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Large-scale forest encroachment probed in Ranong
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 10/04/2026
» The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has filed a complaint against a group of investors and state officials accused of colluding to encroach on more than 3,000 rai of pristine rainforest in Ranong, causing damage estimated at over 200 million baht.
More than 200 arrested in nationwide crime crackdown
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 21/03/2025
» A nationwide crackdown on influential criminal figures and hitmen on Friday resulted in more than 200 arrests, with one suspect killed and 219 guns seized.
Myanmar releases 151 Thai prisoners, but not detained fishing crew
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 05/01/2025
» The four fishing vessel crew from Thailand who were detained in late November by Myanmar soldiers for allegedly invading Myanmar waters weren't among the 151 Thai prisoners released on Saturday.
DSI denies claim wanted fraudster's wife will be freed
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 12/03/2024
» The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has denied the wife of Sanga "Kofuk" Kungwan, who is believed to have fled an 18-billion-baht tax fraud case, is being released from detention so she can reunite with her husband abroad.
100kg of crystal meth seized in South
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 13/08/2022
» Police seized 100 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine in Pattani on Friday and arrested a suspect who reportedly said he had evaded arrest after taking part in an even bigger drug run four months earlier in Phatthalung.
Detained migrants infected
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 18/03/2021
» A police investigation is under way because 77 illegal migrants, most of them from Myanmar, appear to have contracted Covid-19 while being detained at an Immigration Bureau centre.
159 migrants to be deported via Ranong
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 28/01/2021
» More than 150 migrants from Myanmar will be deported through the immigration checkpoint in Ranong, according to the Immigration Bureau (IB).
CSD busts major drug network
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 19/06/2020
» The Crime Suppression Division (CSD) has uncovered a network of drug traffickers who allegedly used a gold shop to launder more than three billion baht of drug money, according to a source in the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB).
Police net 4 foreign fraud suspects
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 05/10/2019
» Four foreign criminal suspects connected to four separate cases of fraud, forgery and human trafficking have been arrested in an Immigration Bureau crackdown.
Ranong immigration chief transferred after Myanmar complaint
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 06/05/2019
» The Immigration chief of the southern province of Ranong was transferred to an inactive post in the Immigration Bureau after Myanmar accused Ranong immigration police of slow service for 200 Myanmar tourists.