Thai Customs told TPN media on Friday (April 7th) that on Thursday (April 6th) AITF (AIRPORT INTERDICTION TASK FORCE) officers X-rayed a targeted luggage in which they found 4.8 kilograms of cocaine worth more than 14.4 million baht. 2 Nigerians and 3 Thais arrested in Bangkok for allegedly possessing cocaine worth more than a million […]
Hundreds of supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have invaded the National Congress headquarters this Sunday in a massive demonstration calling for a military intervention to oust President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Images broadcast by media outlets such as CNN show numerous demonstrators, mostly dressed in yellow and green T-shirts and Brazilian flags, […]
The Livestock Development Department buried about 24 tonnes of frozen pork, which originated in Brazil and was smuggled into Thailand from a neighboring country, at a landfill in Phayuha Khiri district of Nakhon Sawan province yesterday (Monday). The pork was seized from a cold storage facility in Samut Prakan on September 11th. It was delivered […]
The number of inmates killed as a result of a prison riot in the Brazilian state of Amazonas increased to 60, local media reported Monday. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The incident was one of the bloodiest disasters in the country’s penitentiary system, the Globo television channel said, citing Sergio Fontes, head of security of the state […]
An Italian man has been accidentally shot and killed by drug dealers, who mistook him for a policeman, after his navigation system led him into a dangerous part of Rio de Janeiro. Fifty-two-year-old Roberto Bardella and his cousin Rino Polato were travelling through South America on motorbikes when fate guided them into the Morro dos […]
A 24-year-old Thai woman was invited to visit Brazil by a work colleague, but instead she got raped by black men and ordered to smuggle drugs back to Thailand or she would be killed. The Paveena Hongsakul foundation helped bring the victim back home. Thai girls are continually being victimized abroad by human traffickers, the […]
BANGKOK, 15 April 2012 (NNT) – According to a recent survey by famous Scottish travel website, Skyscanner, Thailand is one of most polite countries for travelers whereas France, Russia, UK, Germany and China tops the list of the World’s rudest countries. Skyscanner asked 1,200 tourists from Europe, North America and Australia to vote for the […]
Sa Kaeo police on Monday arrested a Thai woman who had entered the country from Cambodia and seized about a kilogramme of cocaine smuggled from Brazil. In the far South, two arrested fruit sellers reportedly admitted selling methamphetamine as a sideline because it is more profitable. Read more: Bangkok Post
