A Nigerian man was arrested at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport along with two kilograms of crystal meth, which was reportedly bound for Malaysia, police said Tuesday. Acting upon a tip-off that a Nigerian man will transport crystal meth from Ethiopia through Thailand to Malaysia, police searched the 22-year-old suspect Ejike Cornnelius Onho and found two […]
Two Nigerian have been arrested in Bangkok after police found 13 kilogramms of cocaine with one of them. Initially police arrested Nigerian national Chika Cletus Onwukwe, 30, in Sai Mai district after police found 13kgs of cocaine in his Toyota Yaris car at the mount of Soi Phaholyothin 58. He arrested in a sting operation. […]
BANGKOK, Jan 31 – Thai police arrested a Nigerian woman arriving at Suvarnabhumi Airport with a large amount of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ice, worth Bt9 million (US$300,000). Jennifer Chinenye Nwankuuo, 28, left Nairobi by Kenya Airlines and was arrested with three kilogrammes of ice and cash in US$1,950 (Bt58,500) and 5,935 naira (US$39 […]
Under the Constitution, Thai citizens are duty-bound to uphold and safeguard democracy, yet speculation persists about another power seizure. People here talk about the coup like it’s the common cold, even though military intervention can snuff out democracy. The last coup took place in September 2006, and soon after the December 2007 election, held to […]
Ex-PAD member’s plan to unite yellows, reds against govt can be laughed away The “unthinkable” had become “implausible” lately and on Friday it was upgraded to just “unlikely”. Chaiwat Sinsuwong, a key member of a splinter group of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), still has some way to go before his ambition to get […]
The Thai government’s crackdown on “red shirt” protesters last spring was planned nearly four years in advance and modelled on the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, a report contends, saying Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva approved military force against unarmed civilians. The report also alleged two Bangkok hospitals colluded with the Thai government to cremate bodies of […]
The Appeals Court Friday commuted the jail term of convicted Canadian paedophile from six years to five years and four months. The court upheld the guilty ruling of Christopher Paul Neil, 35, an English-language teacher. Neil was convicted in luring a nine-year-old boy to have sex with him at his room in Bangkok’s Din Daeng […]
An assistant undertaker at Wat Phai Ngern Chotanaram has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for conspiring to hide and dispose of 2,002 aborted foetuses. The sentencing followed charges laid after the discovery of thousands of foetus remains at the Bangkok temple in November last year. The South Bangkok Criminal Court yesterday sentenced Suchart […]
