It is a top tourist destination – but what the guidebooks don’t tell you is that Thailand’s roads are lethal. Now a group of mothers whose sons died in a bus crash are campaigning to change that. With the Christmas holidays winding down and the weather closing in, a winter break in the tropical sun […]
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has agreed to take on eight criminal activities as special issues, DSI director-general Tarit Pengdith said yesterday. On December 19, the Cabinet agreed to expand the scope of special cases to cover criminal cases related to computer activity, foreign-owned businesses in Thailand, human trafficking, mining, finance business, cosmetics, hazardous […]
A survey of smokers’ habits by Mahidol University has found a high percentage of entertainment venues enforce no-smoking laws on their premises, while less than half of all smokers complied with them, activists reported at a Bangkok media conference yesterday. The activists said the no-smoking laws would not be effective if smokers were not subject […]
An armed robber was shot dead while exchanging fire with police in a department store in Bangkok, reports said Thursday. About 11.40am, two men made off with gold ornaments from the Aurora gold shop at the Sukhaphiban 3 branch of Big C department store, the reports said. Read more: Bangkok Post
BANGKOK, Dec 29 – Bangkok’s Mo Chit 2 bus terminal was crowded on Thursday morning with passengers returning home for the 2012 New Year, while the Transport Company prepared buses sufficient for 5,000 trips per day, or 25,000 trips for the five-day holiday period. Wuttichart Kalayanamitr, Transport Company president, said he expected the number of […]
PHNOM PENH, Dec 29 – Cambodia on Thursday reemphasised that the two Thai activists now jailed in a Cambodian prison must serve two thirds of their jail terms before a royal pardon could be granted, but said it was possible for the pair to be released earlier if the two countries could agree on a […]
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, Dec 28 – The southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat is prepared to evacuate coastal areas after a warning from the government’s disaster response agency Wednesday morning. The Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department warned seaside residents that ocean waves will intensify Dec 29-30, while strong, high waves continue to pummel shoreline in […]
An overweight foreign man of unknown nationality, drank vodka getting massively drunk. Fell off the chair and died. Pattaya police assumes that the man succumbed to acute alcohol poisoning combined organ failure or congenital disease. Pattaya, December 27, 2011[PDN]; Pol. Lt. Col. Attaros Krongrat, Pattaya police station, Chonburi province, was notified about a fat foreigner […]
