That Phanom News Today

Fear abounds that they were brought to breed for the export of big-cat bones.

Thailand's Narcotic Suppression Bureau (NSB) recovered 22 million methamphetamine pills and 620 kilograms of crystal meth in seven incidents

NAKHON PHANOM: Police report many people rushing to close "mule" bank accounts they say were opened without their knowledge by scammers who fooled them into handing over their personal data.

Nakhon Phanom is cracking down on locals burning garbage and vegetation outdoors as the Northeast city on the banks of the Mekong chokes under heavy smog that descended on Tuesday.

A ministerial regulation is being amended so that anyone with more than one methamphetamine pill in possession, instead of 15, will be regarded as having the pills with intent to sell, not for personal use as at present.

NAKHON PHANOM: An army patrol seized 21 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine packaged as Chinese tea from the bank of the Mekong river, and arrested one suspect, in That Phanom district.

NAKHON PHANOM: A Mekong Riverine Unit patrol arrested two men with 257 kilogrammes of contraband marijuana from Laos, in That Phanom district late on Sunday night, police said.

KHON KAEN: A man was arrested with 720,000 methamphetamine pills in possession after a chase by highway police in Nong Song Hong district on Sunday morning, police said.

Police in Nakhon Phanom have found more clues to suggest that an unidentified Lao woman whose body was found stuffed inside a suitcase in the Mekong River on Sept 28 was killed in Laos.

NAKHON PHANOM: An unidentified murder victim found in a suitcase in the Mekong River might be a Lao businesswoman missing from Vientiane since last week, relatives told police after seeing photos of her clothes.