WHILE the deadly train-bus collision at Rama 9 – Asoke-Phetchaburi intersection last Saturday (May 16) has improved traffic behaviour at this site, violations continue with 58 road users being prosecuted for obstructing traffic yesterday (May 22), Amarin TV said today. This TV station’s online news team surveyed Bangkok’s high-risk level crossings starting with this
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Female student hit by motorcyclist at zebra crossing
GOING viral online is a video clip showing a motorcyclist hitting a female student at a pedestrian crossing on Ekachai road in Bang Khun Thian district seriously injuring her, Naewna newspaper said this evening (Feb. 4). The surveillance camera clip shows two students crossing the road and while other vehicles slowed down, this motorcycle
Read moreThais nabbed while crossing over to take up gambling jobs in Cambodia
A TEAM of soldiers patrolling the Thai-Cambodian border at Aranyaprathet district, Sa Kaeo province, rounded up a group of eight Thais just as they were walking along a forest path to sneak into Khmer border town Poipet where jobs running gambling websites awaited them, Amarin TV said this evening (Oct. 13). Of the eight
Read moreBorder villagers oppose reopening checkpoints
AMID discussions on reopening some Thai-Cambodian checkpoints Thai border villagers in Surin said they disagree with doing so and urged the new government headed by Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to consider whether this is appropriate, Amarin TV said this morning (Sep. 12). Reporters of this TV station went to Ban Khao To, Bak Dai
Read moreForeign man hit, killed by car in Pattaya
AN UNIDENTIFIED foreign man died after being hit by a car while crossing a road in Pattaya soon after midnight last night (Dec. 5) with the driver blaming him for suddenly jumping in front of his vehicle, TV Channel 7 said. The accident occurred at 12.16 a.m. on the inbound side of Sukhumvit road
Read moreYoung woman dies after being hit by bus at zebra crossing
AT 6.10 a.m. this morning (Mar. 12) a young woman was severely injured and later died after being hit by a bus at a pedestrian crossing in Phra Nakhon district, TV Channel 7 said. The fatal accident occurred at Banglamphu intersection where Samsen and Phra Sumen roads intersect with the former heading towards Chakrabongse
Read moreVietnamese workers caught after sneaking across from Malaysia
A GROUP of 13 Vietnamese men and women who had sneaked across the border from Malaysia were arrested this afternoon (Dec. 16) at an abandoned house in Narathiwat province, Thai Rath newspaper reported. Upon being alerted by Mr. Narong Awasimae, a village headman in Pase Mat sub-district, Su-ngai Kolok district, that some foreign workers were
Read moreDoctor points to illegal border crossings at Thai-Cambodian border
WITH THE whole country worried about Covid-19 cases rising after some Thais sneaked back from Myanmar’s Tachileik border town to Mae Sai district in Chiang Rai province, the owner of the popular Doctor Panda Lab webpage today (Dec. 11) drew attention to illegal border crossings at eastern Chanthaburi province, Sanook.com reported. Mr. Pakphum Dejhassadin, a
Read more4 Thai men, 2 Myanmar women caught sneaking into Mae Sot
SOLDIERS from the 4th Infantry Regiment who are keeping a tight control of the Thai-Myanmar border at Mae Sot district of Tak province today (Dec. 5) caught four Thai men and two Myanmar women just as they had slipped through the border, Amarin TV reported this evening. While patrolling Tha Sai Luat sub-district of this
Read more8 caught sneaking into Chiang Rai as 2 new Covid-19 cases emerge
EIGHT Thais were arrested in Chiang Rai province today (Nov. 30) just as they were sneaking back home from Myanmar via natural routes soon after two Thai women who are friends of a superspreader in Chiang Mai also tested positive for Covid-19, Amarin TV reported. All eight suspects were working at Myanmar’s Tachileik district, just
Read more16 Thais caught slipping across the border from Myanmar
A TEAM of soldiers, policemen and village guards patrolling the Thai-Myanmar border in Tak province caught 16 Thai online casino workers who had illegally come across the border and were hiding in the jungle at 5 a.m. this morning (Nov. 5), Thai Rath newspaper reported. Mr. Sompong Fungthaweewong, Phop Phra district chief, had sent the
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