Bangkok – A former sex worker has won first prize in a Thai literary contest for her book about her life in Thailand, Hong Kong and Japan, media reports said Wednesday. Thanadda Sawangduean, 42, won the women writers’ Chommanard Book Prize for her recently published autobiography I am Eri: My Experience Overseas, an account of […]
BANGKOK, Dec 22 — Two Royal Thai Air Force C-130 transport aircraft are expected to land at the Subang Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) Base, near Kuala Lumpur Wednesday afternoon to return Thai nationals who died and those who were injured in the tragic bus accident in Ipoh Monday. Thai Foreign Ministry Department of Information […]
The national police chief has announced a new anti drug offensive that includes extreme punishment being handed out to officers found to be colluding with drug trafficking rings or gambling machine operators. National Police Chief, Police General Wichien Pojphosri held a meeting with senior officers, and is urging them to step up efforts to combat […]
Kuala Lumpur – Twenty-six Thai tourists were killed and 11 seriously injured Monday when their bus overturned while travelling from a Malaysian mountain resort in the northern state of Perak. The bus hit a road divider and overturned, killing 22 passengers at the scene, the official Bernama news agency reported, quoting police sources. Another four […]
BANGKOK, 19 December 2010 (NNT) – The police force has flunked again. This time it received only 27.8 points, out of 60, in the latest survey conducted by The Crime Reporters Poll. The Crime Reporters Association of Thailand has just revealed the results of its poll on the overall satisfaction of the people towards the […]
A MAN who was critically injured in a road accident in Thailand was due to fly home to his family tonight in time for Christmas. Antony Giles, of Stapleford, was a passenger on his friend’s moped when it was in collision with a car on November 25. He suffered serious injuries to his legs, arm […]
BANGKOK, Dec 16 — Thailand’s Court of Appeal’s on Thursday upheld a Criminal Court ruling to extradite two British nationals to face trial in the United States on charges of conspiring to smuggle and resell anabolic steroids in the US and European countries. The two accused identified as Edwin Richard Crawley and Ashley Vincent Livingston […]
Red Shirts and violent uprisings may have dominated the news from Thailand in the first half of 2010, but it seems it will take more than two months of bloody protests to put tourists off visiting. The southeast Asian nation is celebrating after announcing a 12.6 per cent rise in visitor numbers for the year […]
