Bangkok police broke up a prostitution ring that advertised on a website. An undercover bust of a 14-year-old prostitute led to the arrests of ladyboy pimps. The girls told police they would be beaten at school by the ladyboys if they did not show up for work as hookers. Pattaya Daily News
BANGKOK, 8 February 2013 (NNT) – Suvarnabhumi Airport is celebrating this year’s Chinese New Year with beautiful decorations of floral arrangements and Chinese lanterns in the passenger terminal to mark this special occasion. On the occasion of the Chinese New Year, the Airports of Thailand (AoT) has decorated the entrance of the passenger terminal in […]
Like a scene out of some action movie, explosions and flames ravaged a garage specialising in installing petrol tanks in Bangkok’s Taling Chan district Thursday, injuring four people. The incident took place at 11.30am at the triple-garage building of PR Supergas Co Ltd near Soi Boromrajajonani 28. Read more: The Nation
A 17-year-old female was arrested by Bangkok police for procuring a 15-year-old girl to have sex with an undercover officer. The suspect said she had no job but needed to feed her small child. So she began supplying teen prostitutes to mostly adult men. Pattaya Daily News
At least 49 homeless people died on the streets last year, some of them due to HIV-Aids, and the number of people living in Bangkok’s public spaces is on the rise, the Issarachon Foundation reported Thursday. The foundation, which provides assistance to the homeless, especially those with HIV and Aids, found many homeless with symptoms […]
Somchai Khunplome, alias Kamnan Poh who is the father of the culture minister, was arrested Wednesday at a hospital in Bangkok’s Pattanakarn area. Somchai, former mayor of Tambon Sansuek administration in Chon Buri, has been on the run from a jail term in a corruption case. Read more: The Nation By The Nation
BANGKOK, Jan 29 – A group of Red Shirt activists rallied at Government House today, demanding the government’s promulgation of a law to grant amnesty to political prisoners held since the 2006 against the then government of Thaksin Shinawatra. Led by Suda Rangkupan, a lecturer in Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Arts, the group said the […]
BANGKOK, Jan 28 – Police said a preliminary investigation indicated that the Sunday fire at Grand Tower Inn Hotel Bangkok was likely set by a hotel employee, the only fatality, and that the incident was due to personal conflicts. The fire broke out almost simultaneously in eight different locations in the hotel premises, leaving one […]
