BANGKOK, March 19 – A section of Rama IV reopened to traffic Monday morning after a five-metre stretch and one-metre-deep crater was repaired, with municipal engineering specialists scrambling to determine the cause of the unexpected road subsidence. The crater was filled with asphalt and sheet metal, with the work finishing about 3am Monday, in time […]
BANGKOK, March 17 – Three suspects were arrested by Thai authorities with 2.5 million methamphetamine pills and 50 kg of crystal meth or ‘ice’ were seized on the departure level of Suvarnabhumi airport in Samut Prakan. Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubumrung, in his capacity as the Director of the National Command Center for Drugs (NCCD), […]
A taxi driver has returned 540 baht weight (8.2 kilogrammes) of gold worth more than 13 million baht to the passenger who mistakenly left it in his cab, police said on Friday. Taxi driver Saksri Kesseekaew, 56, told police that he was worried after he discovered a bag full of gold jewellery left in his […]
BANGKOK, March 16 – An ethnic Hmong drug smuggling suspect on Friday was taken from Lampang to Royal Thai Police Headquarters in the capital for further investigation after being arrested on Thursday with two million methamphetamine pills in the northern province. Police Chief Pol Gen Prewpan Dhamapong told a news briefing about Thursday’s arrest of […]
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has ordered that all low-cost airlines move to Don Mueang Airport to improve air and runway traffic at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi, but the plan is unlikely to ease the current turmoil frustrating countless travellers. The shift of low-cost carriers to Don Mueang was announced by Deputy Prime Minister and Tourism and Sports […]
The Bangkok metropolitan police hold a press conference announcing the confiscation of narcotics and weapons in drug raids. In citywide drug raids by the Metropolitan Police Bureau, police arrested 161 suspects for dealing drugs, 178 suspects for drug possession, 609 suspected drug users, five suspects for illegal possession of firearms and seized more than 88,000 […]
The fire-damaged Grand Park Avenue Hotel in Bangkok’s Sukhumvit Soi 22 was found to have neither fire exits nor a smoke blocking system. Side windows in the hotel rooms of the dead Russian tourists were locked and could not let smoke out, according to the initial findings of a committee.Two guests died in the blaze […]
BANGKOK, 14 March 2012 (NNT) – Chulalongkorn University is prepared to demolish Lido Theater in Bangkok and transform the area into a new shopping mall. According to the University’s Property Management Office, an area of around 7-8 rai surrounding Lido Theater will be transformed into a new shopping mall after leases granted to Lido and […]
