BANGKOK, April 11 – Thai police on Monday arrested an Iranian man at Suvarnabhumi Airport for smuggling 6.8 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ‘ice,’ worth Bt20 million (US$660,000). The arrest of Mehdi Nikzad, 27, was a joint operation between Thailand’ s Narcotics Suppression Bureau, the Immigration Police and Special Branch Police. Read more: […]
The family of an academic who with eight other van passengers was killed in a tollway crash 100 days ago yesterday sued the girl driving the other vehicle for Bt36 million ($1.2 million). In the civil lawsuit, the mother of Sastra Chaothiang said she had lost support from her son calculated from his Bt50,000 monthly […]
A small chartered plane crashed into a northern Philippine mountain park and burst into flames Sunday, killing two people on board, police said. Four other people on board were injured and taken to hospital after the aircraft slammed into a forest track at the Camp John Hay resort. Read more: Bangkok Post
An accomplice of an arrested drug dealer attempted to pay for her friend’s freedom with 80,000 Baht cash but she was charged with bribery of officers instead Pattaya, 7th April 2011 [PDN]: At 4.30 p.m., Police Lieutenant, Wissanu Chaisuwan (Assistant Suppressing Officer of Pattaya Police Department) and the police team arrested two drug suspects. Read […]
Chinese police on Sunday detained dozens of worshippers from an unregistered Christian church who were trying to hold an outdoor service after being evicted from their usual place of worship in Beijing. Leaders of the Shouwang church, a protestant group with about 1,000 members, had urged worshippers to gather for Sunday services at an open-air […]
BANGKOK, 10 April 2011 (NNT)- Jon Eddy Abdullah, CEO of Total Access Communication PLC (DTAC), reveals a 1.2 billion baht expansion with the 3G HSPA service at 850 megahertz, which will cover 1,220 stations in order to seek for constructive solutions with CAT Telecom Public Company Limited and launch commercial services Alternatively, during January to […]
BANGKOK 10 APRIL 2011 (NNT)- People have been gradually returning to hometown during the long weekend holidays of Songkran Festival, making bus terminals nationwide active with human and vehicle traffics. The bus terminal in Hat Yai , Songkhla province is crowded with a large number of passengers traveling from Bangkok Metropolis in order to celebrate […]
BANGKOK, April 10 — Anti-government protesters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) on Sunday held a mass rally in the Thai capital to commemorate the first anniversary of a deadly clash with security troops where colleagues were killed, while relatives of the deceased organised religious rites. As of the filing of this […]
