A 22-year-old man was shot dead on a No 34 bus in Bangkok’s Phya Thai area early yesterday morning. The motives behind the shooting remain unknown. Police rushed to the scene just after midnight yesterday along with rescue workers to find the body of Ekkapoj Buaphrai with two bullet wounds at the entrance to the […]
BANGKOK, Jan 19 – Police arrested a former American lawyer who had worked in the United States using his position to deceive other Americans. Jan Morton Heger, 68, was arrested at his home in Bangkok’s Sukhumvit area after the Thai authorities received a request from the US authorities. According to police, Mr Heger, who has […]
The transport minister is poised to enforce strict control on the speed limit on highways and regulate school buses across the country in the interest of safety. Transport Minister Sopon Sarum stated he has unveiled two urgent policies on road safety. The policies are in accordance with the Transport Ministry’s mandate to decrease road accidents […]
Chaiwat Sinsuwong and Somboon Thongburan, two former yellow-shirt leaders facing terrorism charges over the seizure of two Bangkok airports in 2008, were arrested yesterday during a protest against the jailing of seven Thais in Cambodia. Crime Suppression police nabbed the two after Chaiwat had earlier dared the police to arrest him. It was unclear why […]
Communications between the United States Embassy in Bangkok and the United States State Department, released by the whistleblower website Wikileaks and featured in the United Kingdom-based Guardian newspaper, highlight a disturbing growing trend of foreign gangs operating in and out of Pattaya. The communication stated: “Thailand enjoys a rapid expansion of Russian tourists visiting Thailand […]
After recently getting an iPad to call my own, I sought out to find a carrier to funnel data over 3G. One limiting factor is that my area only has access to 3G on True Move’s network and the strongest signal in most of the places I frequent is also from True Move. So it […]
The Bangkok police chief is confident that crime can be cut by 20 per cent in the capital city, in line with the government’s target, with the ongoing crackdown on illegal drugs leading the way. A large amount of the various types of illegal drugs seized during recent raids was displayed at a press conference […]
BANGKOK, Jan 18 – The Cabinet on Tuesday extended the state of emergency in Thailand’s three southernmost insurgency-plagued provinces for another three months. The extension is the 22nd since the law was introduced in mid-2005 to restore peace in the southern border region. The special law facilitates the operations of security agencies and allows them […]
