A gang of British residents has been found guilty of helping eight illegal immigrants travel to the United Kingdom on flights from Bangkok and received prison sentences totalling 29 years, at a court in London, earlier this month. The eight week trial was the culmination of a two year investigation by UK law enforcement agencies […]
Thai Ex-prime minister Thaksin shinawatra has been writing a book on the economy, offering insights on how to tackle Thai economic woes, his legal adviser Noppadon Patama said on Friday. “Thaksin is presently in Dubai and I understand he is writing his new book,” Noppadon said. He said Thaksin’s book would be released at an […]
Bangkok – Thai customs authorities seized 118 elephant tusks, 50 pieces of ivory and three rhino horns in cargo containers flown in from Nigeria, officials said Friday. Customs officials discovered the huge illegal shipment, weighing more than 1,050 kilograms, at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport on Wednesday aboard a flight that originated in Lagos, Nigeria. Monsters […]
A woman, who is allegedly selling her 16 year old niece to foreigners for the purposes of sex has been arrested by Region 2 Police. Officers from the Child and Women Protection Unit based at Banglamung Police Station organized an undercover operation late on Wednesday Night outside the Carrefour Shopping Center in Central Pattaya. An […]
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva holds dual Thai and British nationality, the opposition has told the parliament as it continues to pressure Mr Abhisit to come clean about his roots. Mr Abhisit was born in Newcastle in 1964 and became a British citizen by virtue of being born there. He is also Thai as he was […]
AN EXPAT who has been living on Phuket for more than 10 years was found dead in a house in Rawai yesterday. He was Andreas Born, 49. Mr Born’s body was found in an upstairs room of a house in a soi near the landmark Shell Museum. Neighbors alerted police, who said Mr Born had […]
Thailand’s police Wednesday afternoon rescued 14 Vietnamese women hailing from Mekong Delta provinces after they busted a transnational ring offering surrogate services in Bangkok’s suburbs. At a private house No. 246, Soi 150, in Thararong, four Vietnamese girls T.T.M.P., M.T.H., L.T.N.H, and T.B, aged from 19 to 26, said they were moved here from southern […]
BANGKOK, 24 February 2011 (NNT) – The government will urgently assist all Thai people residing in both Libya and New Zealand, according to Deputy Secretary General to the Prime Minister and Acting Government Spokesperson Dr Panitan Wattanayagorn. Dr Panitan stated that both the Royal Thai Air Force and Thai Airways International are currently ready to […]
