CHON BURI, June 12 — Police have arrested an Iranian man and charged him with production and possession of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ‘ice’, in the Thai capital of Bangkok, police said. Police said 39-year-old Ahmad Hassan Ghashgaei was apprehended at his condominium room on the outskirts of Bangkok while he was allegedly producing […]
BANGKOK, June 11 — Thai police have arrested two foreign men — a Nigerian and a Ghanaian – and charged them with drug possession and trafficking, police said. Police said they apprehended a 36-year-old Nigerian man identified as Michael Ankrah and Yeboh Eric, 38, of Ghana in front of a house in Bangkok’s Hua Mark […]
The People’s Alliance for Democracy will on Friday’s morning organise a march from Lumpini Park to Silom Road in order to raise awareness on the no vote campaign, police said, warning motorists to avoid the route from 11.00 am to noon. “The traffic from Rama IV Road to Silom will be partially closed by two […]
BANGKOK, 10 June 2011 (NNT) – The Moviemov-Italian Film Festival 2011 has already kicked off with 15 quality films being put on screen free of charge until 12 June 2011 at SFX Cinema Emporium in Bangkok. The festival is organised as part of the celebrations on 150 years of Italian unification. The 15 selected films […]
BANGKOK, 7 June 2011 (NNT) – The capital of Thailand is rated second as the city with the highest living costs in ASEAN, according the 2011 cost of living survey of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) of the Economist Magazine. It was found that Singapore had the highest living cost in the ASEAN region and […]
Thai travelers, foreign diplomats and BOI investors will be among the first to use the automatic passport inspection system to be installed at Thailand’s largest international airport this year. Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport has invested more than 76 million baht on an automatic “E-Pass” passport inspection system to address the problems of overcrowding at the immigration […]
BANGKOK, June 4 – A drug dealer was arrested in Pathumthani province in possession of 786,000 methamphetamines worth over Bt100 million in street value, two pick-up trucks and Bt3-million cash. Thailand’s national police chief Gen Wichean Potephosree on Saturday said Aniwat Sae-Lew was arrested by Metropolitan Police Bureau while he was delivering the meth to […]
Bangkok – Bangkok airport customs officials confiscated 451 turtles and seven baby gavials that had been packed in suitcases on a flight from Dhaka to Bangkok, officials said Thursday. Suvarnabhumi International Airport customs officials on Wednesday found the animals stuffed in four suitcases that had been abandoned at the luggage carousels. Read more: Monsters and […]
