A Nigerian man was arrested at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport along with two kilograms of crystal meth, which was reportedly bound for Malaysia, police said Tuesday. Acting upon a tip-off that a Nigerian man will transport crystal meth from Ethiopia through Thailand to Malaysia, police searched the 22-year-old suspect Ejike Cornnelius Onho and found two […]
Two Nigerian have been arrested in Bangkok after police found 13 kilogramms of cocaine with one of them. Initially police arrested Nigerian national Chika Cletus Onwukwe, 30, in Sai Mai district after police found 13kgs of cocaine in his Toyota Yaris car at the mount of Soi Phaholyothin 58. He arrested in a sting operation. […]
BANGKOK, Jan 31 – Thai police arrested a Nigerian woman arriving at Suvarnabhumi Airport with a large amount of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ice, worth Bt9 million (US$300,000). Jennifer Chinenye Nwankuuo, 28, left Nairobi by Kenya Airlines and was arrested with three kilogrammes of ice and cash in US$1,950 (Bt58,500) and 5,935 naira (US$39 […]
Suspected Muslim separatists shot dead a Buddhist family of four in Thailand’s deep south, police said on Tuesday, the latest attack in an escalation of violence in the region. The killings followed a bloody raid on an army camp and a big roadside bombing in the past 12 days that were believed to have been […]
A second large group of Rohingya has been apprehended in Phuket’s Rawai region, bringing to about 68 the total of boatpeople caught on Phuket today. Thirty-three were in the first bunch, then two more were held. MORE THAN 60 Rohingya boatpeople have come ashore on Phuket and are now being held by police and Immigration […]
BANGKOK, 1 February 2011 (NNT) – Army Chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha has reaffirmed no loss of Thai territory so far while suggesting that negotiations rather than military means should be used to solve the border conflict. With escalating tensions along the Thai-Cambodian border, Gen Prayuth assured that troops and weaponry had been readied for the […]
For ages, Southern Thailand has been globally renowned for its sand beaches and magnificent coral reefs, attracting several millions of international tourists each year. Now, such national reputation could be in jeopardy after severe bleaching of corals was found in 2010. Important dive spots have thus been closed to rescue the marine lives. The coloration […]
Approaching the end of January is not traditionally the time to look at back at New Year’s predictions, but in the case of Thailand and 3G, convention and sense tend to go out the window. In my predictions for 2011 in Thailand I optimistically wrote that I hoped for “progress” with the process of getting […]
