A fire broke out at the extension part of Central World Bangkok on Sunday. The fire broke out at 11 am on the 11t floor. Police closed traffic in the area to facilitate fire engines rushing to the scene. The Nation
Thai police have arrested a French language instructor who allegedly sexually abused a young boy in Nan province. Police said the man sold photographs of the children on the internet. Nan Provincial Police have arrested a 48 year old (name removed), a French national language instructor who allegedly sexually abused a number of young boys […]
A German National died inside a Beer Bar in Soi 14 off the Naklua Road on Thursday Afternoon. Police and Rescue Services were called to the bar and inspected the body of Mr. Josef Johann Joachim Diessenbacher aged 48. He was lying on a sofa in the bar and had been drinking since 8am and […]
PATTANI, Feb 19 — Deputy Interior Minister Thavorn Senneam on Saturday warned that insurgents operating in the deep South have stepped up unrest during 2011, while presumed insurgents shot dead a former member of the Tambon (Sub-district) Administration Organisation (TAO) of the southern-troubled Pattani province. Mr Thavorn said that there were signs that insurgents in […]
AN URGENT plea has been issued by a Phuket family to prevent a young Thai boy from being taken out of the country by his stepmother in an international tug-of-love. The boy, Ricardo Chain Pol Choosaneh, is the nine-year-old son of a woman from a well-off Patong family and a Dutchman. The Dutchman won a […]
The first Thailand-born panda cub, Lin Ping, will remain at the Chiang Mai Zoo for another two years after China accepted Thailand’s request to extend its stay in the Kingdom. An overjoyed Prasertsak Buntrakulpuntawi, head of Chiang Mai Zoo’s panda research project, said yesterday he had received unofficial news from Chinese authorities that the paperwork […]
IT’S schoolies on steroids. A teenager’s paradise. No parents, no rules, no authorities, no police. No limits. Welcome to Thailand’s infamous Full Moon parties, where the signature drink is a bucket of hard alcohol with red bull – drugs of all kinds are bought over the counter at bars. Every month, thousands of backpackers descend […]
TRAT, 19 February 2011 (NNT) – A ban on alcohol has been issued by the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) for seven national parks in the East, including Mu Ko Chang National Park. The DNP now prohibits visitors from bringing alcoholic beverages into a total of seven national parks located in […]
