Tag: Songkran
Metropolitan police on top of Songkran celebrations to assure public and...
BANGKOK, 13 April 2012 – Bangkok police have pledged to step up security measures during the Songkran holiday celebrations while urging the public...
Cambodia deploys 4,500 police for Thaksin’s safety: Red Shirt leader
BANGKOK, April 12 – A key leader of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), Thailand’s Red Shirt movement, said Thursday that...
Tourists flock to Hat Yai for holidays; bombed hotel reopens
SONGKHLA, April 12 - Malaysian tourists have begun their annual migration to Hat Yai and are checking in at the Lee Gardens Plaza...
Phuket urged to set up information centre on natural disasters
PHUKET, April 12 - An information centre should be set up to keep the public informed at times of natural disasters, the Phuket...
Road fatalities recorded after the start of Songkran holidays
BANGKOK, 13 April 2012 – A few days after the official campaign on safe Songkran holidays kicked off, road accidents and fatalities have...
Yingluck joins Songkran celebrations in Chiang Mai
CHIANG MAI, 13 April 2012 - Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra took part in an alms giving ceremony this morning in Chiang Mai province...
Water splashing kicks off nationwide marking Thai New Year
BANGKOK, April 13 – Thai New Year revellers started the Songkran water splashing festival with making merit in a morning alms-giving ceremony and...
Seaton Foundation makes merit for Songkran
The Seaton Foundation celebrated the Thai New Year a bit early, inviting monks to make merit and throwing a luncheon party for kids at...
Take cover – Songkran is here
The annual Songkran festival, which heralds the traditional beginning of the Thai New Year, begins today throughout the country. Locally, however, the official celebrations...
City clears water drains to prepare for Songkran
Pattaya Engineering Department workers cleared storm drains along Second Road to prepare for the deluge of water and powder about to hit the...
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Intoxicated driver crashes car into bridge barrier on motorway in Pattaya
PATTAYA, Thailand – Emergency responders from the Pattaya branch of the Sawang Boriboon Foundation, along with the motorway rescue team, were called to an...
Car makes sudden U-turn, collides with motorcycle, rider injured on Thepprasit Road, South Pattaya
PATTAYA, Thailand – The Pattaya Emergency Rescue Center was notified of a traffic accident involving a car and a motorcycle on Thepprasit Road, South...
Teen burglar arrested for stealing jewelry worth nearly 4 million baht from Australian businesswoman...
PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya police apprehended a 14-year-old Laotian youth, alias “Chang Noi,” who broke into the luxury condo of a 40-year-old Australian real...
Mexican driver arrested after hit-and-run incident leaves Pattaya street cleaner critically injured
PATTAYA, Thailand – A Mexican national was apprehended following a hit-and-run incident that critically injured a 22-year-old street cleaner on South Pattaya Road, November...
Worker pleads for help after motorcycle stolen in broad daylight in Pattaya
PATTAYA, Thailand – Komkrit Lukrathok, 29, an employee at a prominent electronics store in Pattaya, reported the theft of his Honda Wave 125 motorcycle...