Immigration Police Get Tough on Alien Beggars and Pickpokets at Weekend Market

Bangkok Immigration Police have launched a crackdown on immigrant beggars and pickpockets who pray on distracted shoppers at the famous Chatuchak weekend open-air market. Thirteen suspects have been arrested, blacklisted and to be expatriated back to their home countries. The Immigration Police raided the Chatuchak (JJ) Weekend Market on Saturday. Read more: TAN Network

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Four teens arrested in Bangkok fatal stabbing

Police arrested four youth aged 15-18 at Bangkok’s Din Daeng Flat for allegedly robbing and killing a Chon Buri hotel employee at the mouth of Soi Sukhumvit 51, Metropolitan Police chief Winai Thongsong told a press conference yesterday. Police identified former drug suspect Sitthichai Khoraya, 18, from security-camera footage. Read more: The Nation

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Fire-ravaged hotel may be illegally modified

BANGKOK, March 9 – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is investigating the possibility that the fire-ravaged Grand Park Avenue Hotel in Bangkok’s prime tourist area of Sukhumvit was permitted to modify its car park into a function room–where the fire broke out. Deputy Bangkok Governor Theerachon Manomaipiboon said today as he inspected the hotel in […]

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