THREE forest rangers who disappeared while patrolling mountain forests to suppress illegal gold mining in Kanchanaburi yesterday (Aug. 11) have been found and are being airlifted to safety, MGR Online and TV Channel 7 said today. This morning Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Suchart Chomklin sent a helicopter to extensively search for the
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500 nominee companies uncovered in Krabi raid
KRABI police raided an accounting company in this southern coastal province where they found that this same address was used to register six nominee companies with there being a large, interconnected network that has set up over 500 such companies in three southern provinces, Naewna newspaper said today (April 23). In exposing this nominee
Read moreNewborn baby found abandoned in a paper bag
POLICE and rescue workers rushed to an alley in Pattani City this morning (Sep. 23) after being alerted that a newborn baby girl was found abandoned in a paper bag in front of a house, TV Channel 7 said. Upon arrival they found that the baby with the umbilical cord still attached was wrapped
Read moreOver a 1,000-year-old pagoda unearthed in Phayao
VILLAGERS and monks in northern Phayao city district have unearthed over a thousand-year-old seven-tiered pagoda in rice fields expropriated for the construction of Den Chai-Chiang Rai-Chiang Khong double-track railway, Naewna newspaper said today (March 24). This ancient temple, located near Ban Chedi Ngam community where the construction team is building the railway line, has
Read moreChinese actor found in Myawaddy but was not kidnapped
THAI security agencies said at 12.50 p.m. today (Jan. 7) that a Chinese actor who disappeared after flying to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport from Shanghai has been found in Myanmar and the Border Guard Force said he was not kidnapped, Naewna newspaper said. The actor would likely be handed over at around 2 p.m. today
Read moreBody of Chinese tourist who drowned in the sea off Phuket found
PHUKET rescuers today (July 29) found the body of a Chinese tourist who drowned in the sea after ignoring a red flag warning four days ago, Thai Rath newspaper. The body of Mr. Qin Yuen, 27, was sent to Vachira Phuket Hospital with his relatives asked to come and identify him then arrange a
Read moreDecomposed body of a woman found, suspected to be kidnapped Chinese student
A DECOMPOSED body of a woman has been found at a garbage dump in Chachoengsao province with police checking whether this is a missing Chinese student who was earlier kidnapped for ransom in Bang Rak area of Bangkok,TV Channel 7 and Thai Rath newspaper said this afternoon (July 13). The missing Chinese woman was
Read moreTrump becomes first former US president to be convicted of felony crimes
By AP and published by Yahoo!News New York – Former US President Donald Trump on Thursday (May 30) was found guilty on all 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money trial. It was the first time a former US president was ever tried or convicted in a criminal case, and was the first
Read moreThai woman missing in Switzerland found: Embassy
THE Thai embassy in Switzerland has been informed by the family of a Thai woman missing in Switzerland that she has now been found, Naewna newspaper and Mcot said this morning (May 25). Ms. Nantiwa “Noon” Saejiw, who is travelling on a Swedish passport and went Switzerland with her foreign boyfriend, had not contacted
Read moreMysterious tunnel found in Kanchanaburi, likely built during WWII
RESIDENTS of Kanachanaburi’s Sangkhla Buri district have discovered a mysterious tunnel that appears to have been built as a bomb shelter during World War II, Naewna newspaper said today (Mar. 31). Mr. Manchai Watthanakaran and Mr. Sarawut Saisangsiriphong, residents of this district, took reporters to have a look at the tunnel believed to have
Read moreWreckage of T-28 plane to be retrieved from Mekong river
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE AIR FORCE PLANS to retrieve the wreckage of a US-built T-28 Trojan light attack plane from the now-shallow Mekong river. The wreckage of the North American Aviation T-28 turboprop plane which had nosedived and crashed into the international river in Thabor district of Nong Khai during the Vietnam War
Read moreWreckage of T-28 light attack aircraft retrieved from Mekong river
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SOME PARTS OF THE wreckage of a US-built T-28 Trojan aircraft were inadvertently found by villagers and then retrieved by police from Mekong river in Nong Khai today (Jan.23). The remains of the North American Aviation T-28 Trojan light attack aircraft were retrieved by the Explosive Ordnance Disposal police from
Read moreDismembered body part found at Koh Phangan garbage dump
IN A GRISLY discovery at a Koh Phangan rubbish dump today (Aug. 3) a body part was found in a blue plastic bag with police suspecting it belonged to a foreign man who had been killed and his body cut up and disposed not more than 48 hours ago, Amarin TV said. Pol. Col.
Read moreForeign tourist finds missing sailor’s backpack off Koh Tao beach
A TOURIST from Norway found the backpack of one of the sailors missing after the HTMS 442 Sukhothai sank in the Gulf of Thailand last Sunday off Koh Tao beach today (Dec. 24), Workpointtoday.com said. The unidentified tourist handed over the backpack to Pol. Lt. Thanawat Sukkhata, deputy head for investigation at Koh Tao
Read moreBody of French tourist lost in jungle for 5 days found
A BIG search in a Surat Thani jungle for a Frenchman missing for five days ended this afternoon (Nov. 17) after his body was found down a steep cliff by a large party of rescuers, Matichon newspaper said. Mr. Gollino Cyrit Tizzlano, around 30 years of age, had been staying at Khao Sok Holiday
Read moreRemains of Canadian man found at Pattaya grass field
PATTAYA police are investigating the mysterious death of a Canadian man whose remains were found in a grass field in the middle of this seaside city today (July 15), TV Channel 7 said. Upon being alerted by a hotel housekeeper that she had stumbled upon a dead body in the grass field behind Leelawadee
Read moreMissing German woman found by a creek in national park forest
A LARGE search team in Phuket found the elderly German woman tourist missing for seven days lying by a creek in a forest within Sirinat National Park today (May, 16), Thai Rath newspaper and Amarin TV said. Ms. Barbara Elisabeth Monika Glag Lange, 76, who is said to be suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and disappeared
Read moreIndonesia: Archaeologists find world’s oldest animal cave painting
By BBC ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered the world’s oldest known animal cave painting in Indonesia – a wild pig – believed to be drawn 45,500 years ago. Painted using dark red ochre pigment, the life-sized picture of the Sulawesi warty pig appears to be part of a narrative scene. The picture was found in the Leang
Read moreBig hunt for meteorites in Chiang Mai
VILLAGERS at Chiang Mai’s Mae Suek subdistrict are happily searching for meteorites today (Sept. 25) after rumours of some of them having found and secretly kept a football-size one last month was confirmed to be true, Khaosod newspaper reported. Mr. Inthara Nuknaen, Mae Suk subdistrict chief, revealed that some villagers did find a large meteorite
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