BANGKOK, 26 December 2010 (NNT) – Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has admitted that Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawattra is living in Dubai, but reiterated that he would not allow the former Prime Minister to be involved in any political movements. In light of reports that a group of Phue Thai party members have gone to […]
NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 26 – A suspect from Thailand was arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on Saturday night with 19.5 kg of illegal ivory. Police intercepted her on routine patrol while she was checking into a Kenya Airways flight at 11.30pm with 105 pieces of ivory bangles, necklaces and raw ivory while […]
Chon Buri — Tourist Police early Saturday arrested an Australian man, who was accused of molesting two boys aged 14-15 at a rented room in Chon Buri’s Bang Lamung district along with 23 pornographic VCDs of boys. Following a tip-off that a foreigner was to bring minors for molestation at the rented room, police staked […]
Brussels, Dec 25 (DPA) Pirates early Saturday seized the MV Thor Nexus general cargo ship in the Indian Ocean with its crew of 27 Thai nationals, the European Union’s Atalanta mission reported. The EU Naval Force (NAVFOR) Operation Atalanta said that the 20,377-ton Thai-owned and flagged vessel was pirated about 450 nautical miles northeast of […]
Huge quantity of drugs and weapons seized in simultaneous crackdowns Bangkok police yesterday made multiple arrests and seized a large volume of narcotics in several simultaneous raids yesterday, the start of the month’s deadline the government has given the police force to crackdown on drug traffickers. Some 696 people were arrested as part of raids […]
A Hollywood shoot was halted after Ewan McGregor received a death threat in verse from his stand-in. The star was in Thailand filming The Impossible, about the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, when the man was found in his trailer writing a death ode. It included a line about the author facing McGregor, 39, “twisting the […]
Thai Airways International on December 21 yesterday cancelled flights from Bangkok to London because of adverse weather conditions at Heathrow Airport. It also announced it would increase domestic flights during the New Year season. A limited number of flights are being allowed to operate to and from London. Therefore, priority for flight departures will be […]
BANGKOK, 22 December 2010 (NNT) – The National Disaster Warning Center has reassured the public that the center follows the international standard warning procedures and that they shall be warned ahead of natural disasters. Group Captain Somsak Kowsuwan, Director of the National Disaster Warning Center, vowed that even though movements of the earth’s surface cannot […]
