Bangkok Don Muang Airport is moving its domestic flight operation to the revamped Terminal 1 starting August 1 as it is believed to be more efficient and can facilitate some 16 million passengers per year. The Airports of Thailand’s Don Muang Airport Director Wing Commander Pratheep Wichittho said that the 13-million baht revamp of Don […]
BANGKOK, July 28 – A Malian man on Thursday was detained at Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi Airport for smuggling three kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ‘ice, valued at Bt10.5 million (US$350,000), according to customs officers. Demba Dabo, a Malian national, was apprehended with three kilogrammes of ‘ice’ hidden in car shafts and automotive spare parts […]
BANGKOK, July 25 – Narcotics Suppression Bereau police on Monday arrested four foreigners smuggling drugs worth over Bt9 million. Two Iranian men, Reza Mirzaei, 24, and Ghodrat Jabbari, 46, were apprehended at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi international airport with 1,800 grammes of crystal meth or ‘ice’, worth an estimated Bt5.4 million in value, hidden in spray bottles […]
A lobby group has voiced opposition to construction of the Skywalk – the walkways below the Skytrain – by Bangkok officials, claiming it is a waste of money. Anti-Global Warming Association head Srisuwan Chanya said yesterday a public forum on the project wouldn’t be well rounded, as in the past the city had only surveyed […]
Bangkok Police have arrested a 23-year-old hacker who allegedly stole more than 500,000 baht from internet bankers. Officers from the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) arrested Akaphan Gummanoi at a house in Soi Maiyalap on Ram Intra Road late on Friday night for allegedly robbing Siam Commercial Bank accounts. Police confiscated two computers from the […]
According to many experts, the capital of Thailand is in danger of being submerged by waters. The Thai government does not seem to realize the urgency of the situation. BANGKOK – Day after day, Bangkok sinks. Inexorably. The most pessimistic experts are afraid part of Thailand’s capital will be submerged by 2030. Specialists complain about […]
A Sripathum University student lost control of the car he was driving while reaching for a cell phone and fatally hit a street sweeper in Bangkok’s Don Muang district Tuesday morning, police say Arriving at the scene on inbound Vibhavadi-Rangsit road at 6.30am, they found fourth-year student Worakorn Limplew and the dead body of city […]
A Gambian man was arrested along with 3.1 kilogram of crystal meth at the Suvarnabhumi Airport yesterday morning, Narcotics Suppression Bureau Commander Pol Lt Gen Atithep Panchamanon told a press conference. Following the tip-off that some Gambian national was hired to smuggle drugs into Thailand via the airport, police stake out until the spotted the […]
