Phuket – An Australian tourist on honeymoon in Phuket with his wife was killed in a road accident here at noon Friday. Ten others, eight of them foreign tourists, were injured in the accident. The killed tourist was identified as Michael Moloazo, 26. Police said Moloaazo and the other foreign tourists were being driven in […]
BANGKOK – THAILAND’S ‘red shirt’ movement will hold a week-long protest in Bangkok from mid-February, one of its leader said on Thursday, taking aim at unelected elites it says have long dominated the country’s political landscape. Although the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) would continue targeting advisers to the country’s revered monarchy, it […]
A new Danish tour company whose employees have been arrested for working illegally is asking for help from authorities, claiming it pumps vast sums of money into the Phuket economy. Scanway Tyrkiet Eksperten says it will bring 8,000 Scandinavians on Aurela Airlines charter flights to the island this high season. Assuming each tourist spends 40,000 […]
BANGKOK – Thai police launched a murder hunt Wednesday after the naked body of a retired Singaporean man was found dumped in a field. Teo Ah Yua, 65, had been strangled with his own shirt and his hands and legs were tied with nylon ropes, said police in the southeastern town of Sri Racha. Teo […]
A 20-year crime mystery that has seriously affected diplomatic relations between Thailand and Saudi Arabia has taken another twist. Five Thai police officers have been charged with the murder of a Saudi businessman who disappeared in 1990. The case stems from the theft of millions of dollars of jewels from a Saudi palace by a […]
But many in high-risk groups still confused Thailand has begun free vaccinations against type-A (H1N1) flu but many people classified as being at risk remain confused about the programme. Health volunteer Aree Wattanawaranon, 62, who was among the first 50 patients listed for vaccination at Phra Nangklao Hospital in Nonthaburi yesterday, said she had learned […]
BANGKOK, Jan 11 (TNA) – The numbers of the supporters of the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD)–the Red Shirts—are growing early Monday at the vacation residence of Privy Councillor Gen Surayud Chulanont at Khao Yai Thiang in Nakhon Ratchasima, but the protesters vow that they will neither use violence nor trespass into […]
Chon Buri – A Russian tourist was nearly cut in half by propellers of a speedboat off Pattaya coast Monday afternoon, police said. Police said two tourists were hit by propellers of a two-engine speedboat, Kantalak 409, near Koh Larn off Pattaya’s coast in Bang Lamung district at 2 pm while the two were scuba […]
