The parents of a 28-year-old woman from Bacolod City who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Thailand asked government officials on Friday to help their daughter. Nede and Florentino Talaban appealed to Bacolod City and Negros Occidental officials to help them seek the release of their daughter Flory May. “We are helpless and clueless on […]
BANGKOK, Jan 6 — Two Romanian suspects were detained in the Thai capital for alleged involvement in a transnational counterfeit electronic ATM card syndicate, Central Investigation Bureau deputy chief Pol Maj Gen Panya Mamen told at a press briefing on Thursday. Vint Danail, 25 and Roatis Sergiu Virgil, 24, were apprehended in Yaowarat, Bangkok’s Chinatown, […]
BANGKOK, Jan 6 – The Thai authorities seized 69 elephant tusks and four other pieces of ivory, worth about Bt10 million (US$330,000) at Suvarnabhumi Airport, according to Prasong Poontaneat, Director-General of the Customs Department. The tusks, weighing about 435 kilogrammes, were found in two boxes at a Thai Airways International warehouse on Wednesday. They were […]
The Airport Link rapid-transit line from central Bangkok to Suvarnabhumi will launch its air check-in service today at Makkasan City Air Terminal, five months after the rail service started last August. Initially, the check-in service will be available only for people flying with Thai Airways International and Bangkok Airways. “Passengers who want to check in […]
Neither the girl involved in the crash or her relatives attended. “There is no contact, message of apology, or even a wreath from them” The under-aged driver of a sedan involved in a tollway crash that left nine van passengers dead will be sent to a home for girls after she acknowledges criminal offences to […]
The 16 year old girl blamed for the fatal tollway accident on Monday has become so stressed out that she asked why she did not die, her mother said yesterday. “Why don’t they take my life? Why don’t I just die?” the girl was quoted as saying. The girl is being treated for injuries at […]
Another victim of the van accident on the Don Mueng Tollway succumbed to her injuries late Wednesday night, raising the death toll to nine. Janjira Suemkrathok, a student of Thammasat University, was pronounced dead at 15 minutes after midnight. The Nation
Police say a 16 year old girl, a minor, was driving the sedan that collided with a passenger van in a horror road accident on an elevated tollway section of the Vibhavadi Rangsit highway on Monday night, killing eight people and injuring six others. They said persons of that age were not entitled to a […]
