BANGKOK, Nov 3 (TNA) – Police have found connection between a call scam gang and the raided Jinling entertainment venue in Bangkok’s Yannawa district. Police searched three residential places in Prawet and Sukhumvit areas. They arrested 10 Chinese suspects and impounded about 10 luxury cars, 42 million baht in cash and luxury bags worth about […]
A Chinese businessman linked to a pub in Yannawa district of Bangkok raided by police on Tuesday night is listed as a donor of the ruling Palang Pracharath Party, Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin admitted on Thursday. Somsak, the chief strategist of Palang Pracharath, said the businessman, Chaiyanat Kornchayanant, donated as much as three million baht […]
A total of 104 customers, 99 of them Chinese nationals, tested positive for drugs during a police raid on three adjacent buildings illegally operating as a nightclub in Bangkok’s Yannawa area in the early hours of Wednesday. Thirty-four luxury cars found in the buildings’ grounds were impounded, including a Rolls Royce. The nightclub was said […]
A police major was among three people shot dead at a gambling den in Yannawa district on Monday night by a losing gambler, who was in turn killed by another man now being hunted by police. The city police chief said on Tuesday the slain officer was not on duty. He and everyone else in […]
A Bangkok-based French diplomat on Monday jumped to his death from the Taksin Skytrain station in Yannawa district. He was identified as J.-C. D. A., 56, deputy information chief officer at the French Embassy in Bangkok. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
A 23-year-old Uzbek woman jumped to her death from a high-rise building in Yannawa district of Bangkok yesterday morning. Bang Phong Pang police and rescuers who responded at SV City Tower found the body of a woman wearing a black sleeveless top and black trousers on the third-floor mezzanine. She was lying face down in […]
A gang of teenagers was arrested for allegedly robbing more than 60 men during the past three months, including Chulalongkorn University students. “During the interrogation, they confessed to stealing motorcycles and robbing people since December. They committed about 50 crimes in the Yannawa area alone,” Pol Maj General Wanlop Pratummueang, commander of Metropolitan Police Division […]
Bangkok police discovered a slaughterhouse that specialized in butchering and stuffing tigers, zebras, elephants, crocodiles and wild buffalo, an anti-trafficking group said Monday. Police raided the site in the capital’s Yannawa district Saturday and interrupted four men in the process of chopping up a 400-kilogram male tiger, FREELAND director Steven Galster said. Read more: The […]
