Police Wednesday issued a summons for a Suvarnabhumi C7 customs official at the centre of a widely circulated video clip showing him in the act of assaulting an airport security check officer while refusing to be patted down. Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport superintendent Colonel Nattanan Nanasombat said Sombat Chatchaiyawit, 55, had seven days to respond to […]
A deputy police chief accepts there are presence of new groups of mafias at the Chatuchak Market, but they have not conducted any illegal activities so far. Deputy national police chief Police General Panupong Singhara today held a meeting with senior officers from the Metropolitan Police Bureau to draft security measures for Chatuchak Market after […]
Protesters blocked the frontage road of the outbound Vibhavadi-Rangsit Monday afternoon after their demand for the government to cancel the plan to increase NGV price is not met. Yu Jiayuenyongpong, chief advisor of the Central Transport Association of Thailand, said the association decided to block the road as part of the measure to pressure the […]
Taxi drivers unhappy with the government’s plan to increase the prices of natural gas have agreed to call off their protest. The government has promised to issue them 4-months’ worth of discount coupons to help alleviate the financial burden of increased prices. Meanwhile, their cargo truck counterparts are still not satisfied with the government’s answer […]
A human leg was found in dense grasses near Bangkok’s Rama II Road yesterday, police said. An orange sterile bag was found near the leg. Police suspected the leg had been severed – possibly by a saw or a knife – less than 24 hours prior to the discovery because it had not yet decomposed. […]
Bangkok police seized 73 kg of crystal methamphetamine worth more than 200 million THB at the Southern bus station. The suspects were caught on CCTV. Bangkok, January 4, 2012 [PDN]; Metropolitan Police Bureau, Pol. Lt. Gen. Vinai Thongsong, Commissioner, Pol. Maj. Gen. Saroj Promcharoen, and Deputy Commissioner, Pol. Maj. Gen. Pisit Pisutsak, Talingshan police station, […]
Police have issued a summons for the driver of a public-transport van that crashed into a semi-trailer in Samut Prakan’s Bang Bo district Friday morning, killing six passengers and injuring seven. The driver, who fled the scene of the crash, has been ordered to report to police investigators by Monday. Driver Somboon Thachalard, 39, fled […]
Crime Suppression Division (CSD) arrested a gang of African “black money” swindlers who cheated a Bangkok hotel owner out of 200,000 THB. Crime Suppression Division, January 4, 2012 [PDN]; Pol. Col. Piya Charoensuk, and Pol. Lt. Col. Kanapat Phahumanto with police team arrested Mr. Dorbor Tarnue age 37, Liberian national and Mr. George Emmanuel age […]
