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Sand beach in Mekong River reopens, brings local economy to life 6 published : 16 Feb 2021 at 12:36 6 A boat leaves the Mekong River bank, taking visitors to sand beach, Had Hae (top right), in the Mekong River, in tambon Nam Kam of That Phanom district, Nakhon Phanom province. The popular island reopened to visitors last week, with strict Covid-19 controls. (Photo: Pattanapong Sripiachai) NAKHON PHANOM: A popular sandy beach on an island in the Mekong River has been reopened to visitors, to the delight of local businesses, after being clo...

484kg marijuana seized on Mekong riverbank 10 published : 15 Feb 2021 at 16:32 10 Dried marijuana, 484 kilogrammes in total, is put on display at the That Phanom district office in Nakhon Phanom. The drugs, smuggled from Laos, were seized on the Mekong riverbank on Sunday night. (Photo by Pattanapong Sripiachai) NAKHON PHANOM: A combined government unit seized 484 kilogrammes of dried marijuana in an operation on the bank of the Mekong river in That Phanom district late on Sunday night. Samart Suwanmanee, the That Phanom district chief, sa...

Oddball abusive mum, grandpa exposes bent cop, itinerant bra published : 14 Feb 2021 at 04:00 Abuse catches up with pair A seven-year-old boy rescued from a violent home has dispelled doubts over who was responsible for a savage beating early this month. Nong Meelo, now in the care of a welfare home in Nakhon Phanom after his birth father laid a police complaint that his birth mother and stepfather had abused the boy, upheld his father's version of events. He said the pair had rounded on him in a "scrum", as one Thai news report put it, beating him and kicking him on Feb 3 until bruises ...

25 A disease control worker sprays disinfectant at a branch of the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives in That Phanom district of Nakhon Phanom on Thursday. (Photo: Pattanapong Sripiachai) NAKHON PHANOM: Community testing for Covid-19 was continuing at locked down villages on Thursday after a local food vendor was found to have been infected by visitors from Bangkok over the New Year. Disease control workers have taken samples for testing from more than 800 people in That Phanom district who had contact with the 51-year-old food vendor, who lives in Ba...

25 A disease control worker sprays disinfectant at a branch of the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives in That Phanom district of Nakhon Phanom on Thursday. (Photo: Pattanapong Sripiachai) NAKHON PHANOM: Community testing for Covid-19 was continuing at locked down villages on Thursday after a local food vendor was found to have been infected by visitors from Bangkok over the New Year. Disease control workers have taken samples for testing from more than 800 people in That Phanom district who had contact with the 51-year-old food vendor, who lives in Ba...