BANGKOK, Aug 26- The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has been bracing for possible flood and the water run-off from the North. Speaking during a seminar on water management strategies for related civil societies on Sunday, Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra said that flood prevention work was underway. Read more: MCOT
The Opposition has demanded the Yingluck government strictly enforce the law after Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva was blocked from joining a political seminar in Samut Prakan yesterday by more than 100 red shirts. Abhisit was due to officially open a seminar organised by the party entitled “Assemblies join forces to design Thailand”. Read more: […]
BANGKOK, Aug 24 – A drug dealer was killed Friday in an exchange of gunfire with police and one million methamphetamine pills with a street value of about Bt300 million were confiscated. Anti-narcotics police raided a house in the Bangkok suburb of Sai Mai after tracking drug trafficker Suthee Suwanyusiri, who was on his way […]
A tour bus driver left 24 Chinese tourists stranded at Bangkok’s Snake Garden when he drove the bus away. The abandoned bus was found later, with no sign of the driver. The tourists reported 10,000 baht and a Canon camera was taken from the bus. Read more: Pattayadailynews.com
A 30 year old woman was arrested at Bangkok’s Mor Chit transporting 200,000 meth pills worth Bt50 million from Nakhon Phanom to Bangkok. Read more: MCOT
A man wearing a monk’s robe was set on fire by a man who is probably mentally ill at a bus stop at Victory Monument around dawn on Thursday, police said. The victim, Yanyong Ithikul, 60, was severely burned when police found him and was rushed to hospital. Read more: Bangkok Post
Car crash at Y intersection, falls from Ramintra – Artnarong Expressway, near Jutichote entrance. The driver, an unidentified man, was seriously injured and hospitalised. MCOT
Three Uzbekistan women were arrested in Bangkok’s Nana district for tricking Uzbekistan girls into prostitution. One victim told police that she had been promised a restaurant job in Russia. But instead she was transported to Thailand and forced into prostitution. Read more: Pattayadailynews.com
