A bus Friday ran over and killed a transvestite, who was shove into a Bangkok street by a homeless man during a small fight over a bag of snacks in the victim’s hands. “I saw them fighting over the bag,” the bus’s fare collector Napassorn Cherdpetcharat said. Read more: The Nation
Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra on Thursday ordered officials to monitor flood-risk areas after heavy rains triggered floods on several roads in the city in the morning, reports said. MR Sukhumbhand directed all district offices to prepare for flash floods due to excessive rainfall, especially in the Ekamai, Thonglor and Sukhumvit areas as well as […]
BANGKOK, July 12 – An Iranian man was detained at Thailand’s main international airport for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine, known as ‘ice,’ valued at Bt14 million (some US$466,000), a Thai senior customs officer said on Thursday. Rasoul Boroumand, a 34-year-old Iranian, was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi Airport Wednesday night with packaged crystal meth, weighing some 3,980 […]
A Japanese woman is suing a well-known Bangkok private hospital for 82 million BHT for serious burns she suffered from an emergency machine while giving birth to her third child at the hospital. BANGKOK – July 9, 2012 [PDN]; At the case-consideration room 814 of Civil Court, Ratchadapisek road, the court made an appointment to […]
Red-shirt leaders have cancelled plans to rally their supporters at the Constitution Court Friday while waiting for a court ruling on the constitutionality of charter amendments. Korkaew Pikulthong, Natthawut Saikua and Jatuporn Promphan, three red-shirt leaders, announced Tuesday that the red-shirt people would not rally at the court but would wait for the ruling at […]
BANGKOK, 10 July 2012 (NNT) – The Department of Special Investigation has concluded that the so-called “Men in Black” were not involved in the case of the CentralWorld Bangkok shopping-complex fire in May 2010. DSI chief Tharit Pengdit said that two charges stemmed from incidents at CentralWorld during the political crisis in March-May 2010 are […]
BANGKOK, 8 July 2012 (NNT) – The operator of Suvarnabhumi Airport has confirmed that the recently-repaired west runway has been reopened for service. Airports of Thailand (AOT) President Flying Officer Anirut Thanomkulbutra said on Saturday that the damage found on the 19R runway on the west side of Suvarnabhumi Airport, identified on July 5th, was […]
Bangkok Immigration police arrested two Thai men who were caught trying to smuggle a large group of Afghanistan men through Suvarnabhumi Airport. The men confessed to being part of a human trade organization with reported ties to the Taliban that had intended to transport the men to Australia. Read more: Pattayadailynews.com
