Thai police recently made a mass seizure of counterfeit software amid ongoing piracy raids in Thailand. Microsoft reminds Thai consumers and businesses to always purchase from approved resellers following discovery of new ‘high-end’ counterfeit software from China. Officers from the Economic and Cyber Crime Division of the Royal Thai Police have carried out a series […]
Over half a million British ex-pat pensioners are now being deprived of their entitlement to annual increases to their state old-age pensions due to new British government regulations with many of these living in Pattaya and throughout Thailand. Many others are receiving the increases by stating that they are still residing in Britain when they […]
LAMPOON, 20 January 2011 (NNT)-An earthquake registered 2.0 on the Richter scale was reported in Lamphun province last night at 10.51 p.m. No damage or injuries have been reported so far. The Seismological Bureau of Thailand has reported that the tremor occurred in Takat sub district of Mae-Tha district, Lamphun Province last night. Residents, particularly […]
British pensioners in Thailand have started a murder fund after a court released a Thai wife who allegedly commissioned the death of her London husband and then began to milk his bank accounts. In Hua Hin, 200 miles south west of Bangkok, pensioners Peter Rees, 71, and David Williams, 65, have put £11,000 into a […]
NARATHIWAT, Jan 20 – Insurgents carried out a surprise attack on an army unit in Narathiwat’s Rangae district Wednesday night, killing four soldiers–including an army company commander–and wounding six others. The attack occurred just two days after the government extended its emergency decree in the three southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala, and only […]
BANGKOK, Jan 19 — Thailand’s Tourist Police Division arrested three Taiwanese nationals involved in operating a call centre scam syndicate perpetrating their crimes on residents of Taiwan and mainland China. The three suspects–identified as Chen Jui Lin, Kuo Yu Heng and Yen Yi Chun–were arrested at an apartment in the eastern province of Chonburi’s Bang […]
The National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department will not close all the marine national parks along the Andaman Sea coast to save damaged coral reefs from bleaching. “Closing the marine national parks will not help the coral reefs recover from bleaching,” the Department’s directorgeneral Sunant Arunnopparat said. The Marine and Coastal Resources Department prepared […]
BANGKOK, 19 January 2011 (NNT) – The Ministry of Education is pressing ahead with its campaign to raise awareness about unwanted pregnancy and unsafe sex among teenagers. Speaking upon the launch of the campaign, Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat elaborated that the campaign would educate teenagers aged between 15 and 19 years old to realize the […]
