Bangkok – Police said Monday they arrested two German university graduates as suspected members of an internet banking theft ring preying on Thai nationals. D. I., 22, and D. A., 23, both recent graduates from Munich University, were arrested in Pattaya beach resort over the weekend, said Police Colonel Suphisarn Pakdinarunart, acting commissioner of the […]
Thai health authorities are urging women not to wear fashionable black leggings to avoid attracting dengue fever-carrying mosquitoes. They recommend thick clothes such as jeans after a dengue outbreak. This year 26 out of 43 dengue deaths in Thailand were of people between the ages of 10 and 24. There have been 40,000 cases this […]
UBON RATCHATHANI, 8 August 2010 (NNT) – Over 800 people in the northeastern province of Ubon Ratchathani have been infected with dengue fever; reported the Ministry of Public Health. Dr. Suraporn Loiha of the Ubon Ratchathani Provincial Public Health, said 882 people have so far come down with the fever, two of whom already died. […]
SI SA KET, Aug 8 – Cambodian villagers are reluctant to cross the border to buy Thai goods at a Sunday market in this Thai border province where the disputed ancient temple lies. The Sunday market in Si Sa Ket’s Phu Sing border district has been quiet since early Sunday as Cambodian villagers are fearful […]
Narathiwat – A Buddhist woman was gunned down apparently by Muslim insurgents in this southern border province Saturday. Ratana Kwanjai, 42, was shot and killed in her rubber plantation in Tambon Kaluwor of Muang district. She suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Police found eight M16 and AK-47 spent shells at the scene. The Nation
A woman nine months pregnant, was rewarded with 10,000 baht after assisting police officers in catching a car thief in Bangkok. Bangkok, 6th August 2010: The Khao Sod Thai newspaper reported that police Major General Kreerin Inkaew (Metropolitan Police 9 Commander), police Colonel Sunthorn Torod (Luksong Police Station Superintendent), police Lieutenant Colonel Yutthaphong Intharaphong (Luksong […]
ONE has drowned and another tourist is missing in a day of tragedy at two of Phuket’s most popular but treacherous beaches. The tourist from Korea or China, pulled from the water at Kata, died at Patong Hospital this afternoon with his wife at his bedside. Hope is fading that the other tourist, from Bahrain, […]
Police have arrested members of a Taiwanese group in Chon Buri alleged to have lured people into transferring more than 350 million baht into their accounts via ATM machines. Thirteen suspects – nine Taiwanese and four Chinese nationals – were arrested in two separate raids on Friday. Twelve of the suspects, five of them women, […]
