles

    Ouch! Man falls from mango tree, ends up with metal rod through his testicles

    PHOTO: Daily News Daily News reports that an iron rod, sitting under a mango tre,e had gone right through a man’s testicles after he fell from a mango tree in Nakorn Si Thammarat yesterday. The poor man, Piyapong, was fighting extreme pain as friends tried to keep him in consciousness with smelling salts.

  • Nakhon Si Thammarat Police chief orders “shoot to kill” if necessary

    Nakhon Si Thammarat Police chief orders “shoot to kill” if necessary

    PHOTO: Daily News A police chief in Nakhon Si Thammarat has told his police to shoot to kill if necessary as the hunt for a Thai man continues. Thanakorn Saiyut was described as “armed and dangerous” by Pol Col Suthat Songsayom of the Chawang police who said he wanted the man dead or alive. Nakhon Si Thammarat is just south of Surat Thani

  • 15 car convoy arrested in Songkhla for petrol smuggling

    15 car convoy arrested in Songkhla for petrol smuggling

    Soldiers and customs officials have stopped and searched 15 vehicles heading north from Malaysia into Thailand smuggling petrol and diesel. Officials seized 5,100 litres of petrol and diesel allegedly being smuggled into Songkhla’s Sadao district this morning at the Tha Khoi-Padang Bezar border crossing from Malaysia.