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Drug traffickers caught, million 'ya ba' pills seized
Amnart Thongdee, Published on 24/08/2016
» CHUMPHON - One million methamphetamine pills were found secreted in several concealed compartments when police stopped and searched a pickup truck in Pathiu district on Tuesday.
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.
448kg of ganja seized, 2 arrested
Amnart Thongdee, Published on 10/02/2016
» CHUMPHON -- Two men were arrested on Tuesday after police pulled over two vans packed with 448 kilogrammes of marijuana destined for the South.
566,000 speed pills seized in Chumphon
Amnart Thongdee, Published on 02/02/2016
» CHUMPHON — Police confiscated more than a half-million methamphetamine tablets during the arrest of four supsects in Pathiu 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.
Ancient Buddha images donated
Amnart Thongdee, Published on 12/09/2014
» A couple in Chumphon province have presented the government with four ancient Buddha images believed to be about 900 years old.
608k of ganja seized in Chumphon
Amnart Thongdee, Published on 29/05/2013
» Highway police in Chumphon province seized 608kg of marijuana, or <i>ganja</i>, after giving chase to a truck which fled through a checkpoint in Lang Suan district after being signalled to stop for a search.
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.