A 30-year-old jewellery shop owner was found shot dead in a new sports Mercedes-Benz left in a two-rai carpark off Rama III Road in Bangkok yesterday morning. The man was identified as Hamad Muhamed. Police from the Bang Phongphang police station found in the car a damaged mobile phone, methamphetamines (ice), and equipment for smoking […]
Two Filipinos were arrested for allegedly drugging several tourists to steal their valuables at Bangkok attractions, while a Cambodian man and a Vietnamese man were arrested for pick-pocketing, Tourist Police Division Commander Pol Maj Gen Adis Ngamjitsuksri told a press conference Saturday. Following complaints filed by Japanese tourists that they were drugged and robbed by […]
BANGKOK, Dec 23 – Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra on Friday announced that the flood situation in all districts of Bangkok has ended, and the capital is completely flood-free. According to reports from all districts, the flooding in the entire capital has returned to normal, the governor said, adding that relevant workers in Bangkok’s drainage and […]
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has removed all of the 1,325 dummy closed-circuit security cameras which had been installed throughout the capital city, Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra said on Thursday. MR Sukhumbhand said this while inspecting the removal of the last dummy cameras at Victory Monument today with his deputy Thirachon Manomaipiboon. Read more: Bangkok […]
About 100 metropolitan police raided a heavily guarded casino in Taopoon area on Bangkok’s Techawanich road in Bang Sue district early this morning and arrested 199 gamblers. The raid, which began at 4.30am, was led by Pol Lt-Gen Winai Thongsong, the metropolitan police chief, Pol Maj-Gen Saroj Promcharoen, his deputy, and Pol Maj-Gen Wichai Sangprapai, […]
SAMUT PRAKAN, Dec 20 – An Indian national has arrested with about three kilogrammes of ketamine at Suvarnabhumi Airport, according to the Customs Department. Mohamed Iliyas Rawther Mohamed Rabeek, 24, was arrested with some three kilogrammes of ketamine including its package weight, worth about Bt350,000, Customs Department deputy director general Thanat Suwatthanamethakul told a news […]
The Royal Thai Police Office will ask for help from the military to ensure law and order in Bangkok during the New Year festival, police spokesman Pol Maj-Gen Piya Uthayo said on Monday. Border Patrol Police units would also be asked to help the metropolitan police ensure the safety of New Year celebrations in the […]
The month-long inundation and overflowing Chao Phraya River in Bangkok has caused an old wall at Wat Arun Rajwararam or the Temple of Dawn to partially cave in, which is threatening the stability of the ancient pagoda. The cavein, about two metres in length and about half a metre wide, is no more than 10 […]
