Thai Immigration Police arrested two foreign fugitives for child molestation, one American and one Briton, in two separate incidents, police said Wednesday. The American national, Allen Mingchai Hayes, 39, was apprehended on Bangkok’s Wireless Road on Tuesday for offences he allegedly committed in the US before fleeing to Thailand in 2004, said Immigration Bureau’s Investigation […]
Thai Pregnant students will be given the choice of continuing with their studies or resuming after delivery once the Reproductive Health Protection Act takes effect, the Education Ministry said yesterday. The Cabinet approved the draft law on Tuesday and it is now being forwarded to the Council of State for review, after which the Cabinet […]
Hua Hin police were notified of the murder of a foreign national on December 13th. The discovery was made in a locked room at Prasopchok Guesthouse on Petchkasem Road, it appears the deceased had been there for at least a week. Mr Christopher Schnitzer, a 67 year old Swiss national was found with head and […]
Former prime minister-turned-fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra made world headlines again. This time, he has been invited to Washington by the US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) to address human rights issues in Thailand, in particular the state’s brutal crackdown on red-shirt protesters during March-May this year that left 91 people dead, mostly civilians, […]
Public Health Ministry regions across the country yesterday were declared compulsory helmet-wearing zones to promote safety and reduce fatalities caused by motorcycle accidents, said Deputy Minister Pannasiri Kullanartsiri. The move is aimed at promoting the Decade of Action for Road Safety – from 2011 to 2020 – after reports indicated 11,000 people were killed in […]
Fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday called during the Pheu Thai party meeting to boost the moral of the MPs after Sunday’s disappointing by-election outcome, party officials said. Thaksin told the MPs that he was confident Pheu Thai would win more than half the House seats at the next general election. He said he […]
The head of the Department of Special Investigation disputed claims yesterday by a Pheu Thai MP adisputed claims a red-shirt activist made to the Japanese Embassy in Bangkok on the death of a Japanese photographer during the anti-government rallies earlier this year. DSI director-general Tharit Pengdit, as chief investigator into the shooting, said initial verification […]
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 13 (UPI) — The global economic crisis was the apparent force behind a 22 percent surge in opium poppy cultivation in Southeast Asia in 2010, a U.N. report indicated. The report, released Monday, said the potential production value rose by $100 million from 2009 to $219 million. “Poverty and instability are two […]
