The Southern Bangkok Criminal Court yesterday ordered the Immigration Bureau to immediately release and pay a small sum of damages to an injured Burmese worker held in a locked cell at the Bangkok Police Hospital. Chalee Diyoo, 33, had been locked in a room in the hospital for more than two weeks, during which time […]
A bomb like object was left in front of Bangkok shopping mall, leading to bomb scare. Police were alerted that a bomb-like object was spotted in front of The One Park shopping mall on Phaholyothin Road in Chatuchak district at 7:30 am. Police rushed to the scene and found an object, which looked like a […]
Condom vending machines have been removed from Bangkok-based schools supervised by the city administration following complaints from parents who cited necessary provocation of sexual interests to students as the reason, deputy city clerk Pheeraphong Saichua said yesterday. Vending machines at two public parks Suan Rommaneenart and Suan Saranrom where male and female streetwalkers regularly do […]
The yellow shirts yesterday resisted a police order for them to vacate public roads around Government House where they have camped out for weeks. The People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) yesterday said the order No 2 of the Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) was unconstitutional as it had been issued with […]
THAILAND’S ANTI-GOVERNMENT Red Shirts are planning a major rally tomorrow at Bangkok’s criminal court to demand the release of their detained leaders, highlighting how tensions continue to dog political life in the country. Prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has said there will be elections in the first half of this year if there is no fresh […]
Man Arrested with Weapons near Yellow Shirts Rally Site The Bangkok Metropolitan Police have arrested a man in possession of a rifle with scope and 150 rounds of ammunition close to the rally site of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD). The man claimed he was going hunting for animals with the rifle. TAN Network
BANGKOK, Feb 11 — The People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), also known as the Yellow Shirt movement, marched from its rally site at Makkhawan Bridge on Rajdamnern Nok Avenue to the capital’s Royal Plaza to make an oath of allegiance to the monarchy and country at the King Chulalongkorn Equestrian Statue before returning to its […]
Airport authorities in Bangkok yesterday (Feb. 9) stopped a man attempting to board a plane with some unusual luggage in tow — three suitcases stuffed full of live animals. The bags were crammed with pythons, boa constrictors, squirrels, spiders, lizards, frogs, a parrot and more than 100 tortoises — including one of the world’s rarest, […]
