Nearly 50 illegal call center workers mostly from China were arrested after Bangkok police raided two homes. The call centers targeted people from China in their money scams. The arrested workers claimed to be deceived and coerced into working their jobs. BANGKOK – March 11, 2013 [Pattaya Daily News]; At 3 p.m., simultaneous police raids […]
Two Latvian men were arrested following a tip-off that some tourists had used fake credit cards to buy goods in Bangkok malls, Tourism police deputy chief Pol Colonel Archayong Kraithong told a press conference yesterday. The suspects, Vladislavs Poplavskis, 53 and Arkadijs Artjuhs, 56, were nabbed on Friday with eight credit cards (two issued by […]
BANGKOK, March 7 – Don Mueang Airport, Bangkok’s budget airline facility, will boost its capability to take 27.5 million passengers annually in 2016, an airport executive said today. Don Mueang Airport director Paranee Wattanotai said Terminal II is being developed to cope with expanded service capacity given its clear-cut role as an aviation facility for […]
Metropolitan Police Area 5 investigators submitted their final report on the hit-and-run case against Vorayuth Yoovidhya, grandson of the Red Bull energy drink founder, to the Southern Bangkok Court’s public prosecutor on Monday. The 27-year-old Vorayuth crashed his Ferrari into on-duty Pol Senior Sgt-Major Wichien Klanprasert and then fled the scene on September 3, 2012. […]
BANGKOK, 3 MARCH 2013 (NNT) – MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra of the Democrat Party has won the Bangkok gubernatorial election with a record-high number of votes, surpassing 1.25 million votes. According to the unofficial result of 100% vote count on Sunday March 3rd, MR Sukhumbhand has gained 1.25 million votes, defeated Pol Gen Pongsapat Pongcharoen who […]
BANGKOK, March 2 – Six suspects, two Thais and four ethnic Tai Yai, were arrested by Thai authorities with 800,000 methamphetamine pills and 16kg of crystal meth or ‘ice’ were seized at two residential buildings Phra Pradaeng district in Samut Prakan and in Nonthaburi. Pol Maj-Gen Surapol Tuanthong, deputy chief of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau, […]
BANGKOK, 26 February 2013 (NNT) – The Commerce Ministry and the Thai Gems and Jewelry Traders Association have kicked off the 51st Bangkok Gems and Jewelry Fair to stimulate jewelry trading and export. Deputy Commerce Minister Nattawut Saikua presided over the opening ceremony of the 51st Bangkok Gems and Jewelry Fair at IMPACT. Held during […]
BANGKOK, Feb 23 – The Transport Ministry has unveiled a multi-million-baht project to construct Thailand’s longest cable-suspension bridge linking two seaboard provinces of Samut Prakarn and Samut Sakhon, according to a senior official. Prasert Janruang-thong, deputy transport minister, said the 1,120-metre bridge will stretch over the Chao Phraya and Tha Chin rivers. Read more: MCOT
