THE Thai navy mounted a full-scale operation to rescue 16 crewmembers of a cargo ship at risk of sinking off the coast of Phuket today (Feb. 7), with all safely brought ashore, Amarin TV said. RADM Parach Rattanachaiyapan, the navy’s spokesperson, said the Maritime Security Command Region 3 was alerted of Panamanian-flagged cargo ship
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Two tourists lost in Koh Phangan forest rescued
A BIG search for two men holidaying in Thailand and getting lost in a forest at Koh Phangan late last night (Feb. 3) successfully found and rescued them with neither having been injured, Amarin TV said today. The island’s District Chief Mr. Paisit Thongjerm was alerted about the two tourists, Mr. Boris Sand Responton,
Read moreRescued scam centre victim warns of beatings, organ sales
THAI authorities crossed over to Cambodia’s Kong Kong province to receive 32 Thais who had escaped from scam centres in the neighbouring country and upon crossing back to Thailand one of them warned of terrible conditions including being beaten to death and sale of organs, PPTVHD36 said yesterday (Jan. 31). Ms. Kalaya Prasitphak, district
Read moreTortured Finnish girl rescued at Sa Kaeo
THAI Immigration police together with representatives from several agencies and the Finnish Embassy rescued an 11-year-old Finnish girl who was held captive and tortured at a house in Sa Kaeo province and arrested a Finnish couple for overstaying their visa, Amarin TV said this morning (Jan. 23). The team raided the house in Watthana
Read moreParaglider entrapped at Koh Larn power pole rescued
AN AMERICAN paraglider who got entangled atop a high-voltage power pole at Koh Larn, off Pattaya, was safely rescued after an hour-long power cut at the popular tourist island, Amarin TV said today (Jan. 12). At 2.30 p.m. Sawang Boriboon Foundation at Pattaya City was alerted of a foreign paraglider who while haphazardly landing
Read moreFisherman rescued after floating in the sea for days
A FISHMERMAN whose trawler sank was rescued after spending eight days floating in stormy seas clinging onto a tank lid, TV Channel 7 said this morning (Nov. 1). On Oct. 24 Mr. Yutthana (surname withheld), 58, took his trawler, Chok Neung, out to sea alone from Rayong City’s Phe subdistrict to catch squid near
Read moreForeigner rescued after falling into deep well
A GERMAN man fell into a 20-metre-deep well while mowing his lawn in Chonburi today (Oct. 9) and floated in there for 40 minutes until rescuers who were alerted by a neighbour pulled him up, Naewna newspaper said. At 11 a.m. Mr. Phichit Kiakkuthan, head of Sawang Rojanatham Foundation rescue unit, was informed of
Read moreBerserk foreigner rescued after crawling in a condo’s drainpipe
A BERSERK foreign man believed to be high on drugs was rescued after crawling naked in a large drainpipe behind a condo in Bangkok and sent to a hospital, Amarin TV said today (July 14). A police team from Bang Khun Thian station went to investigate after the juristic person of this condominium on
Read moreOver 20 baby macaques captured by wildlife traffickers rescued
A TOTAL of 25 pitiful baby macaques who had been captured by wildlife traffickers were rescued from a forest in Ratchaburi today (May 31) where they had been stuffed in blue net bags and hung from the base of a tree, TV Channel 7 and MNG Online said. Mr. Sirikoon Sangktaku, chief of Khao
Read moreThai-Swedish girl rescued from foreign dad who molested her
UDON THANI police rescued a 16-year-old Thai-Swedish girl from her foreign father after he had molested her several times with her mother revealing that he had raped her from the age of 13 till got pregnant and gave birth to this girl, Naewna newspaper said this morning (May 15). This northeastern province’s Deputy Governor
Read moreRescued scam workers almost clash with Karen fighters at Myawaddy
A GROUP of 275 foreign scam workers, mostly Ethiopians and other Africans, who were among thousands rescued from call centre complexes in Myawaddy township, just across from Thai border town Mae Sot, early February almost clashed with Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) fighters as they rose up to protest being held at a squalid,
Read more‘Escaping hell’: Myanmar scam centre workers plead to go home
By AFP and published by CNA Myawaddy – Hundreds of exhausted young men lie in an open-sided detention centre in a seedy Myanmar border town, sweating through thick tropical heat by day and prey to clouds of mosquitoes by night. They are among some 7,000 people from more than two dozen countries released from
Read moreNavy rescues 6 foreign kayakers off Koh Chang
THE THAI navy’s Marine Safety Centre at Koh Chang rescued six tourists after one kayak capsized and another almost followed suit today (Jan. 5) with all of them safe and only one suffering a minor injury, Naewna newspaper said. At around 12.30 p.m. a kayak four Czech tourists were paddling in the area between
Read more3 kidnapped Chinese students released, safe
THREE Chinese students who were tricked to deliver goods from Mae Sot town on the Thai-Myanmar border to Bangkok then kidnapped and taken to Myawaddy town just across the Moei river in Myanmar were released after part of the ransom was paid and rescued by police while walking in a forest, Amarin TV said
Read moreSwimmer lost for seven hours rescued off Bang Saray beach
A RUSSIAN woman who got lost after going for a swim from Na Jomtien beach yesterday morning (Sep. 25) was rescued by a fisherman seven hours later, Thai Rath newspaper said last evening. At 4.30 p.m. the owner of a squid fishing boat, Tai Jum, contacted Mr. Suphot Chomdokmai, 40, to come in his
Read moreTourists without life jackets rescued near Phi Phi Le island
A SPEEDBOAT TAKING a group of tourists on a tour off Krabi rescued three other tourists who were struggling in the sea without the support of life jackets after their long-tail boat had capsized near Phi Phi Le island, Amarin TV said this afternoon (July 14). Speedboat crew members had to swim to the
Read moreThai navy rescues ailing sailor for Indian ship
THE Thai navy quickly sent an emergency medical team on a boat to an Indian ship, a tanker named Sea Galaxy, and brought one of their sailors who had suffered stroke as it was passing through the Gulf of Thailand to Sattahip, Chonburi, for treatment last night, TV Channel 7 said early this morning
Read more5 Vietnamese fishermen rescued after floating in rough seas for days
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FIVE VIETNAMESE CREWMEMBERS of a trawler were rescued to safety after spending five days floating in stormy seas off Songkhla last night (Jan.28), said an official of the Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Centre. The five unnamed Vietnamese crewmembers who had departed Kien Giang city in Vietnam aboard the Vietnamese fishing
Read more30 Malaysian kayakers rescued after their canoes capsize in rough seas
ALL 30 Malaysian kayakers paddling from Langkawi island in Malaysia’s Kedah state to Satun province in Thailand were rescued by Thai authorities after their canoes capsized in choppy seas near the maritime border, Naewna said today (Aug. 29). Rescuers from Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Centre in Satun, the Naval Special Warfare Command (SEAL) and
Read more34 macaques rescued from smugglers in Rayong
A MOVE FORWARD MP-designate for Rayong province helped rescue 34 macaques from a house in his province after being tipped off by local residents that captured wild monkeys were locked up there, Naewna newspaper said this morning (June 10). At 6 p.m. yesterday Mr. Nakhonchai Khunnarong, the MP-designate, together with Mr. Somsak Kongsombatsuk, head
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