Students in Bangkok linked to drug network

Two recently graduated Bangkok students have been arrested with 806,000 yaba tablets, and 1.5 kilograms of “ice” in their possession, Metropolitan Police Area 9 chief Ratsadakorn Yingyong said yesterday. The police investigation was a follow up from last year’s bust of a Taiwanese drug-dealing network, in which Karan Saeheng, in his 20s, was identified as […]

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New luggage scanners, bomb detectors installed at Suvarnabhumi Airport

BANGKOK, 13 June 2012 (NNT) – The Airports of Thailand (AoT) is ready to open its new luggage checking system on the east side of Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport’s passenger terminal in order to accelerate the immigration process. Suvarnabhumi Airport Director Somchai Sawasdipol said the airport has recently installed several high-technology luggage scanners at a new […]

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Bangkok acid-attack claims spring up on Internet

An urban legend about a serial acid attacker has emerged on social media and been spread quickly among Thai netizens, with five incidents alleged to have occurred in Bangkok since last month. The most detailed account came from a woman identified merely as Tao, who claimed to have been attacked twice on the night of […]

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