A 12-year-old girl is in a critical condition after her head got stuck between an escalator and the upper floor as the escalator was moving up at Future Park Rangsit, a mega-mall north of Bangkok yesterday. Nuanprae Wasutpichaikul’s hair got entangled in the escalator while she bent down to watch a show on the second […]
Four 17-year-old high school girls were arrested for prostitution at a central Bangkok hotel. They told police they engaged in prostitution because they wanted money to go out at night. BANGKOK – September 7, 2012 [PDN]: at 8:30 p.m., four girls engaged in prostitution were arrested by more than 10 police officers from the Children […]
BANGKOK, Sept 7 – Thailand’s Armed Forces Development Command continued dredging Bangkok’s canals, with work expected to finish later this month. The work, which began Aug 31, has so far done about 200 metres of the 22-kilometre Klong Lat Phrao. Read more: MCOT
An ambitious crime-fighting project would flood the streets of Bangkok with 1,000,000 surveillance cameras within three years. Residents will have to pay between 100 to 200 baht a month to help finance the “Miracle Eyes” project. When crimes occur in that city, police officers rush to examine CCTV footage for evidence to obtain information and […]
A man, believed to be Russian, was seriously injured after jumping from the third floor of the passengers’ terminal of Suvarnabhumi Airport on Thursday. Suvarnabhumi Airport police station was alerted at 8.30am that a foreigner had leapt from the third floor of the terminal to the ground. Read more: The Nation
A woman who was suffering from depression is believed to have fed herself to the crocodiles at a popular tourist attraction in Thailand. The 36-year-old Thai woman told her husband that she was going to see a doctor and would then go to popular Crocodile Farm in Samut Prakarn just outside Bangkok. Read more: dailymail.co.uk
BANGKOK, 4 September 2012 (NNT) – The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) has begun testing its Red Line train system in the first section from Bang Sue to Taling Chan before it is officially open for use late this year. According to Acting SRT Governor Viroj Triampongpan, the newly-constructed Red Line is 7 kilometers in […]
Many groups of protesters gathered at the Government House on Tuesday, with several of them occupying Rajdamnoen Road and causing traffic congestion. The first group, comprising some 1,000 protesters from the National Municipal League of Thailand and Subdistrict Administration Organisation Association of Thailand arrived at 8.30am and gathered near the Government House on Rajdamnoen Road. […]
