Earlier today, a drug-rage man held his wife at knifepoint. He was eventually tasered by the police after an unsuccessful four-hour negotiation. At about 3 A.M., 27-year-old Sakdawut Ngarm-siri, who is a factory worker, took his 39-year-old wife hostage by holding her at knifepoint on a drug rampage in the Rama III area, Bangkok. TAN […]
BANGKOK, April 4 – The Thai capital, Bangkok and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (City Hall, the BMA) is on high alert with increased security measures set for this month’s Songkran festival April 12-15. The BMA’s precautions are meant to prevent any violence after last weekend’s car bomb attacks in Yala and Songkhla, according to a […]
The Rama III Road footpath that collapsed on Monday in Bangkok was probably a combination of two factors: the collapse of a soil-holding wall and water erosion. The section of footpath that collapsed was almost three metres in depth, five metres in width and 22-metres long and stretches from Soi 21 to 23 in Bang […]
Thai police have arrested a wanted Italian mafia boss after he flew to Bangkok airport, Italian media said Saturday. Vito Roberto Palazzolo, from Terrasini near the Sicilian capital Palermo and considered to be a leading member of the Cosa Nostra Sicilian mafia for whom he laundered money, was arrested on Friday. Read more: Bangkok Post
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) yesterday revealed that about 83 per cent of the smuggling of cold medicine with pseudoephedrine happened through Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport, while the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering ending imports of the cold medicine after one year. DSI chief Tharit Pengdit spoke yesterday at a seminar on the […]
BANGKOK, 31 March 2012 (NNT) – Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International Airport is set to start utilizing the automatic passport check system before the Songkran holidays start. Suvarnabhumi Airport’s Deputy General Manager, Flying Officer Narongchai Tanadchangsaeng, said that the Immigration Department will start opening a number of automatic channels, which offer automatic passport check service, from April […]
Bangkok hosts 20 per cent of the drug abuse in the country, as the capital is a delivery, storage and pickup point for narcotic rackets, according to a seminar hosted yesterday by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. “Ice” flakes, or methamphetamine, have become increasingly popular among young people in Bangkok, especially students aged 15-19, said the […]
BANGKOK, 30 March 2012 (NNT) – Airports of Thailand (AoT) chairman ACM Sumet Phomanee says the AoT will make Bangkok Suvarnabhumi airport (SVB) a major aviation center of Southeast Asia while Don Mueang will become an airport for low cost airlines. According to ACM Sumet, Suvarnabhumi will be operated in full service ready to accommodate […]
