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Fisherman finds 'whale gold'
Gary Boyle, Published on 23/10/2019
» SURAT THANI: A local fisherman has asked authorities to help verify whether a large lump of material he found on an island beach is indeed ambergris and worth about 10 million baht.
Major drug gang 'boss' busted on Samui
Gary Boyle, Published on 23/09/2019
» SURAT THANI: A man nicknamed "the boss", believed by authorities to be a major drug dealer based on Koh Samui, has been arrested after being hunted for a year.
TEST YOURSELF: A little lunch
Gary Boyle, Published on 23/08/2019
» Schools struggle to give students proper nutrition
Abandoned motorcycles prompt Hua Hin bomb alert
Gary Boyle, Published on 05/08/2019
» Three motorcycles with southern licence plates abandoned at Hua Hin train station prompted a bomb alert on Sunday.
Chinese man gets 25½ years for murder
Gary Boyle, Published on 26/07/2019
» A young Chinese man has been sentenced to 25 years and six months in prison for the murder of a 70-year-old Thai woman who was strangled in a Bangkok condominium in February this year.
Nation braces for 'extremely heavy' rain
Gary Boyle, Published on 17/07/2019
» Parts of the South, the East, the Central Plains and Bangkok and surrounding provinces are being warned of “heavy” and “extremely heavy” rain from Wednesday until Friday.
Thailand wants 5 more international airports
Gary Boyle, Published on 17/07/2019
» The meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) in Phuket next week marks a new phase in aviation development in Thailand, with authorities planning to ask the UN agency to endorse five more international airports.
Officer killed, police sting fails
Gary Boyle, Published on 28/06/2019
» SURAT THANI: A drug trafficker shot a policeman, drove a car over him and fled to safety as a sting operation went horribly wrong in Ban Ta Khun district on Thursday night.
SRT declares war on budget airlines
Gary Boyle, Published on 13/06/2019
» The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) wants to win back customers from low-cost airlines with electric, air-conditioned trains, the state enterprise said on Wednesday.
Rare false killer whales seen near Koh Tao
Gary Boyle, Published on 02/06/2019
» SURAT THANI: A pod of about 30 false killer whales -- a kind of large oceanic dolphin -- have been sighted near Koh Tao island in Ko Phangan district of this southern province, governor Wichawut Jinto said on Sunday.