HOLIDAY CHEER
Christmas illuminations at the CentralWorld shopping mall in Bangkok attract a large number of revellers on December 25.
LIQUOR LOST
Container truck burgled
Thieves broke open a container truck before making off with two pallets of wine and liquor worth about 150,000 baht.
The thieves cut the lock off of the container while the driver was sleeping in a truck parked by the roadside near Motorway No. 9 in Pathum Thani province's Khlong Luang district on December 25, police said.
Driver Wiloem Dithawi, 38, told officers a passing motorist woke him at 5:30 am to tell him that the container's door was open.
TREE TRAFFICKING
Phayung seized in Si Sa Ket
Authorities arrested 11 Cambodians who allegedly encroached on a forest in Si Sa Ket to fell protected phayung, or Siamese rosewood trees.
22 phayung logs worth about 1.5 million baht were confiscated during the raid by police and forestry officials in Khun Han district of Si Sa Ket on December 24, about 6 kilometres from the Thai-Cambodian border.
Authorities said they saw about 20 men sawing and processing the trees, but many of them managed to escape the raid. The Cambodian suspects admitted that they would deliver the phayung logs to sell to a Cambodian trader.
EASY NEWS FOR M1-3
FATAL FIREWORKS
Explosion kills two
There was an explosion on December 25. It happened at a fireworks factory. The factory is located in Muang district of Suphan Buri province. The blast killed two workers. 10 other people were injured. Police were investigating the cause of the explosion.
Vocabulary
- pallet (n): a heavy wooden or metal base that can be used for moving or storing goods
encroach (v) to slowly begin to cover more and more of an area
fell (v): to cut down a tree
