Toxic fire
Thick smoke rises above Thai Poly Plaspac Co on Rama 2 Soi 2 in Bangkok’s Chom Thong district after the factory caught fire on November 28. Firefighters struggled to contain the blaze which was fuelled by plastic resin.
In deep water
Illegal fishermen detained
Local fishermen seized two Vietnamese fishing vessels and detained 18 crew members caught fishing in Thai waters off Nakhon Si Thammarat’s Hua Sai district on the evening of November 27.
The crewmen, 11 Vietnamese nationals and seven Cambodians, and the seized vessels were taken to Pak Nam Preak Muang pier in Hua Sai district, where police were waiting for them.
Thai fishing boat owner Narin Niyomdecha said about 200 to 300 foreign trawlers regularly fish in Thai waters, only 35 nautical miles offshore between Muang Songkhla and Sichon districts.
Bad business
Hijacked tanker crew detained
Police detained eight Indonesian nationals aboard a hijacked oil tanker off the Narathiwat coast. They were allegedly waiting to sell more than two million litres of palm oil to a buyer in the province.
Police said the hijacked tanker, Sricadi 515, was sailing off the coast of Narathiwat on November 27 when they intercepted the vessel and arrested its eight crew members.
Apart from 2.7 million litres of palm oil, police said they found and seized knives and axes from the crew.
EASY NEWS FOR M1-3
Murder mystery
Family found dead in field
Three people were found dead in a cassava field. They were believed to be a family from Myanmar. It happened in Kanchanaburi on November 28. The victims were a man, a woman and a young girl. All had suffered knife wounds.
Vocabulary
- resin (n): an artificial substance used in making plastics
vessel (n): a large ship or boat
detain (v): to keep somebody in an official place such as police station, a prison, etc. and prevent them from leaving
hijack (v): to use violence or threats to take control of a vehicle in order to force it to travel to a different place
cassava (n): a type of flour made from the thick roots of a tropical plant
