BANGKOK, Feb2 (TNA) – Bangkok police on Tuesday said they will question a taxi driver whose vehicle and personal images were captured by a closed circuit television (CCTV) camera who is believed to have witnessed the dramatic catapulting of bags of human waste and putrid fermented fish into the compound of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s […]
Police yesterday seized 1.6 million ya ba tablets and 2 kilograms of “ice” together worth about Bt30 million from a townhouse in Samut Prakan’s Muang district. The huge haul was the latest in a series of drug raids over the past week that have netted more than 2.8 million methamphetamine pills. Yesterday’s raid was a […]
BANGKOK, Jan 29 (TNA) – A Pakistani man was arrested by Thai customs officials at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport Friday with 90 packets–almost one kg–heroin in his stomach. Ahmad Shabbir was arrested during immigration procedures when customs officers believed him to be acting suspiciously and required him to pass through an X-ray scanner, finding many […]
BANGKOK, Jan 19 (TNA) – The Red Shirt anti-government United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) announced Tuesday it is considering a protest at the entrance of Suvarnabhumi Airport as part of its movement against the government. Thepthai Senpong, spokesman for Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, said there is a high possibility of violence during the […]
BANGKOK, 18 January 2010 (NNT) – The Airports of Thailand Plc (AOT) has unveiled the official logo for Suvarnabhumi Airport which portrays the prosperity of the airport and its ambition to become leader in the air transport business. The logo was selected from over 600 entries in a design contest recently organized by the AOT […]
Police have arrested three African men for allegedly planning a scam which they claimed would generate huge profits from gold mining operations in Russia’s Siberia. Liberians John William and Elvis Silye Chiketon and Cameroonian Egen Sagoh were arrested last Thursday in a sting in which they sold smuggled gold pellets worth US$25,000 to an undercover […]
BANGKOK – THAILAND’S ‘red shirt’ movement will hold a week-long protest in Bangkok from mid-February, one of its leader said on Thursday, taking aim at unelected elites it says have long dominated the country’s political landscape. Although the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) would continue targeting advisers to the country’s revered monarchy, it […]
BANGKOK, Dec 20 (TNA) — Thai authorities have apprehended two foreign men in the capital and charged them with allegedly possessing heroin, said Somchai Sujjapongse, director-general of the Customs Department. Raza Mahtab, 21, of Pakistan was nabbed early Saturday upon arrival at Suvarnabhumi international airport from Islamabad after customs officials found about 619 grammes of […]
