A traffic policeman was hit by one taxi and run over by another in an accident on Asoke-Ratchada road in Watthana district of Bangkok early Tuesday morning. Police colleagues said Pol Sr Sgt-Maj Nathapong Sangkhadit, 54, of Traffic Police Division 2, was on traffic duty in front of the prime minister’s house, which is nearby, […]
NARATHIWAT, Jan 10 – Thailand’s southernmost province of Narathiwat on Monday was been declared a disaster zone as incessant heavy rain triggered flooding over large parts of the province and has affected thousands of residents, Narathiwat governor Thanon Vejjakornkanon said. The governor designated all 13 districts disaster areas and promptly allocated budget to assist 37,000 […]
BANGKOK—Merchandising is alive and well when it comes to anti-government protests in Thailand. Street vendors of red shirted supporters, or the UDD (United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship), were among the first to set up their stalls around Bangkok’s Democracy Monument where a large-scale protest started on Sunday morning. The vendors were the earliest protesters […]
A foreigner was arrested at the Sa Kaeo immigration checkpoint Monday for carrying a fake passport. The passport identified the man as Christian Alphonse, 35, Guinean. Officials, however, found the passport was forged. The Guinea embassy also denied issuing this passport. The suspect has now been detained. He admitted paying Bt8,000 for the fake passport […]
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva Sunday promised that his government will reduce crimes by 20 per cent in six months. He said the government will install more security cameras in remote spots and increase police patrols in such areas to prevent crimes. The measure is part of the people’s agenda for 2011 announced at the Queen […]
The Bangkok Post reported today that the former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra offered to help the seven Thai nationals currently being detained in Cambodia. Among those arrested for trespassing in Banteay Meanchey province, a Democrat member of parliament for Bangkok, Panich Vikitsreth, told Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday that he had “unintentionally” crossed into […]
Reported in yesterday’s Thai Rath that an Australian, Ronald Wayne Martin was shot dead outside his rural home in Petchabun. The Thai gunman’s wife had apparently absconded with another farang some time ago and he told police that he hated all farang and wanted to kill one. There is a photo of Martin’s Thai wife […]
BANGKOK, Jan 9 — Over 26,000 Thai workers now living in Israel have been warned again not to work near the Gaza Strip and nearby areas after three labourers were wounded by a mortar shell believed to have been fired by Palestinians into an Israeli agricultural community close to the Gaza Strip on Saturday, a […]
