Police yesterday arrested the alleged owner of a large haul of illegal drugs found last week in a rented Bangkok home, along with an Army major who allegedly provided the drug suspect with a military permit allowing him to drive through police checkpoints. Niphon Kanchart, 54, was arrested yesterday morning at a housing estate in […]
A suspected drug dealer who killed a vendor while escaping from a police chase was shot dead in a raid on his hideout today. Last Saturday, suspected drug dealer Somchai Eiampaichit killed 53-year-old female vendor at the Chatuchak Market to get her motorcycle to escape after being pursued by the police. TAN Network
After jumping from the second floor of his blazing home in Chatuchak district yesterday, a Thai Airways pilot ran right back into the inferno to rescue his wife – but was engulfed by flames and died even as she saved herself by also leaping. Police found Narong Tantijattananont, 53, burned to death with a fire […]
Police are on 24-hour security watch at tourist locations and places of foreign interest in Bangkok as officers investigate supposed links between an arrested Lebanese man and terrorist plots. Security has been heightened at various locations including Khao San Road, commercial areas of Sukhumvit Road, the Israeli embassy and the American School of Bangkok in […]
As Thais of Chinese descent celebrate Chinese New Year this weekend, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) yesterday dispatched security officers to guard 35 locations around the capital, while Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra participated in a ceremony believed to ward off bad luck to celebrate the auspicious occasion. The Bank of Thailand (BOT) has made available […]
BANGKOK, Jan 21 — Over 2 million methamphetamine pills, 30 kg of crystal metaphetamine or ice, and 20 kg of heroin worth billions of baht found during police search of a rented house in Pathum Thani. The search came after Highway Police tried to arrest a suspected drug dealer on Friday at Phra-in Racha sluice […]
Five were killed when their pick-up truck hit a tree during their efforts to flee from a car chasing and shooting at them early Friday, police said. A teenager, who was in the chasing Honda car, turned himself to police later in the day but denied that he drove the car and took part in […]
Tourism operators yesterday threatened to march on the US Embassy in Bangkok to meet with the ambassador if the United States refuses to withdraw its terrorism warning for Thailand within two days. “Those concerned operators will join forces to submit their demand to US Ambassador Kristie Kenney to learn more about the impacts of maintaining […]
