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Chumphon expects tourism boost after Thai AirAsia landing
Amnart Thongdee, Published on 25/03/2018
» CHUMPHON: The Tourism Council of Chumphon welcomed the maiden flight of Thai AirAsia into the province on Sunday, expressing hope that it could increase the number of tourists here.
Two arrested delivering 400,000 meth pills to South
Amnart Thongdee, Published on 13/06/2016
» CHUMPHON - Two men were arrested with 400,000 methamphetamine pills at a police checkpoint on Monday, police said.
2 arrested, B40m in meth seized in Chumphon
Amnart Thongdee, Published on 05/04/2016
» CHUMPHON -- Police seized more than 200,000 methamphetamine pills hidden in a pickup truck's fuel tank and arrested two suspected drug couriers.
Chumphon police arrest 2 in big drug bust
Amnart Thongdee, Published on 29/02/2016
» CHUMPHON -- Police on Monday arrested two men with 296,000 methamphetamine pills at a checkpoint in Muang district.
Chumphon's ironwood forest giants now protected
News, Amnart Thongdee, Published on 17/01/2016
» Chumphon’s largest takien timberland has stood strong as iron over the centuries, bearing the brunt of the devastating Typhoon Gay which swept through the Gulf of Thailand in 1989 and resisting the ever-persistent threat of human encroachment.
5 arrested, speed pills worth B110m seized
Amnart Thongdee, Published on 17/11/2015
» Five members of a drug gang have been arrested in Chumphon and 366,000 speed pills hidden in a second vehicle seized in Prachuap Khiri Khan after a long car chase, police said on Tuesday.
Pangolin smuggler caught by car crash
Amnart Thongdee, Published on 09/09/2014
» CHUMPHON — Chumphon police rescued 113 pangolins, a protected wildlife species, from the trunk of a SUV after driver crashed it on Highway 41 in Lang Suan district on Tuesday.
Bengal cub trafficker caught
Amnart Thongdee, Published on 06/06/2014
» CHUMPHON - Police and soldiers on Friday arrested a woman with three baby Bengal tigers and a 31.5-kilogramme leopard carcass in Pathiu district of this southern province on Friday.
Harvesting treetop gold
News, Amnart Thongdee, Published on 25/05/2013
» Monkeys scrambling to the tops of tall palm trees to collect coconuts, or performing tricks to help their masters earn a living, are a popular tourist attraction in the southern provinces.
Birds' nests bring profit and pillage
News, Amnart Thongdee, Published on 13/04/2013
» Red nests are like a Bentley and do not come cheap, and the swiftlets that produce them sacrifice more than their saliva to keep the wheels turning in the multi-billion-baht bird's nest trade.