A CRACKDOWN on shops illegally selling balloons filled with laughing gas, that is nitrous oxide, in Khao San road area today (Feb. 2) netted 13 suspects and six equipment used to produce them for sale worth around 1 million baht, TV Channel 7 said this evening. A Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) police team together
Day: February 2, 2024
Blind man run over by train after getting off at the wrong station
A VISUALLY IMPAIRED man died upon being hit by a train after mistakenly getting off at the wrong station during his journey from Nakhon Si Thammarat in the south to Nakhon Pathom in the central region, Matichon newspaper said this afternoon (Feb. 2). A team from Ban Pong police station, Ratchaburi province which is
Read moreHouse panel digs into draft-dodging kickback scandals
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE HOUSE ARMED SERVICES Committee has quietly launched an in-depth investigation into unsolved scandals surrounding alleged payoffs over the annual army drafting procedures throughout the country. House committee chair Wiroj Lakkhanaadisorn confirmed today (Feb.2) some people have volunteered to help the House panel by trying to collect facts and figures
Read moreTrio of US aircraft carriers conclude drill on upper skirts of South China Sea
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN as a rare maritime phenomenon, a trio of the United States’ aircraft carriers have today (Feb.2) concluded a naval exercise in waters on the upper edges of the tension-ridden South China Sea. The US navy’s aircraft carriers USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) and
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