A NAVY unit accompanied by Pha Mueang Task Force rangers intercepted a boat on Mekong river flowing through the Golden Triangle and seized around 6.4 million methamphetamine pills last night (Feb. 19), Naewna newspaper said today. Capt. Pakorn Maniam, chief of operations and news department, sent assault boats to patrol Ruak and Mekong rivers
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Thai star’s Mekong charity swim raises 56m baht for 2 hospitals
THAI singer, actor and footballer Phakin Khamwilaisak, nicknamed Tono, successfully completed his “One Man and the River” 15-kilometre charity swim to and fro Mekong river today (Oct. 22) raising 56 million baht in donations for a Thai and a Laotian hospital, Naewna newspaper said. At noon today when Tono and his team reached Wat
Read more3 drug runners arrested on Mekong river bank
ACTING on a tip-off Nong Khai police arrested three drug traffickers moments after they had collected sacks packed with 400,000 tablets of methamphetamine, worth 12 million baht, that a boat from Laos had dropped off on the Thai bank of Mekong river, Matichon newspaper said this evening (Sept. 8). Pol. Maj. Gen. Puttipong Musikul,
Read moreFriends of actress who fell into the river to be quizzed
NONTHABURI police have called five friends of actress Pataratida Patcharawirapong, or Tangmo Nida, for questioning today (Feb. 25) after she fell off a speedboat into the Chao Phraya river under Rama 7 bridge last night with rescuers and divers still searching for her, Sanook.com said. Her friends reported at 10.40 p.m. that she had
Read moreHigh tide warning for Bangkok, 3 neighbouring provinces
THE Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation issued a warning today (Feb. 13) that Bangkok and three neighbouring provinces, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani and Samut Prakan, will be affected by high tides causing the Chao Phraya river to rise, TV Channel 7 said. The department was notified by the Office of the National Water Resources and
Read moreMekong River levels ‘slightly’ rise amid conflicting regional data
By Reuters Staff, published by Todayonline.com THE inter-governmental Mekong River Commission (MRC) said today (Feb. 22) that levels on the vital waterway have “slightly” increased and it would look into why its outflow data from Chinese dams upstream differed from data later given by Beijing. Whether or not China’s 11 dams are harming downstream nations
Read moreNaked woman covered with plastic bags found floating down the river
THE NAKED BODY of a fair Asian woman covered with two plastic bags was found lodged at the Chao Phraya river bank near Tha Din Daeng ferry pier at 8 a.m. this morning (Sept. 1) after floating down from the direction of Memorial Bridge, Thai Rath newspaper reported. Pol. Maj. Teerawat Kerdjongrak, an investigator at
Read moreTwo boys killed by electric shock in Mekong River
By Thai Newsroom Reporters TWO BOYS WERE ELECTROCUTED and drowned as they were swimming in Mekong River in Chiang Rai yesterday (June 23), police said. The 9-year-old and 11-year-old were among five boys swimming in the ebbing river in Huay Ian village of Wiang Kaen district of the northern province when they were electrocuted in
Read moreLaotian boatmen toss bagful of speed pills on Thai side and flee
A LAOTIAN boat quickly sped away after flinging a sackful of methamphetamine (speed) pills into the bushes near a pier at Mekong river in upper northeastern Mukdahan City which when seized yielded a total of 74,132 tablets of this drug, Naewna newspaper reported today (June 21, 2020). An eagle-eyed local man who saw the whole
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