The overloaded Immigration Bureau is seeking police outside its organisation to help with passport checks at Suvarnabhumi airport. It is also asking passengers to arrive well ahead of their boarding times to ensure they will not miss their flights. Pol Maj Gen Natthorn Phrosunthorn, chief of Immigration Division 2 plans to deploy 70 female riot […]
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
Thai police raided and shut down an illegal beauty clinic at Supalai building in Nonthaburi Province. The clinic relies mostly on the internet to market its services, claiming to provide treatments with immediate results at affordable prices. In an undercover sting operation, the police sent in an agent to pose as a potential client at […]
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
BANGKOK, March 10 – A second foreign tourist, a Russian man, died from Thurday night’s fire at Grand Park Avenue Hotel Sukhumvit Soi 22, according to the capital’s Kluaynamthai Hospital. Mr Asato Igor Badera’s death on Saturday morning was believed to result from smoke inhalation and lack of oxygen to the brain. Read more: MCOT
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 […]
Two foreigners are reported to have died after a fire broke out at the Grand Mercure Park Avenue Hotel on Soi Sukhumvit 22 in Klong Toey district last night. The fire was reported around 9.40pm. Thong Lor police suspected the blaze started at a seminar room on the fifth floor of the 18-storey building before […]
A fire broke out at the Grand Park Avenue Hotel in Bangkok, killing one person and injuring 10 others, police said. The fire broke out on the fourth floor of the 15-storey hotel on Soi Sukhumvit 22 at 9:50 pm. Read more: The Nation
