NATIONAL NEWS from Surf 102.5 FM - Thursday 13 April 2023

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Three smugglers were shot dead and a large amount of drugs were seized after a shootout on the Thai-Myanmar border in Chiang Rai on Tuesday night. The clash began when soldiers spotted a group of men carrying backpacks and asked to search them, but the men responded by opening fire and fled after a five-minute gunfight.

 

Yesterday, an army sergeant major surrendered to the police claiming he purchased 8 million records of Thai citizens' personal data from the dark web for just 8,000 baht instead of the 55 million records he initially claimed to have. 

Police doubted his claims, but found computers, routers and other related equipment in the soldiers apartment.

The Soldier also admitted to being absent without leave since April 3rd.

 

Thai authorities arrested five Chinese individuals, aged 29 to 41, for running an illegal online money lending service from a luxurious house in Pattaya. 

The Four men and one woman communicated with customers in Chinese using notebook computers. Police seized eight laptops, 12 mobile phones, 50 SIM cards, and a list of over 100 customers. The suspects, who had overstayed their visas, claimed they didn’t realize their activity was illegal. 

A new species of flowering plant, never before seen, has been discovered by a group of researchers at Chiang Mai University.

 

The plant was found among samples collected from the southern province of Narathiwat and has been named LA-Lisa after the Thai pop star La-lisa from Blackpink. 

Around the region….

Myanmar's Military junta yesterday confirmed that it carried out Tuesday's air strike on a northwestern village in which killed over 100 people including around 30 children, drawing condemnation from the United Nations and Western powers.

 

Malaysia’s government yesterday released a report on a high-profile plane crash that killed several of the country’s  top leaders nearly 50 years ago, an air nomad airline crashed killing 11 people as it attempted to land in 1976. The report was made  public following Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s pledge for greater transparency by his administration.

 

The weather: 

Chiang Mai and the north:  Sunny, partly cloudy,  hot at 40 degrees!
The Air quality index is still red, purple and brown, air quality could be hazardous across much of the north. 
Bangkok:  Sunny,..partly cloudy,  hot 37 degrees. 
Much the same in Pattaya 34C
Phuket and the south , Sunny, partly cloudy 32C                                                                                               
and.. ‘Hua Hin’ : Sunny, partly cloudy  33 degrees.

The air quality index:  yellow to orange  - moderate

Credits: Bangkok Post, The Nation, Asean Now, Khaosod English,  Hua Hin Today, Royal Coast Review, Kulsawek Sawekwannakorn, Thainewsroom.com, The Pattaya News, Phuket News, Channel News Asia, South China Morning Post, The Straits Times. The Irrawaddy. Windy.com. Wunderground.com

 

 

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