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 […]
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 […]
