A red-shirt leader says he will ask his fellow men who have fled arrest warrants for their roles in last year’s political unrest to turn themselves in after eight of the group’s key elements were released on bail. The freed defendants will also deliver their speeches at the group’s rally next month. Red-shirt leader Jatuporn […]
SURAT, 23 February 2011 (NNT) – Executive Director of the Department of Events of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), Chaiwiwat Boonyapak in collaboration with Samui Municipality has opened “Samui International Body Painting Competition” which is expected to take place this weekend on Thailand’s most popular island of Samui, Surat Thani province. Mr. Chaiwiwat said […]
AFTER a long wait for the much-heralded Swedish-made Gripen jet fighters to be commissioned, Royal Thai Air Force pilots are now itching to fly the new aircraft that will replace vintage F-5 fighters. The Gripen, with the designated code of JAS-39 C/D, has technological advantages 30 years ahead of even the US-made F-16 fighters, the […]
Drug dealers and influential mafia bosses are said to be funding the insurgency and attacks in the deep South, including the most recent car bombings, an analysis by the Fourth Army Area commander Lt-General Udomchai Thammasarorat showed. “They have also heightened their operations in response to extensive suppression by security forces and civilian authorities, and […]
Two Russian tourists who were riding a motorbike just past the Dolphin roundabout in the direction of Pattaya Beach Road were the subject of an assault and robbery on Monday evening. The two Russians, one aged 46 the other 51, were just passing the Amari Orchid hotel at about 9:00pm when two Thai men on […]
Tourist police raided the scam call centre office that was running over an internet shop by a European gang who used internet overseas calling to defraud the victims abroad. Approximately 10 million baht was discovered having been transferred to the gang’s accounts. Pattaya, 23rd February 2011 [PDN] At 1.00 am police Major Arun Phromphan Pattaya […]
Phi Phi Island residents were overjoyed yesterday to learn they would be able to access state-run electricity within six months, as the National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department will allow power poles to be erected in the Hat Noppharat Thara – Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park. The poles-in-the-park decision followed a visit to […]
Lincolnshire couple found dead on Thailand holiday A couple from Lincolnshire have died while on holiday in Thailand, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has confirmed. George and Eileen Everitt, from Boston, were in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, when they died on 19 February. BBC
